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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Jul
4
1994: LAUNCH OF CABLE'S 'AMERICA'S TALKING' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1994, NBC launched the 24-hour cable network, America's Talking. The channel's creator, CNBC president and chief executive Roger Ailes, envisioned the cable network as a place average viewers could find talk shows featuring on a mix of news, health and relationship programming, newsmaker interviews, and more.America's Talking (and CNBC) was based in Fort Lee, N.J. and featured simple (and shared) bare-bones sets. AT hosts included Steve Doocy, who co-hosted the morning news talk
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
'THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW' DVDS LACK NOSTALGIC EXTRAS By Diane Werts
 
 
A great way to honor Andy Griffith is to pop a disc into the player and watch the show that made him a TV superstar, but when it comes to bonus features, we get zippo, zero, zilch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
1999: LAST TELECAST FOR 'THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
This day in 1999 marked the last telecast of the CBS drama, The Magnificent Seven: The Series. The show was an adaptation of John Sturges' classic 1960 movie of the same name starring Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Eli Wallach and Robert Vaughn, in which seven men from different walks of life band together to protect a town from the lawlessness of the West. The 1960 movie was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film, Seven Samura
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
THE TREE OF LIFE By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s a night in which movies are about the only TV offerings worth watching. For starters, there’s the most recent film by Terrence Malick, who directs a movie, on average, every eight years. This one, from 2011, has to do with memory and relationships and life and death and… well, a whole lot more. Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
THE DEBT By David Bianculli
 
 
In 2010, Helen Mirren starred in this psychological action film about a Mossad agent who suspects that a Nazi war criminal she hunted down and killed three decades earlier, and whose death made her internationally renowned, may actually be alive.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli
 
 
From 1939, one of the most popular and most famous films ever made: this sprawling, ambitious, colorful adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel of the Civil War. And let’s face it – TCM, with its lack of commercials and its fidelity to the film’s original image ratio, is a perfect place to watch it. Why wait until tomorrow, even if it is another day? Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND By David Bianculli
 
 
Charlie Kaufman, one of the most audacious and original screenwriters around, wrote this 2004 love story, which stars Jim Carrey as a man who goes to great lengths to get over his relationship with the love of his life, played by Kate Winslet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
TITANIC By David Bianculli
 
 
And here’s another Kate Winslet movie – the one that made her famous. From 1997, it’s James Cameron’s Oscar-winning, box-office-record-setting epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eventual true love of Winslet’s slowly blossoming Rose.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
THE PRISONER: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 
This surrealistic miniseries import slipped onto CBS in the summer of 1968 – stunning viewers then, and amazing them ever since. Forget the ill-conceived recent remake. This is the original, starring Patrick McGoohan as a British secret agent who resigns on principle, only to wake up in a remote island community – “The Village” – from which there is no escape...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
3
ANDY GRIFFITH, DEAD AT 86 By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Actor Andy Griffith, star of The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, died early today at his North Carolina home. He was 86...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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