College football bowl season doesn't burst onto the TV scene as much as it simply ooozes into our collective consciousness. Lots of factors come into play...The bowls don't have the convenient packaging of the ballyhooed March Madness...

2010

Dec

YULE TUBE: HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS ON TELEVISION By Diane Werts

Everybody's got favorite Christmas movies and TV shows they watch year after year. But it's also great finding a new fave you never knew existed. That's why Christmas books are so cool -- and why I wrote one myself, "Christmas on Television." I'd been watching (and recording) holiday episodes for years, for reasons that weren't clear to me until I started thinking on it for the book...

2010

Dec

CHRISTMAS TV UPDATE: DOZENS MORE SHOWS! By Diane Werts

If you've been looking to revisit holiday cheer from "The Wonder Years," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "King of the Hill," "The Hughleys," "Ally McBeal" [photo] or "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," all these shows and more have been added to our ever-expanding Christmas TV listings...

2010

Dec

HAPPY FESTIVUS: 'SEINFELD' DVD DEAL! By Diane Werts

How much "Seinfeld" can you stand? Find out by buying The Complete Series box as Thursday's Amazon spotlight deal of the day. Just in time for Festivus!...

2010

Dec

READERS, TIME FOR YOUR HOLIDAY WRITING ASSIGNMENT: IDENTIFY YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY SPECIALS AND MOVIES, AND WHY By David Bianculli

Maybe it's because I've just graded my final college papers of the year. Maybe it's because Diane Werts has been listing such great holiday offerings on TV and DVD. Probably, it's a little of both. Regardless, here's what I'd like to know: Are there any holiday TV traditions you still keep? Any all-time favorites? Any memories you'd like to share of watching holiday TV specials or movies as a kid?...

2010

Dec

SPEND TIME IN 'COOL SPACES' By Eric Gould

If you're not in the habit of paying attention to the 21st century city -- the modern architecture around you -- PBS might be cooking up something to help you look at it more closely. The public TV pilot Cool Spaces is looking at modern architecture. It's up to be green lit, pending panel review and viewer interest from folks like you...

2010

Dec

'TIS REALLY THE SEASON TO BE CHECKING OUT OUR SITE -- AND CHECKING IT TWICE By David Bianculli

Diane Werts, our esteemed managing editor and over-the-top Christmas entertainment nut, can't stop herself. Now she's added not only the latest listings to her ever-expanding lists of hoiday-related TV episodes, specials and movies, but she's added pictures, too. So now, the mere sight of something may jog your memory and make you want to set your recorders. The Yule Log, for instance...

2010

Dec

HOLIDAY LISTINGS UPDATE: PHOTOS TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR FAVES By Diane Werts

Finally, TVWW's Christmas TV listings for episodes/specials and movies are now souped up with photos. That makes it easier to spot upcoming airings of classics like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's a Wonderful Life," along with newcomers like holiday episodes of "Hawaii Five-0" and "Glee" (yes, it's getting an encore), plus movies...

2010

Dec

ON NPR'S 'FRESH AIR,' I REVEAL MY FAVORITE DVD GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: HERE'S THE LIST, AND LINKS TO BUY THEM By David Bianculli

Sometime Friday afternoon, you'll be able to tune to your local NPR station and hear my list of the very best new TV boxed sets and gifts for the holidays. But for TV WORTH WATCHING readers, the list follows immediately, along with easy links to go buy them...

2010

Dec

CHRISTMAS SING WITH BING ON DVD By Ed Bark

Just five weeks before his Oct. 14, 1977 death, a crooning, cardigan-sweatered Ghost of TV Christmas Specials Past performed a well-worn carol with an androgynous, cutting-edge rock star 44 years his junior...

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