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Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Sep
20
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL By David Bianculli
 
 
Eight months ago, in their NFC championship game, the Green Bay Packers were ahead by 12 points when the Seattle Seahawks burst back in the final minutes to tie in regulation, win in overtime, and go on to win Super Bowl XLIX. Now it’s rematch time, in Week 2 of the new NFL season – and Green Bay has the home-field advantage, as well as more motivation than any coach could imagine.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
20
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli
 
 
By the end of last week’s episode, the protagonists of this Walking Dead prequel had been pushed out of their comfort zones – and their homes, and their businesses – by the swelling panic and civil unrest. A visit to the hospital proved fruitless, because health-care facilities were ground zero for the new mayhem – and after all the characters came face to face with at least one zombie (though they didn’t know to call them that, or walkers, just yet), they headed ou
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
20
RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) gives himself a pity party: a going-away bash, when he’s going away against his will, and under fear of retribution from either the Armenian mob or the FBI.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
20
MASTERS OF SEX By David Bianculli
 
 
Here’s a night out you won’t want to miss: Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson (Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan) go out to dinner, at a fancy restaurant, with their research associate Dan Logan (Josh Charles). Along for the meal is a new character we’re meeting for the first time: Dan’s wife (played by guest star Judy Greer). And that makes the table conversation a bit awkward, because she appears there at the invitation of Bill, not of Dan. Bill is angry that Dan is sleeping w
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
'LIFE IN PIECES' AMUSES OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL CBS SITCOM FORMAT By Ed Bark
 
 
Resemblances to Modern Family are purely intentional in CBS’ Life in Pieces, which begins episodes with the printed promise of “One big family. Four short stories. Every week.” CBS has even gone the extra step of making Life in Pieces a single-cam comedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
FOX'S 'MINORITY REPORT' LOOKS GREAT AND PLAYS WELL, TOO By Ed Bark
 
 
Production-wise, Fox’s Minority Report looks handsomer than either Rob Lowe or John Stamos, the venerable hunks fronting the network’s two new fall sitcoms. The two leads and opening story line aren’t bad either...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
NBC'S 'BLINDSPOT' GETS ITS TATTOOS ON By Ed Bark
 
 
Wentworth Miller sported a big batch of tattoos as the jailed Michael Scofield on Fox’s Prison Break. But his body of work can’t nearly match the head-to-toe illustrated woman on NBC’s new drama series Blindspot...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
WHO'S GOING TO WIN AN EMMY ON SUNDAY NIGHT? By Ed Bark
 
 
“Television’s Biggest Night” (why do they keep saying that?) returns Sunday in the form of the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
I'M SO GLAD THEY HAD THIS TIME TOGETHER By Linda Donovan
 
 
During Stephen Colbert’s second week as host of CBS’ Late Show, he arranged a sort of mini-tribute to one of the funniest, if not the funniest, women on the planet – Carol Burnett...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
19
HONDO MINI-MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
Here’s another never-repeated rare Western TV series unearthed by getTV, which you can find by visiting the getTV website. Beginning today with a multi-episode mini-marathon, getTV is adding to its schedule Hondo, a 1967 Western TV series based on the 1953 movie. John Wayne starred in the big-screen version, and his production company produced this small-screen spinoff. Ralph Taeger plays the title character, a former Rebel officer and widower of an Indian wife, who resides in the post-Civ
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley