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DAVID BIANCULLI

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ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

The Cold Light Reader

LINDA DONOVAN

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All Along the Watchtower

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Uncle Barky's Bytes

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TV That Matters

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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Apr
30
'A PARKS AND RECREATION SPECIAL' IS DEFINITELY WORTH WATCHING TONIGHT By Mike Hughes
 
 
A new art form – we’ll call it “social-distance theater” – takes a big step tonight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
28
'AMERICAN IDOL' HAS MADE HISTORY ONCE AGAIN By Mike Hughes
 
 
American Idol has changed a lot in the past two decades. For instance, the singers are much better, but the judges are much worse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
26
THE MUCH ANTICIPATED 'PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS' DISCUSSED BY THE CREATORS AND STARS By Mike Hughes
 
 
The new Penny Dreadful season – Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – sprawls across huge emotional turf...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
22
JANE GOODALL, EARTH DAY, AND NATGEO By Mike Hughes
 
 
Last month, Jane Goodall – who will be the star of many Earth Day programs Wednesday – received some jolting news: She would be relaxing at home for a while...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
22
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON EARTH DAY PROGRAMMING By Mike Hughes
 
 
Let’s think of it as an Earth Day Film Festival. On Wednesday, our TVs and other devices will be filled with documentaries and other programming, some hopeful and some bleak, for the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
15
THE WOMEN BEHIND THE WOMEN OF 'MRS. AMERICA' By Mike Hughes
 
 
Back in 1972, American society seemed to be transforming. "You just had the Civil Rights Act and the Pay Equity Act," said Cate Blanchett...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
8
FROM THE CAST AND CREATORS, AN APPRECIATION OF 'MODERN FAMILY' By Mike Hughes
 
 
When the Modern Family cast first assembled, Jesse Tyler Ferguson was surrounded by strangers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
7
TWO SHOWS END THIS WEEK BUT NOT BEFORE LEAVING THEIR MARKS By Mike Hughes
 
 
Two long-running comedies say farewell this week. One is much loved, one much-liked. Both will be greatly missed. And together, they show how life (especially TV life) has changed in a decade or so...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
MORE MUSIC TO ENJOY FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME By Mike Hughes
 
 
TV's music-from-home trend is getting a double boost, with two shows returning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
4
A DRAMA ABOUT HEIGHTENED REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES DURING WWII By Mike Hughes
 
 
As Europe began crumbling in 1939, a new generation was jolted. That's true of the fictional characters at the core of World on Fire...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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