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2014

Jul

GRAHAM'S THE BEST AND HERE'S HIS 2014 BEST By Eric Gould

The Graham Norton Show has been a longtime TVWW fave, seemingly having cracked the formula for what makes a great 21st century talk show. The show has wrapped for the season, but here's a "Best of 2014" series of clips...

2014

Jul

RELIVE HALF OF 'THE SIXTIES' IN A HANDFUL OF HOURS By David Bianculli

Barring major breaking news, CNN will devote its Sunday night, beginning at 8 p.m. ET, to a repeat telecast of the five episodes of The Sixties documentary series it’s shown to date. Here’s a very brief snippet from the opening installment, which focuses on the Smothers Brothers...

2014

Jul

NO GOAL IS A GOOD THING By Monique Nazareth

Team USA may have lost to Belgium in their latest World Cup effort but the man of the hour (or, in this case, of the two-hour game) was goalkeeper Tim Howard who played the match of his life..

2014

Jun

MAKING POP OUT OF OP-ART By Eric Gould

The band OK Go has a reputation for creating amazing single-take productions for their music videos. Now, they've outdone themselves with this stunning one-shot choreographed adventure for their new video...

2014

Jun

ROCKING THE HERD By Eric Gould

Now, space travel is so routine it’s a challenge to name the latest launch or even one current astronaut. With space technology now going private, here’s one video example from the rocket company SpaceX, which shows a test flight of the Falcon 9 Reusable which can blast off and, hey lookit that, return to the launch pad...

2014

Jun

WIL WHEATON'S ALTERNATE 'GAME OF THRONES' OPENING CREDITS By David Bianculli

If you’re like me, you’ve watched the opening credits for HBO’s Game of Thrones for years now, trying to follow the intricate Rube Goldberg-type “living map” of the various kingdoms, and invariably getting lost somewhere along the way. The Wil Wheaton Project has offered some help...

2014

Jun

THE OLD DAD SIDE-STEP By Monique Nazareth

In honor of Fathers Day, Jimmy Fallon presented the "Evolution of Dad Dancing" on his show Thursday. He got a little help from another dad, New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie...Christie had no problem crossing a bridge to Manhattan...

2014

Jun

FIFA-FO-FUM By Linda Donovan

The world's largest sporting event, what we in the U.S. might call a soccer tournament, starts this week in Brazil. The 2014 World Cup will be watched across the globe and John Oliver is both "excited and extremely conflicted about it..."

2014

May

THE ROASTER AND THE ROASTED By Eric Gould

Don Rickles is getting his own grilling in a special tribute on Spike TV’s One Night Only on May 28. Here, in a 1968 Kraft Music Hall Friars Club broadcast, "The Merchant of Venom" is roasting Johnny Carson...