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Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Jun
30
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli
 
 
This week, Donald Trump told Vladimir Putin not to meddle in our election process – but it’s the way Trump said it that I’m looking forward to hearing John Oliver’s description and reaction.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
30
AS THE CROWE FLIES, SO DOES SHOWTIME'S 'THE LOUDEST VOICE' By Ed Bark
 
 
Making up is hard to do – or so it would seem in turning Russell Crowe into Roger Ailes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
POP TV SAVES 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' FROM THE CANCELLED PILE By Mike Hughes
 
 
For the TV world, this was one of the year's biggest news flashes: Pop TV is rescuing One Day at a Time. It will have 13 new episodes next year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli
 
 
Yesterday on the Fox broadcast network, the U.S. women’s soccer team faced the host nation, France, in a well-played quarterfinal game, one in which the American squad scored an early goal, built an eventual 2-0 lead (with both goals scored by Megan Rapinoe, pictured), and held on to win after France scored a goal late and tried furiously to even the score before time ran out in regulation play. The day before, in the first quarterfinal game of this year’s FIFA tournament, England ha
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
ROBIN HOOD By David Bianculli
 
 
This is not a recommendation. This 2018 movie isn’t a good version of the familiar legend – so it joins a short but significantly disappointing recent line of subpar Robin Hood remakes. This one stars Kingsman star Taron Egerton, who rebounded this year by playing Elton John in Rocketman. So the fun here, such as it is, is imagining Elton in a much more rough and rural British setting, stealing from the rich instead of amassing his own wealth and go
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
29
COWBOYS STILL REIGN ON TV By Mike Hughes
 
 
You might remember cowboys. They used to be big in the movies. And on TV. And, perhaps, in our daydreams...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
28
THE CREEPY THRILLER, 'THE CHOSEN ONE,' STARTS STREAMING ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
With so many hours to fill, television eventually gets around to almost every contemporary issue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
28
FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli
 
 
The last time so many U.S. viewers tuned in for coverage of a live TV event from Paris, it was when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Today, though, it’s a much happier occasion. It’s the U.S. women’s soccer team that’s on fire, dominating the 2019 FIFA tournament this year and emerging from the group stage undefeated. But now it faces France, which also won all three of its group stage games, and is the host country to boot. (And hey: isn’t it especially sweet
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
28
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week’s episode was a mind-bending, time-bending episode running Fitz and Jemma (Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge) through a series of dangers, conflicts and personae (pictured) – but the episode ended with the couple not only reunited, but rescued. That was good news. Now the bad news: Tonight, they and their S.H.I.E.L.D. cohorts move from the proverbial frying pan into the galactic fire.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
28
JETT By David Bianculli
 
 
The crime caper at the end of last week’s episode of Jett had series star Carla Gugino, as former master thief “Jett” Kowalski, forced to take a crew on a safecracking job inside a mob-connected nightclub. Armed with both a gun and a killer outfit and blonde wig, Jett infiltrated the place easily – but just before the closing credits rolled, one of her fellow robbers pointed his gun directly at her, at close range, and fired. Because her name is this show’
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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