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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2008
Dec
27
YULE TUBE: LIZA MINNELLI AND TAMMY FAYE! By Diane Werts
 
 
Yes, Christmas kiddies -- we've hit the jackpot. Our friends at TV4U.com have posted full-length streaming video of 1965's original TV musical The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood -- starring 19-year-old Liza Minnelli...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Dec
27
HAPPY NEW YEAR TV: COUNTDOWNS AND MARATHONS By Diane Werts
 
 
Celebrate Wednesday night's arrival of 2009 the new/old-fashioned way with the broadcast networks' countdowns. Or check out cable's alternatives, most of which have nothing to do with New Year's Eve. And then there's the let-it-all-hang-out festivity of Univision's time-zone-hopping Feliz 2009! Can't go wrong with Don Francisco...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Dec
18
YULE TUBE: WATCH CHRISTMAS TV SHOWS ONLINE By Diane Werts
 
 
So you've searched our hundreds of holiday TV listings, and you haven't found the Christmas episode/special you're looking for. Maybe you missed it when it aired. Or you'd rather watch it on your iPod. Try online TV. You can watch streaming shows on your computer, or download 'em to show-and-tell -- anything from South Park to It's a Wonderful Life, plus obscure old holidays from Amos 'n' Andy, Liberace and Ozzie & Harriet. Even Chrismukkah on The O.C...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Dec
18
YULE TUBE ALASTAIR SIM'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOUND By Diane Werts
 
 
...Not on TV, unfortunately. Like It's a Wonderful Life -- another classic that used to run constantly -- Sim's 1951 British-produced A Christmas Carol has become a rare find on the tube....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Dec
4
GREAT TV GIFTS: 'I, CLAUDIUS' ON DVD By Diane Werts
 
 
Thirty years later, the legend lives on. I, Claudius was an early hit for PBS' Masterpiece Theatre in the public broadcaster's first decade, topping critics' 1976 best-of lists...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Dec
1
YULE TUBE: SPLATTERED SANTA! By Diane Werts
 
 
Oh, boy! One of the coolest Christmas episodes ever! Married With Children announced its subversive presence on nascent network Fox back in 1987 by offing old St. Nick, or at least a muscatel-chugging mall approximation of same who plummeted from a helicopter into the Bundy backyard...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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