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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jan
29
ACORN TV'S 'GIRLFRIENDS' HAS AGE-OLD APPEAL By Ed Bark
 
 
Attention TV shoppers: Acorn TV’s Girlfriends in no way is a reboot of what just happened to be the same-named sitcom that lasted eight seasons on UPN and then The CW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
28
STARZ HAS VIEWERS SEEING DOUBLE IN SCI-FI/SPY DRAMA 'COUNTERPART' By Ed Bark
 
 
Better known lately as the face of those heavily exposed Farmers insurance ads, J. K. Simmons knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
26
GIVING THE REBOOT TO 'MURPHY BROWN' By Ed Bark
 
 
Resurrecting onetime hit TV series -- either with the old cast or a brand new one -- may have gone from a fever pitch to a fanatical one with CBS’ announcement that Murphy Brown is coming back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
22
HBO'S 'MOSAIC' A SO-SO WHODUNIT BUT STAR VEHICLE FOR STONE By Ed Bark
 
 
A famous children’s book author with a yen for younger men is murdered in her splendorous Summit, Utah home on New Year’s Eve. There’s ample blood but no body. So who did it and where’s the corpse?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
22
TNT'S 'THE ALIENIST' IS JUST THE LATEST DRAMA TO ACCENTUATE SERIAL KILLING By Ed Bark
 
 
The serial killings are gruesome, the cops are corrupt and the gumshoes are dedicated but always up against it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
21
FOX ADDS A NEW SET OF DOCTORS TO ITS HOUSE IN 'THE RESIDENT' By Ed Bark
 
 
Amy Holden Jones, daughter of a doctor and co-creator/executive producer of Fox’s new The Resident, seems to know just what many TV critics are thinking...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
FX'S 'THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE' HITS HARDER WITH THE KILLER'S LESSER-KNOWN VICTIMS By Ed Bark
 
 
FX’s second American Crime Story entry could be far more accurately titled The Dissection of Andrew Cunanan...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
16
A DC SUPERHERO OF COLOR IN THE CW'S BOLD, BOLT-DISPENSING 'BLACK LIGHTNING' By Ed Bark
 
 
The official network of DC Comics superheroes is adding a fifth...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
MILLENNIAL AGE CRISES IN FREEFORM'S 'ALONE TOGETHER' By Ed Bark
 
 
The fine line between being amusingly under-achieving and annoyingly pathetic is criss-crossed repeatedly in Freeform’s Alone Together...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
7
GREATNESS IS IN THE CARDS FOR SHOWTIME'S 'THE CHI' By Ed Bark
 
 
That didn't take long. The first potentially great new TV series of 2018 is already upon us...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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