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2012
Apr
21
FOX IS 25, AND BART SIMPSON IS STILL IN GRADE SCHOOL By Diane Werts
 
 
Crazy like a Fox! It's impossible to overstate the influence this outrageous "fourth network" has had on TV since it stormed into prime time in April 1987 -- yes, 25 years ago, which accounts for Sunday night's clips-and-reunions salute, Fox's 25th Anniversary Special...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
20
TRUE CRIME: THE 9/11 DECEPTION By Diane Werts
 
 
Real life these days seems to provide the best mystery tales of all. And there's a doozy told Friday night in The Woman Who Wasn't There, the 8-9:30 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
7
EVENT: TITANIC IS ALL OVER TV By Diane Werts
 
 
TV has scheduled a titanic number of shows about the RMS Titanic leading up to April 15's 100th anniversary of the legendary ship's sinking. Documentaries, miniseries dramas, new investigations -- anything Titanic-related is finding its way to the tube over the next week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
3
FLICK PICKS: MORE 'MOCKINGBIRD' By Diane Werts
 
 
This week, PBS's "American Masters" is profiling novelist Harper Lee, and cable's USA is airing her "To Kill a Mockingbird" in honor of both the 50th anniversary of the film...Now President Barack Obama is part of the salute...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
2
FLICK PICKS: 5 NIGHTS OF DORIS DAY By Diane Werts
 
 
She's more of an actress, and an icon, than you think. The perennially underrated Doris Day gets a different kind of Turner Classic Movies salute -- it's a week-long festival in all of which mid-century America's favorite blonde (sorry, Marilyn) proves herself adept...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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