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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
May
31
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
On this new edition, Maher’s guests include NBC News investigative reporter Michael Isikoff and writer Paul Rudnick, whose If You Ask Me column on show biz, written under the pen name Libby Gelman-Waxner, is one of the funniest columns around, if you ask me.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
31
'TREEHOUSE MASTERS' DOESN'T GET OFF THE GROUND By Eric Gould
 
 
Animal Planet's new Treehouse Masters may be MTV Cribs for Arborists or a Lifestyles of the Rich and Nesting. It's also an affront to architecture...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
31
MARON By David Bianculli
 
 
This week’s show has Marc Maron deciding, after some rough dates with younger women, to try dating someone nearer his own age. And when the woman in question is played by Gina Gershon, it’s hard to feel anything but envy for his new direction.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
EASTWOOD DIRECTS: THE UNTOLD STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
Richard Schickel, Clint Eastwood’s biographer and the documentarian who made The Eastwood Factor in 2010, presents a new TCM companion piece, focusing specifically on Eastwood’s work behind the camera. That part of the actor’s career began more than 40 years ago,with 1971’s Play Misty for Me, and includes Best Director (and Best Picture) Oscar wins for 1992’s Unforgiven and 2004’s Million Dollar Baby. Interviewees for this new biography include Steven Spielber
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
NBA PLAYOFFS: MIAMI HEAT VS. INDIANA PACERS By David Bianculli
 
 
Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, which was played in Indiana, featured plenty of bad calls to enrage fans of both the Pacers and the Miami Heat. Regardless, the series is now tied at 2-2,and Game 5 returns to Miami.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
MOTIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
Katharine Isabelle, who played the titular werewolf-infected teen in 2000’s clever independent movie Ginger Snaps, guest stars as a different sort of man-eater in this new episode of ABC’s newest crime drama. She plays a diner waitress who serves up murder plots as her daily special.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
Graham Norton packs his shows with celebrities, and brings most of them out at the same time to interact with each other. It results in a talk show atmosphere unlike any other, as you can witness this week, by watching a new edition featuring Will and Jaden Smith, Bradley Cooper, Michael Douglas, Heather Graham, and Selena Gomez. And some special guests, too, which you can preview on today's Video Worth Watching. It's Worth Watching just to see why Norton has one of the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
BIRD By David Bianculli
 
 
Part of tonight's TCM salute to Clint Eastwood as a director, this 1988 film stars Forest Whitaker as the hard-living, hard-playing saxophone player Charlie Parker. Samuel E. Wright is featured, too, as Dizzy Gillespie.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
30
A 'FRESH PRINCE' REUNION By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Will Smith orchestrates a mini-Fresh Prince reunion on BBC America's The Graham Norton Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
29
INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO By David Bianculli
 
 
On tonight’s new, two-hour edition, host James Lipton celebrates his 250th show, and does so by inviting several guests for interviews in front of his students – guests who include Silver Linings Playbook co-stars Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, Conan O’Brien, and Hugh Jackman. The 250 show mark is significant: Given Lipton’s penchant for asking the same questions to end each interviews, that’s a lot of “favorite swear words” on the record for posteri
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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