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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
Mar
23
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
This is an observation, not a recommendation. Tonight NBC reveals the flaw in presenting its Saturday-night “same-week” prime-time reruns of new late-night episodes of Saturday Night Live. Namely, when the late-night show is in reruns, then the Saturday-night show has nothing new to present. So tonight, we get a cut-down Jeremy Renner / Maroon 5 episode of SNL at 10 p.m. ET, and a repeat Adam Levine / Kendrick Lamar SNL at 11:29 p.m. ET. If you’re going to watch both, especiall
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
23
GOLDEN DREAMS, BROKEN PROMISES By Eric Gould
 
 
The POV documentary Girl Model offers an inside look at the rags-to-riches world of modeling, where money and success are not guaranteed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
NCAA 2013 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
Another day loaded with games, available on CBS and the Turner network of cable and satellite outlets. The first game televised is on CBS at 12:15 p.m. ET, when Duke (ranked No. 2 in the Midwest) faces Albany (No. 15). In prime time, CBS’s games include Ohio State (No. 2 in the West) vs. Iona (No. 15) at 7:15 p.m. ET, and Notre Dame (No. 7 in the West) vs. Iowa State (No. 10) at 9:45 p.m. For other games, check out today’s lineups on TNT, TBS and TruTv.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
WAR HORSE By David Bianculli
 
 
What Steven Spielberg lost in converting this stage play to this 2011 movie was its overt symbolism, and the beauty of the onstage “puppet” that symbolized the titular animal. What he gained, though, was a majestic creature with spirit to spare, and a brilliantly photographed film about a horse and his trainer, and their separate grim journeys through World War I. Jeremy Irvine stars as the trainer – but watch for Peter Mullan as Ted Narracott, who figures prominently in War Ho
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
L'AMORE By David Bianculli
 
 
When is a Fellini movie not a Fellini movie (not completely, anyway)? When it’s this 1948 Italian film, because it’s directed by Roberto Rossellini, who also wrote the screenplay. But others who contributed to the story include both Federico Fellini and Jean Cocteau, and Fellini himself, in this rarely televised movie, has an onstage role as well, as the Tramp. Anna Magnani (pictured) stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s edition features a report by Ted Koppel, who usually reports on international issues. Tonight, though, he focuses on the United States, and this country’s sometimes shocking treatment of juvenile prisoners, whom Koppel finds stuck away in adult prisons, sometimes put in solitary confinement for their own protection.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Among tonight’s scheduled guests: Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and veteran music executive Clive Davis.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
NBC'S NEVER-ENDING STORY: LENO ON THE ROPES AGAIN By Ed Bark
 
 
The NBC network, flailing and failing in prime-time and now an early morning loser as well, is again preparing a coffin for the one guy who’s still winning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
22
YOU CAN JUDGE A SYFY FLICK BY ITS TITLE By Ed Bark
 
 
In the proud tradition of Sharktopus, Mansquito and Mongolian Death Worm, Syfy presents Chupacabra vs The Alamo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
21
NCAA 2013 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s a full day of basketball, with CBS, TNT, TruTV and TBS all taking part. The earliest game televised is Michigan State (25-8) vs. Valparaiso (26-7) on CBS at 12:15 p.m. ET, followed on TruTV by Butler (26-8) vs. Bucknell (25-8) at 12:40 p.m. ET. Top-seeded Midwest team Louisville plays last-second squeak-in North Carolina AT&T (20-16) at 6:50 p.m. ET on TBS, while top-seeded West team Gonzaga plays Southern (23-9) at 4:10 p.m. ET, also on TBS. In prime time tonight, the CBS games i
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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