DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2013
Jan
8
 
 
NEW TIME: This time shift is only a half hour from Kimmel’s former midnight slot, but for him, and for ABC, it’s a step in the right direction. It replaces Nightline, which hasn’t been as valuable since Ted Koppel left, and pits Kimmel directly against NBC’s Jay Leno and CBS’s David Letterman. Another round of the late-night talk-show war begins – but notice, this time, how much less notice it’s getting.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
Frontline's new documentary on former Washington D.C. public school Chancellor Michelle Rhee teaches some valuable lessons about how we're able — or unable — to change American education...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
Deception is fairly far from being a terrible series. But it's not nearly compelling enough to merit a prolonged string-along...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
On this day in 1982, NBC introduced the drama, Fame, a series spun from the same-name 1980 film...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
This 1988 Roman Polanski movie uses the city of Paris as a primary character, as the backdrop for a Hitchcockian thriller about an ordinary man caught by an underworld of deadly intrigue. Harrison Ford – an excellent equivalent of Hitchcock’s favorite leading man, Jimmy Stewart – plays a doctor attending an overseas medical convention with his wife. After the wife vanishes, the good doctor searches Paris to find her, teaming up with the most unlikely of Paris guides: a young he
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
This 1965 film was directed and co-written by Federico Fellini, and is one of the wildly imaginative visual narratives that solidified his reputation as a world-class pioneering film director.  It stars Giulietta Masina as a woman haunted by, among other things, the infidelity of her husband, a problem that is solved with insights from, for starters, a friendly prostitute. Masina was Fellini’s wife, making her nakedness here – emotionally, that is – all the more intimate.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
If you’ve watched any or all of the dozens of college bowls this year, they’ve all been leading up to, and you’ve all been waiting for, this one. Notre Dame, ranked No. 1, plays Alabama, ranked No. 2, for bragging rights to the national championship title.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
In Mexico, more than 50 journalists have been killed, or have vanished without a trace, in the past six years, while reporting on the Mexican drug trade. This new edition of P.O.V. follows some of the stubbornly brave and inquisitive reporters at Zeta, an independent newsweekly based in Tijuana. In the United States, it’s the newspapers that are dying. In Mexico, shockingly, it’s the reporters. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
Part 1 of 8. This 2004 documentary series has been updated, with two new installments to finish it off and update the story of  Michael Peterson, who in 2001 called authorities to report that his wife had fallen down the stairs, to her death, in their lavish North Carolina home. It’s a call, and a case, that quickly uncovered, and unraveled, an entire different set of mysteries, accusations and surprises – all of which led to Peterson being charged with murder. Even without the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
7
 
 
PBS and local member stations no longer provide enough regular time slots for the late Fred Rogers’ brilliantly sincere TV series, so parents have to pick up the slack for themselves...there are still some DVD stand-alone episodes worth collecting on DVD that are a great starting place for introducing a new generation of the soothing, inspirational shows of Fred Rogers...