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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2020
Jun
24
'MONEY HEIST': NETFLIX'S BEST KEPT SECRET GOES VIRAL AND IT'S TIME TO BINGE IT By Gary Edgerton
 
 
Money Heist is Netflix's most-watched success since the third season of Stranger Things dropped on the Fourth of July in 2019...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
12
ON THE ROAD AGAIN, WITH KEN BURNS AND 'COUNTRY MUSIC' By Gary Edgerton
 
 
To put it succinctly, the opening of Ken Burns' new Country Music documentary series, premiering Sunday on PBS, reprises Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter Harlan Howard’s well-known description of a country song as being “three chords and the truth”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
28
NBC CREATED A NEW YEAR’S TRADITION WITH THE 'NHL WINTER CLASSIC' By Gary Edgerton
 
 
I know, I know. New Year’s Day is supposed to be the sole province of college football for sports enthusiasts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jul
22
CELEBRATING 'TED WILLIAMS: THE GREATEST HITTER WHO EVER LIVED' ON PBS By Gary Edgerton
 
 
I was too young for Ted Williams to be a personal hero of mine growing up in Massachusetts. He was already at the end of his legendary career...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
13
THE UNFINISHED LEGACY OF 'THE VIETNAM WAR' By Gary Edgerton
 
 
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War (2017) begins with a blank screen and the throbbing whirr of helicopter blades... an iconic sound is inextricably linked with Americans remembrance of this still unsettling and unresolved conflict.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
13
50 YEARS AGO, AS '1964' REMINDS US, BEATLES AND HILLBILLIES REIGNED ON TV By Gary Edgerton
 
 
The new American Experience documentary "1964" works effectively as both historical drama and commemorative television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Aug
24
LIKE IT OR NOT, AARON SORKIN HAS FOUND HIS NICHE By Gary Edgerton
 
 
The Newsroom has been starkly polarized with professional and amateur commentators either loving or hating what they’ve watched of the program so far...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Gary Edgerton

Gary Edgerton is Professor of Creative Media and Entertainment at Butler University.  He has published eleven books and more than eighty-five essays on a variety of television, film, and culture topics in a wide assortment of books, scholarly journals, and encyclopedias.  He also coedits The Journal of Popular Film and Television.
 
 
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
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'
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