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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2011
Sep
26
CHANGING CHANNELS: HI TO H2, HDTHEATER TO VELOCITY By Diane Werts
 
 
Are you ready for some new networks? Well, actually, old networks, reinventing themselves in search of new viewers. History International is now H2. And on Tuesday (Oct. 4), Discovery's HD Theater becomes Velocity. HI hasn't actually been "international" for awhile now, unless you think Secret Missions of the Civil War has a global focus. But it's probably now more "history" than ever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
24
CALENDAR: NETWORK/CABLE FALL PREMIERE DATES By Diane Werts
 
 
TVWW has listings when your fave shows returned or will be returning, or did/will hit the air for the first time. (In which case, they're probably not your faves yet)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
18
DVD: CAN THE PACKAGING GET WORSE? By Diane Werts
 
 
Just got Star Wars on Blu-ray when it came out Friday, and couldn't wait to open it. Then I opened it. NOT again. Yes, again. The packaging for this super-duper much-hyped better-than-ever souped-up high-def edition is indeed worse for disc-keeping than previous editions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
11
AND THE WINNER IS: 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' TOPS PRE-EMMY EMMYS By Diane Werts
 
 
Boardwalk Empire has 7 Emmys already, a week before this year's Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out on Fox Sept. 18. How so? Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmys ceremony -- the annual precursor honoring behind-the-camera work in "crafts" categories like casting, costuming and sound...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
7
TAKE NOTE: THE FINAL FRONTIER REACHES MIDDLE AGE By Diane Werts
 
 
Do you know what happened on Sept. 8, 1966? Well, neither do the TV networks. Or cable channels. Because there's a big anniversary Thursday. And no one on the tube seems to be taking note of it. Gene Roddenberry's culture-shifting space series Star Trek debuted 45 years ago -- Sept. 8, 1966 -- on NBC. Before that, there was no Mr. Spock. No warp drive. No beam-me-up-Scotty...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
6
FALL TV: NETWORK PREVIEW SPECIALS By Diane Werts
 
 
So what's new on the networks this fall? We're preparing our own TVWW fall preview, but in the meantime, you can find out from the networks themselves. They've all produced half-hour fall preview specials that are unreeling on local stations and related cable channels -- not to mention online in various formats...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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