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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2009
Dec
31
GOOD SPORTS: FUN FOOTBALL REBELS By Diane Werts
 
 
These guys knew how to have fun, so it's perfect that their story is running on New Year's Eve. Rebels With a Cause: The Story of the American Football League showcases the 1960s upstart league whose run-and-gun energy wasn't confined to on-field play...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
31
NEW YEAR'S TV: MARATHONS AND MORE By Diane Werts
 
 
New Year's Eve holds a host of toast opportunities, and New Year's Day has its own attractions on the tube...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
29
CBS "KENNEDY CENTER HONORS" SPECIAL IS SO GOOD, YOU MUST WATCH -- AND TAKE NOTES, BECAUSE AFTERWARD, THERE'S A QUIZ By David Bianculli
 
 
Slipped into the dead TV week between Christmas and New Year's is one reliable annual treat: The CBS Kennedy Center Honors, which salutes, each year, a quintet of powerful performers from various arenas in the arts. It's always one one of my favorite TV shows of the year -- and tonight, with its amazing list of honorees and artists, it's the best Kennedy Center Honors presentation in years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
25
YULE TUBE: THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY PRESENT! By Diane Werts
 
 
They suffered, so you don't have to. Herewith find 1978's entire execrable Star Wars Holiday Special boiled down to five minutes. Now you can savor all its stupefying awfulness without killing two hours of your life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
25
YULE TUBE: MORE ONLINE NOEL By Diane Werts
 
 
One more posting pointing you toward holiday streams . . .
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
23
MORE "FRESH AIR" TODAY, WITH MY YEAR-END TOP 10 LIST -- BUT HERE'S A PREVIEW, AND AN EXCLUSIVE BONUS, MY BOTTOM 5 By David Bianculli
 
 
Today on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross", Terry will interview me for the second time in a month. Last time it was for the launch of my book, and today it's to recap the year in television -- including my Top 10 List for 2009, which I'll share here -- and my Bottom 5, which will be presented here exclusively...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
22
TODAY, "FRESH AIR"... TOMORROW, "FRESH AIR" AGAIN, MAYBE... TWO CHATS, WITH TWO DIFFERENT TERRYS By David Bianculli
 
 
It's a busy week for us here at TV WORTH WATCHING. Today I interview Terry Gilliam, whose new movie, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, is the final film to star Heath Ledger -- in a role that was completed by Johnny Depp and others...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
22
YULE TUBE: COOL CHRISTMAS SHOWS ONLINE! By Diane Werts
 
 
Haven't been able to find your favorite Christmas shows in the TV listings? Try online streams. You'd be surprised how many tube holidays can be watched somewhere on the web...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
22
YULE TUBE: COOL CHRISTMAS SHOWS ONLINE! By Diane Werts
 
 
Haven't been able to find your favorite Christmas shows in the TV listings? Try online streams. You'd be surprised how many tube holidays can be watched somewhere on the web -- from Jack Benny to Lou Grant, from Donna Reed to Donny & Marie, from Liberace to ALF, from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip to 3rd Rock From the Sun...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Dec
21
YULE TUBE: 'BEWITCHED,' 'BECKER,' 'BARNEY MILLER' AND MORE By Diane Werts
 
 
Updates by the dozens at our Christmas TV listings! Look for memorable episodes from the '60s (Bewitched), '70s (Barney Miller), '80s (Matlock), '90s (Becker) and '00s (7th Heaven)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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