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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2010
May
31
DVD UPDATE: 'LIFE' (US) VS. 'LIFE' (UK) By Diane Werts
 
 
Now's the perfect time for the return of our weekly TV DVD coverage because June 1 marks a major TV release smackdown: Oprah Winfrey vs. David Attenboroug! They're both narrating the epic nature series Life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
29
GUEST BLOG #94: TOM BRINKMOELLER ON THE TRADITION OF HOLIDAY TV CONCERTS By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Instead of taking the annual PBS summer holiday concerts for granted, contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller goes to the source to ferret out all sorts of facts, figures and back-stage anecdotes -- just in time for Memorial Day...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
26
GUEST BLOG #93: PSST! WANNA BUY "BROOKLYN BRIDGE"? SORRY, TOM BRINKMOELLER REPORTS, IT'S NOT THAT EASY... By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: I'm so proud of our TV WORTH WATCHING contributors. Tom Brinkmoeller, through a lot of dogged reporting, has news for anyone eagerly awaiting the DVD release of Gary David Goldberg's superb "Brooklyn Bridge" CBS series. Alas, the news isn't necessarily good...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
26
FALL FLASH: DIANE HOLLOWAY ASSESSES THE 2010-11 LINEUP By Diane Werts
 
 
Diane Werts here . . . to let you know that the words below come from our Diane2 -- Diane Holloway, who's digested the news from last week's network upfronts to let you know what's new, what's back and what's gone for good.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
26
WATCH THIS: TONIGHT'S REPORT ON UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY BILL HELPS DEFINE CURRENT TV By Diane Werts
 
 
The Current TV channel has had a hard time getting traction since its 2005 launch, partly because of its original schedule of short-take video "pods," and partly because, well, what the heck IS Current?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
24
CONFESSION: HOW 'LOST' LOST ME (AND SO MANY MILLIONS OF OTHER VIEWERS) By Diane Werts
 
 
I used to love Lost, but my attention steadily dwindled as the plot's conniptions progressively ramped up...don't complicate your drama into something so intricate and internecine that only a small subset of the audience will have the time, energy or interest to follow it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
24
THE "24: FINALE: IN THE END, THE CLOCK COUNTS DOWN TO 00:00:00 By David Bianculli
 
 
The three most powerful punches of the Fox "24" finale all came at the very end -- like one final triple flurry of potent, emotional "Ka-Chunk, Ka-Chunk" sounds as the clock counted down one last time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
23
ABC'S "LOST" FINALE: DEATH, BE RATHER PROUD By David Bianculli
 
 
The ending of ABC's "Lost", whatever it turned out to be, wasn't going to be able to please all of the people all of the time. But even with an unsettling core "explanation" and some frustrating unanswered questions, Sunday's 2.5-hour finale was one entertaining movie-length wrap-up...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
21
GUEST BLOG #92: TOM BRINKMOELLER SAYS WATCHING "AMERICAN EXPERIENCE" IS ANYTHING BUT DEPRESSION By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller looks at the next two "American Experience" presentations on PBS, and finds their Depression-era topics clearly pertinent to today...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
May
20
NEWEST TVWW CONTEST: GUESS THE OPENING-WEEKEND GROSSES FOR TWO MORE TV-INSPIRED MOVIES By David Bianculli
 
 
It's been a while since we mounted a TV WORTH WATCHING contest for readers, offering tacky prizes for a predictive puzzler. So here's a new one, and it's a two-parter: Guess the opening-weekend grosses for two movies based on TV fare -- "MacGruber" and "Sex and the City 2" -- and, by so doing, predict which one will outdraw the other...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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