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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Sep
30
IF YOU WEREN’T EXPECTING MUCH FROM WOODY ALLEN’S ‘CRISIS IN SIX SCENES,’ YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED By David Hinckley
 
 
Woody Allen’s first TV series, Crisis In Six Scenes, is kind of a mess...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
30
‘TIMELESS’ PUTS NBC BACK INTO PAST TENSE By Ed Bark
 
 
TV’s latest time-travel series begins its limited present-day activities with a whopper. Only it’s completely true, according to latter day accounts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
29
WITH 'LUKE CAGE,' A HESITANT SUPERHERO HITS NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
Netflix continues to do right by the Marvel universe with Luke Cage, whose 13 episodes drop on Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
27
WHEN VIEWERS TUNE OUT DRAMAS ABOUT MUSIC By David Hinckley
 
 

For rock ‘n’ roll-based television shows, the hits don’t seem to have kept on coming...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
26
WILL & GRACE & HILLARY & DONALD By Linda Donovan
 
 
The stars of a certain sitcom that’s been off the air for a while have been sending subtle messages via social media over the last few days...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
25
NEVER MIND THE BOAT RACE OF FIRST-WEEK TV RATINGS – THE REAL RACE BEGINS IN WEEK TWO By Alex Strachan
 
 
The boat race is over. The horse race is about to begin. Winds of change might be buffeting the TV industry, but some things never change, based on the evidence of the past week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
25
STARZ' 'POWER' CLOSES S-3 AS ONE OF TV'S TOP CRIME DRAMAS By David Hinckley
 
 
Starz’s intense drama Power wraps up its third season Sunday in its favorite situation, with a target on pretty much everyone’s back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
24
BEST BETS UPDATE By David Bianculli
 
 
TVWW Update -- We expect David to post his own hello to TVWW readers sometime very soon...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
24
CHARLES OSGOOD GOES GENTLY, ONE MORE TIME, INTO 'SUNDAY MORNING' By David Hinckley
 
 
We all say we want calm, rational, gentle and literate commentary on radio and television. It calls for a melancholy sigh, then, that Charles Osgood will wind up the TV portion of his career this weekend, hosting his final Sunday Morning broadcast at 9 a.m...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
22
DON'T BE SURPRISED IF 'PITCH' GOES ON THE DL EARLY By David Hinckley
 
 
Fox’s new baseball drama Pitch just misses the strike zone. Rats...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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