We here at TVWW, like many of you, have clips of shows we like to watch over and over…primarily those that make us laugh so hard we can barely breathe. But when the holiday season puts me in a musical mood, I pull up two favorites...

2014

Nov

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR TV SHOW'S BEEN? By Linda Donovan

Here in the U.S., our last monarch was King George III and, as you may recall, that was a couple of centuries ago. Yet we still seem to admire many things British...

2014

Nov

AN ALTERNATE VIEW OF ERNIE By Linda Donovan

Over ten years ago Katie Couric demonstrated to us all, by being brave enough to have a colonoscopy on the air during the Today show, that it was the responsible, painless, and smart thing to do for our health. Now someone new is offering us that same encouragement...

2014

Oct

'THE WONDER YEARS,' NOSTALGIA AND LIFE By Linda Donovan

On Monday (Oct. 20), TVWW founder and editor David Bianculli moderated the reunion of the “kids” from The Wonder Years (1988-’93) at the 92 St. Y in New York. These particular actors -- Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, and Josh Saviano -- are exceptional in more ways than one...

2014

Sep

WHOSE 'VOICE' IS IT ANYWAY? By Linda Donovan

We’ve seen lip-sync contests on TV before, and not just on The Tonight Show. But there’s something in the way Jimmy Fallon presents them and, more importantly, the people he gets to play along, that make his all the more fun...

2014

Aug

SLOW NEWS IS GREAT NEWS By Linda Donovan

The Onion is famous for satirizing any and all sorts of topics in the news as well as items they’ve touted as true that are far from it. And now the funny folks at The Onion have put together what one might call a template for TV coverage of a news story...

2014

Aug

TEARS FOR A CLOWN By Linda Donovan

We’ve heard, read and seen many eloquent and emotional tributes to Robin Williams since his death on August 11^th. When David Letterman returned to Late Show after his vacation, it was his turn to pay homage...

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

Apr

CONAN GOES 'COSMO' By Linda Donovan

Conan took Team Coco to Dallas from 3/31 through 4/3 and we're sure the city will never be the same. During his time there he visited the headquarters of an international institution that started in Dallas about 50 years ago -- Mary Kay cosmetics...

2014

Mar

'SPORTS NIGHT' MEETS SPORTS GUY By Linda Donovan

Actor Josh Charles has been very busy recently making appearances to address the shocking and, according to some fans, distressing plot twist revealed in the 3/23 episode of The Good Wife. Here at TVWW, we remember Charles quite fondly for his first starring role in a weekly series: as Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night...

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