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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
May
17
MEGYN KELLY PRESENTS By David Bianculli
 
 
SPECIAL: On an early presidential debate, moderator Megyn Kelly asks candidate Donald Trump about his misogynist remarks about women. Ratings for the debate are “huuuge,” Trump starts a Twitter war and talk-show attack against Kelly, Trump rises in the polls, Kelly’s profile rises in the media – and now this. It’s a one-hour special presented not on Fox News, but on the big-boy network itself, with Fox salivating about the prospect of a prime-time rematch interview
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This two-hour season finale concludes the story of The Hive, with a confrontation that is sure to claim lives on both sides of the battleground. Daisy is back as one of the good guys, and Hive, based on last week’s episode, seemed to be down, but maybe not out. You know how pesky these alien parasites can be…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
THE NIGHT MANAGER By David Bianculli
 
 
Part 5. Talk about being in too deep. Tom Hiddleston’s “hotel manager,” now posing as a mercenary in the inner circle of Hugh Laurie’s international arms smuggler, has been caught in a potential dalliance with the arms dealer’s mistress. The spy’s handlers called him off the mission, but instead, he dove in headfirst, defied orders and accompanied the bad guys on their latest scheme.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
IF WE CAN JUST CONVINCE THE POWERS THAT BE TO SAY YES, THE U.S. IS READY FOR ‘EUROVISION 2017’ By Linda Donovan
 
 
Eurovision Song Contest 2016 came to the U.S. on May 14 in the form of the final show – live – thanks to the Logo Network. This is the first year, since the contest’s start in 1956, that we’ve seen the competition on U.S. television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 
Richard Boone starred in three major TV series in the 1950s and 1960s, and all of them were noteworthy and unusual. Medic (1054-56) was one of TV’s first medical series, and The Richard Boone Show (1963-64) was a bold experiment, a repertory company anthology show, decades ahead of the likes of American Horror Story. And in between those two series, from 1957-63, was CBS’s Have Gun – Will Travel, a moody, moral, menacing Western...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
PBS’ ‘FRONTLINE’ DOC ON ISIS SHOWS VALUE OF REAL JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF THE KARDASHIANS By Alex Strachan
 
 
This is what was trending on Google News the other day: “Blac Chyna is Pregnant: 6 Reasons Why Rob Kardashian Is Going to Be a Great Dad.” There are six reasons — at least — not to care, but that is where the media culture is today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
FOX'S NEW FALL 2016 SHOWS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli
 
 

For the coming season, Fox, for the first time in many years without American Idol, is continuing its strategy of backloading the season…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
NBC’S NEW FALL 2016 SHOWS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli
 
 

The first two networks revealing their plans for the fall 2016 share an autumnal austerity. NBC, like Fox, is unveiling markedly few new series for this fall. Three, to be exact…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s down to the Top 8, as we head into what the show is calling its semifinal round. With so many more episodes to go before the finale, that count seems to be off a bit.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
GOTHAM By David Bianculli
 
 
The penultimate episode of the season has mad scientist Hugo Strange reanimating a character who died, or appeared to, in the finale episode for last season: Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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