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2019
Jul
18
IZOMBIE By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “Killer Queen,” and has Liv (Rose McIver) absorbing the brains and personality of a murdered drag queen. Makeup and wardrobe are appropriately fabulous.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
THE 71ST EMMY NOMINATIONS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY By Alex Strachan
 
 
Great Odin's raven! This past weekend, mere days after Game of Thrones was shut out of this year's Television Critics Association nominations, a prominent UK reviewer made a comment regarding another long-running sword 'n' sandals TV fantasy. Vikings, he said, had succumbed to "season-seven Game of Thrones" syndrome...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
THE GRAPES OF WRATH By David Bianculli
 
 
John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel about a family hit hard by the Dust Bowl and the Depression had been published only one year when director John Ford turned it into this classic film version, starring Henry Fonda as beleaguered everyman Tom Joad. Jane Darwell, as Ma Joad, will get you, even more than Fonda, which is saying a lot.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
8 DAYS: TO THE MOON AND BACK By David Bianculli
 
 
DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL: Yet another Apollo 11 special arriving as the moon mission hits its golden anniversary – and this one, for PBS, may be golden indeed, for interspersing conversations among the three astronauts with vintage footage of the flight, landing and return, some of it unseen until now. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
'PEARSON,' THE 'SUITS' SPINOFF, PROVIDES MORE GOOD DRAMA ON USA By David Hinckley
 
 
When USA decided to spin the Jessica Pearson character from Suits off into her own series, they didn’t just send her next door. They sent her to another galaxy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
16
'PANDORA,' DEBUTING ON THE CW, IS CHEESY…BUT IN A GOOD WAY By David Hinckley
 
 
Okay, let’s get this out of the way right up front. The CW’s new summer series Pandora is filmed in Bulgaria and features spacecraft that look like those old 1950s props where you could almost see the wires...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
16
THE LION KING: CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT? By David Bianculli
 
 
In this prime-time special, Disney-owned ABC says it’s celebrating the golden anniversary of The Lion King, the animated movie that was a large part of Disney’s cartoon movie resurgence. And, of course, the long-running, still-running Broadway musical it spawned. But also, this special makes quite a point of sneak-peeking and promoting the new photorealistic, computer-generated movie version of The Lion King, which hits theaters Thursday. My alternate title for to
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
16
MOON MOVIE FESTIVAL By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s treats on TCM’s “Out of This World” Tuesdays festival in July are a bunch of moon movies. At 8 p.m. ET, 1950’s Destination Moon starts things off, and other lunar movies are in orbit all night long, up to and including the 5:30 a.m. ET showing of the first sci-fi and moon exploration movie ever made, George Melies’ 1902 silent classic, A Trip to the Moon (pictured). Other moon trips in the lineup tonight include 1958’s 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
16
CBS NEWS REPORT: MAN ON THE MOON By David Bianculli
 
 
Speaking of lunar exploration, CBS tonight has a one-hour special devoted to the real deal: a look back at Apollo 11, which launched 50 years ago tonight, and succeeded in landing a man on the moon four days later. This special includes lots of vintage coverage, especially that anchored by Walter Cronkite, who basically owned the story on broadcast TV back in 1969.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
15
ACORN DROPS SEASON 2 OF 'LONDON KILLS' By David Hinckley
 
 
At a time when U.S. television has been taking a small breather, Acorn steps in with new episodes of the breezy police procedural London Kills...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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