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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2021
Feb
24
1996: HBO DEBUTS 'THE LATE SHIFT' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1996, HBO debuted The Late Shift, a telefilm based on the book by New York Times TV critic Bill Carter that chronicled the contentious competition between David Letterman and Jay Leno for the retiring Johnny Carson's Tonight Show seat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
1993: CBS PRESENTS 'ALEX HALEY'S QUEEN' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1993, CBS aired part one of the three-part miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
13
2009: JOSS WHEDON'S 'DOLLHOUSE' DEBUTS By TV WW
 
 
This day in 2009 marked the debut of writer/director Joss Whedon's science fiction drama, Dollhouse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
12
1978: NBC DEBUTS 'KING' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1978, NBC debuted the three-part miniseries, King, which chronicled the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
11
1990: NBC PRESENTS 'BLIND FAITH' By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1990, NBC launched Blind Faith, a two-part miniseries based on the eponymous true-crime book by author Joe McGinniss...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
10
1993: OPRAH INTERVIEWS MICHAEL JACKSON By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1993, "King of Pop" Michael Jackson sat down for a live interview with Oprah Winfrey — his first interview in 14 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
7
2000: MARY AND RHODA REUNITE IN AN ABC TV MOVIE By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 2000, Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reprised their roles from the '70s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
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The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
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Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
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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