Most fans likely knew Sam Shepard (1943-2017) for acting performances in The Right Stuff and Black Hawk Down... Probably less known though, is Shepard’s early career and legacy as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright...

2017

Jul

'VIKINGS' MINUS VIKING By Eric Gould

History Channel has released its trailer for Season 5 of Vikings at the recently finished Comic Con – the new season without its lead character Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) who came to the end of the line last year...

2017

Jul

SOME THINGS GO HAND IN HAND By Eric Gould

Here’s the pirate version of The Daily Show video posted to twitter showing new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s hand gestures, which veer very close to those of the President, when shown side by side. We presume the mimicry is a non-verbal way of emphasizing the commander in chief’s message, but a similar hairstyle will not be following. —Eric Gould

2017

Jul

IN MEMORY OF THE MAYOR OF QUAHOG By Eric Gould

Family Guy has released a tribute reel in memory of former Batman! star Adam West (1928-2017), who played a monumentally self-effacing version of himself as cartoon mayor of Peter Griffin’s fictional hometown of Quahog, Rhode Island... Family Guy is going ahead with three more episodes that West had already recorded parts for...

2017

Jul

COMING TO A BOIL By Eric Gould

Senator Al Franken gets in a few zingers here in interviews with David Letterman in his new Funny or Die web-series Boiling the Frog, which looks at the politics of climate change...

2017

Jul

DON’T COLOR (ALL OF) MY WORLD: LET’S NOT LEAVE BLACK AND WHITE BEHIND By Eric Gould

There’s no denying the “Oh, my God”, moment when you click on the colorized version of Mark Twain... But as tempting as it is, should colorization keep moving black and white TV and films to the rear?...

2017

Jul

ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL STAR IS BORN By Eric Gould

John Oliver's put his new acquisition, a was figure of lessor-known president Warren G. Harding, to work – starring in a new biopic about the ex-commander in chief along with some Hollywood heavyweights...

Posts 1-7 of 7 1

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption