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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Aug
10
UPCOMING 'THE GREAT INDOORS' ASKS, "WHEN DID 40-SOMETHING BECOME THE NEW 80?" By David Hinckley
 
 
Joel McHale’s character in the new CBS show The Great Indoors, Jack, gives voice to all persons over 35 who went out for lunch at work one day and returned to learn that everything they did no longer mattered and the way they did it was irrelevant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
10
DIVERSITY CONCERNS ARE RAISED AGAIN -- THIS TIME WITH CBS By David Hinckley
 
 
Even though CBS has been hitting home runs for years with prime-time shows starring straight white men, the network’s entertainment chief admitted Wednesday that’s not enough...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
10
A STATE OF THE INDUSTRY UPDATE FROM FX'S JOHN LANDGRAF By David Hinckley
 
 
FX President John Landgraf, who started a loud rumble in the television industry last summer by declaring that there are too many TV shows, returned this summer to further explain why that’s true...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
10
FX CHANNELS THE SPIRIT OF 'LOUIE' IN NEW 'BETTER THINGS' By David Hinckley
 
 
Louis CK’s FX show Louie may be on indefinite hiatus, but its spirit returns in full off center bloom Sept. 8 with Pamela Adlon’s Better Things...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
10
FOX'S 'LETHAL WEAPON' HAS A SHARPER EDGE By David Hinckley
 
 
Don’t expect Lethal Weapon the Fox TV show to be Lethal Weapon 5 the movie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
10
FOX'S 'EXORCIST' CONTINUES THE EVIL OF THE FILM By David Hinckley
 
 
BEVERLY HILLS -- As a major fan of The Exorcist, Jeremy Slater says the last thing he’d want to watch is a lame remake...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
9
FOX REBUILDS POST 'IDOL' LINEUP By David Hinckley
 
 
If you’ve got to rebuild, Fox entertainment executives told TV writers Monday, it doesn’t hurt to use familiar blocks...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
8
JEFFREY TAMBOR TALKS ABOUT 'TRANSPARENT' RESPONSIBILITY By David Hinckley
 
 
After the Amazon series Transparent launched in February 2014, Jeffrey Tambor says he could hear the murmurs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
7
AMAZON ANNOUNCES NEW SLATE OF SHOWS FOR FALL By David Hinckley
 
 
The award-winning Transparent returns to Amazon Prime this fall, and the streaming service is giving it some new high-profile company...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
6
HUGH LAURIE IS BACK IN THE TV MEDICAL PROFESSION By David Hinckley
 
 
Hugh Laurie is returning to the medical profession. But anyone who expects to see the last doctor he played on television is looking in the wrong house...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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