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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Jan
13
'2 BROKE GIRLS' KUDOS OR CATCALLS? By Bill Brioux
 
 
If it ain't 2 Broke Girls, don't fix it. That seemed to be Michael Patrick King's take away from Wednesday's surprisingly combative CBS press tour session. The Sex and the City creator's hit show was hammered over what some critics see as the depiction of ethnic stereotypes. Hitfix critic Alan Sepinwall, who challenged King during the session and got all but horsewhipped for it, has his detailed take on the brouhaha here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
12
WITHOUT QUESTION, 'CHELSEA' IS LAME By Alan Pergament
 
 
I have an answer to the question in the new NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? Let's hope that it won't be there for long...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
12
CHARLIE SHEEN'S STEALTH PRESS TOUR SESSION By Bill Brioux
 
 
Maybe it had something to do with the connection to his father, but encountering Charlie Sheen at press tour was almost like coming face to face with Kurtz in Apocalypse Now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
12
BILL MOYERS RESURFACES -- FIRST WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, THEN ON HIS OWN NEW SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 
Bill Moyers is back -- twice! This weekend, he'll make you think, as he launches the inaugural edition of public TV's Moyers & Company. But already this week, he's made you laugh -- as Stephen Colbert's guest on Tuesday's installment of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Not many people can parse the differences between tax breaks and tax dodges on one show, and screech owls and hoot owls on another. But Moyers can, and does...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
11
ARE YOU THERE, BAD TV? IT'S ME, 'CHELSEA' -- AND 'ROB,' TOO By David Bianculli
 
 
If you're wondering why this week's BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS provide no mention of either the new NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? or the new CBS sitcom Rob, let me be clear. It's not an oversight. It's a judgment. Both shows are terrible -- but Chelsea Handler's program is the more disappointing, because she's been so clever and successful at hosting talk shows and writing memoirs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
11
BILL MOYERS IS BACK, SO LET'S GET BACK TO MOYERS -- STARTING WITH 'JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF MYTH' By Eric Gould
 
 
One of the greatest television miniseries ever made -- and made 25 years ago, no less -- is a documentary. Actually, a discussion: Two older men in chairs, talking. For six hours...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
9
'CBS THIS MORNING' TAKES FIRST STEPS, DOESN'T STUMBLE... AND HEADS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION By David Bianculli
 
 
By watching its premiere telecast, you can tell much more about a news program's immediate weaknesses than its potential strengths. Chemistry and reputation take time to build, but groan-inducing mistakes, missteps and poor editorial judgments are there from the start...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
9
THIS PAGE!: HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE By Diane Werts
 
 
You never know what you'll find at TVWW. Or where. So be sure to check out all the little nooks and crannies of this home page. (If you can find the cranny...)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
6
PARK IN FRONT OF THE TV AND GORGE -- ON 'HOUSE OF LIES' AND OTHER GREAT OFFERINGS By David Bianculli
 
 
Sunday, in addition to the NFL playoff games, there are a ridiculous number of fresh TV offerings -- way too many to mention in BEST BETS alone. But on my most recent radio report for Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I tried. Read on for details about not only Showtime's House of Lies and PBS's Season 2 of Downton Abbey, but NBC's new The Firm, BBC America's Absolutely Fabulous special, and more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jan
6
SKETCH COMEDY FROM THE CRUNCHY FRINGE By Eric Gould
 
 
Portlandia isn't a show that bursts with big laughs or lurches into irreverent turns. It's more like watching nerdy kids spinning goofy improv in theater class. And that feel is due in part to its locale -- it's all shot in Portland, Oregon, the fertile left coast that sprouts the hyper-moral, alt-eco-culture quirks the show thrives on satirizing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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