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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Oct
19
'FIREWORK' LIGHTS UP 'NIGHT OF TOO MANY STARS' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars doesn't premiere until Sunday, Oct. 21, but one segment of the show is already a hit on the internet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
17
BEFORE YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR IPHONE 5... By Eric Gould
 
 
Here's an SNL sketch from last week that takes the usual bitching about your hand-held device, and brings them directly to to the factory workers that made them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
AMC'S AFTER-SHOW FOR 'WALKING DEAD' FANS By Eric Gould
 
 
There aren't many shows like AMC's Talking Dead, a live after-show dedicated to the fans of the currently-running scripted drama, The Walking Dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
PBS STREAMS 'DEATH AND THE CIVIL WAR' By David Bianculli
 
 
In Death and the Civil War, Ric Burns finds a new story to tell about the Civil War — one that encompasses both the unprecedented scope of that war’s destruction and the equally unprecedented availability of battlefield photography to document the losses...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
1
'SESAME STREET''S PLUCKY PARODY OF HBO'S 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Perhaps Steve Buscemi's Nucky Thompson could learn a thing or two about compromise from the Sesame Street parody of his gangster drama, Boardwalk Empire...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
29
'BREAKING BAD BANTER' ON 'THE COLBERT REPORT' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert challenged his guest, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, to a “Meth Off,” to see just how many street names for methamphetamines the showrunner could recall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
22
TREME: SEASON THREE PREVIEW By Eric Gould
 
 
Steeped in New Orleans music, culture and food, the noir drama Treme returns Sunday night, Sept. 23 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO. The series features one of TV's top casts, including Lance E. Nichols, Steve Zahn, Melissa Leo, David Morse and Jon Seda...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
16
PUPPET CLASS GONE VERY, VERY WRONG By Eric Gould
 
 
Bill Hader continues to show why he's one of the top SNL guns; last night he played a PTSD war veteran bringing his talents, such as they are, to a puppet class lead by Family Guy creator and guest host Seth MacFarlane...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
15
THE DAY CARL SANDBURG DIED By Eric Gould
 
 
The PBS series American Masters takes a look at the life and times of poet, journalist and activist Carl Sandburg...it looks at the significance and effects of his work, which gained three Pulitzer Prizes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
9
MAYBE WE'RE NOT BETTER OFF, SAYS LARRY DAVID, BUT... By Eric Gould
 
 
As Larry David pointed out on Thursday's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, maybe we're not better off than we were four years ago, but hey, things are less bad than they could have been.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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