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2020
Jul
7
NETFLIX'S ‘JEFFREY EPSTEIN: FILTHY RICH' EYE-OPENING, HARROWING — AND BACK IN THE NEWS By Alex Strachan
 
 
Do you believe in coincidences?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
6
THE BIRDS By David Bianculli
 
 
In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock made one of his undisputed classic horror films: The Birds, based on the short story by Daphne Du Maurier. Today, it would be relatively easy to flood the screen with menacing birds using CGI effects – but close to 60 years ago, Hitchcock pulled it off using animatronic replicas, hard-painted decoys, and lots and lots of actual live birds. The finale alone was an artful combination of 32 painted images and individually photographed shots. Tippi Hedren st
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
6
THE DEFIANT ONES By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s also, given the rising awareness of racial inequality and tension, a perfect time to revisit this 1958 Stanley Kramer film. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier play two convicts who escaped while chained together, and must work together in order to evade recapture. Adding to the drama: one of them is white, the other is black, and each of them carries his own prejudices against the other’s race.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
6
AN UNVARNISHED AND INFORMATIVE LESSON ON WINNING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO 'THE VOTE' By David Hinckley
 
 
Four hours might seem like a long time to trace the history of how America finally and reluctantly granted women the right to vote. If so, just imagine how the passage of time felt to the women...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
6
1993: NO MORE 'ROOM FOR TWO' ON ABC By TV WW
 
 
This day in 1993 marked the last telecast of the ABC sitcom, Room For Two...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
1989: NBC AIRS 'THE SEINFELD CHRONICLES' By David Bianculli
 
 
NBC presents The Seinfeld Chronicles — the show that would become Seinfeld — as a one-shot pilot on this day in 1989...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
ROD, WHITE AND BLUE: A TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
The Decades channel Independence Day weekend marathon of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone continues today, and, once again, there are some absolute classics being televised today. Chief among them: at 9 a.m. ET, Agnes Moorehead in 1961’s “The Invaders” (pictured), playing a woman defending her remote farmhouse from a sudden invasion by tiny aliens from outer space, who land on her roof in a miniature flying saucer and set out to attack her with their itty-bitty b
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
PERRY MASON By David Bianculli
 
 
This is episode three in this eight-part miniseries adaptation of the classic TV series – and it’s the one that begins to set Matthew Rhys’ Perry off one career path, and in the direction of another. Be patient, because this Perry Mason, and the courtroom case that eventually arrives, is worth the wait.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week’s premiere episode of this documentary miniseries ended with an image that was hard to shake: a woman swimming in a lake in the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, totally oblivious to the fact that the titular creature was swimming just below her, watching and even echoing her movements as she swam. Director Liz Garbus locked on to that movie and its imagery, which were cited by Michelle McNamara in her book and rsearched about a series of unsolved serial rapes and m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
METV CELEBRATES CARL REINER By David Bianculli
 
 
CBS showed a pair of colorized episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Friday night to honor series creator and occasional featured player Carl Reiner, who died last Monday at age 98. (Both had been televised before, in their newly colorized form, but it was a nice and timely tribute nonetheless.) Tonight, as part of its own Reiner tribute, MeTV presents the black and white versions of two Dick Van Dyke Show episodes: the same “Coast to Coast Big Mouth” episode shown i
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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