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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
Jan
28
TNT'S 'I AM THE NIGHT' ENDS UP BEING ITS OWN CURFEW By Ed Bark
 
 
Chris Pine’s character regularly takes a beating, as does the overall believability of TNT’s ambitious but convoluted I Am the Night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
LIONS BEFORE PRINT JOURNALISM'S WINTER IN HBO'S 'BRESLIN AND HAMILL: DEADLINE ARTISTS' By Ed Bark
 
 
The lede is inspired. HBO’s Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists begins with visuals of New York subway passengers transfixed by their cell phones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
24
SURVIVAL MODE FOR THE BIG FOUR BROADCAST NETWORKS INCREASINGLY IS MORE POST-SURVIVOR "REALITY-COMPETITION" SHOWS By Ed Bark
 
 
The annual Golden Globes awards recently came and went without a single win for one of the old line Big Four broadcast networks -- ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
20
SHOWTIME'S 'BLACK MONDAY' PUTS DON CHEADLE BACK IN CON MAN MODE AFTER FIVE SEASONS AS MARTY KAAN IN NETWORK'S 'HOUSE OF LIES' By Ed Bark
 
 
Two-and-a-half years removed from a five-season run on Showtime’s House of Lies, Don Cheadle barely segues to another rapacious deal-closer in the network’s Black Monday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
16
THE CURRICULUM IS KILLING 101 IN SYFY'S HARD KNOCKS 'DEADLY CLASS' By Ed Bark
 
 
You’ll make the grade in Syfy’s Deadly Class if you’re getting consistently high marks in AP Black Arts, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Poison Lab and Dart Workshop...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
THE CW'S 'ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO' CRASH LANDS ALONG WITH ITS EXTRATERRESTRIALS By Ed Bark
 
 
The overriding – or more to the point, the only – reason to visit Roswell, New Mexico is its UFO phooey. Once is more than enough...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
14
'THE PASSAGE' GIVES FOX A SCI-FI CONTENDER WITH HEART TO SPARE By Ed Bark
 
 
A generation removed from Saved By the Bell, former teen heartthrob Mark-Paul Gosselaar, now 44, is acting with kids again. Actually, it’s just one kid. But what a kid...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
13
SEASON 3 OF 'TRUE DETECTIVE' SOLIDLY FOLLOWS THE LEADS OF THE FIRST By Ed Bark
 
 
Although not a complete implosion, Season 2 of True Detective had serious structural damage compared to the foundation laid by the fictional whodunit’s acclaimed first edition...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
CBS' 'FAM' IS RACIALLY DIVERSE WITHOUT CALLING ATTENTION TO THE OBVIOUS By Ed Bark
 
 
It’s been nearly half a century since CBS dared to launch one of television’s all-time milestones, All in the Family. The network’s Fam, is also something of a benchmark...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
9
ABC'S 'SCHOOLED' COULD USE A LITTLE DETENTION By Ed Bark
 
 
The original version of Schooled flunked as a planned spinoff of ABC’s The Goldbergs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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