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2015
Oct
15
ROB LOWE FINDS 'THE GRINDER' ANYTHING BUT A GRIND By David Hinckley
 
 
While Rob Lowe’s character in the new Fox sitcom The Grinder may be more than slightly delusional, Lowe says his own life as he has passed the age of 50 has become, well, rather grounded...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
HE RACED FOR A BOMB TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HITLER By David Hinckley
 
 
John Benjamin Hickey jokes that his role on Manhattan is both a great acting gig and a remedial college course...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
MARY TYLER MOORE: BEFORE HUMBLING LOU GRANT, SHE SHATTERED THE TV MOM By David Hinckley
 
 
PBS’s hour-long tribute to Mary Tyler Moore Tuesday mostly focuses on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which I suppose it should. When you’re talking Mary Tyler Moore, however, there are those among us whose go-to image isn’t Mary Richards. It’s Laura Petrie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
FINDING A PERSONAL CONNECTION TO SAVING THE WORLD IN WWII By David Hinckley
 
 
Rachel Brosnahan apologizes for politely stabbing little pieces of her salad as she talks about starting her second year as Abby Isaacs on WGN America’s Manhattan. It’s been a busy day for Brosnahan. Actually, it’s been a busy couple of years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
11
TED DANSON ON 'FARGO,' TV, AND 'HIGH NOON' By David Hinckley
 
 
Ted Danson, who’s put on his parka and thermal underwear to join the second season of FX’s Fargo, has a simple suggestion for how viewers might orient themselves to the show’s sometimes-quirky world...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
11
'FARGO' TRAVELS BACK TO THE REAGAN ERA By David Hinckley
 
 
Apparently a lot of Fargo fans have decided that if Noah Hawley could pull off the impossible by adapting their beloved movie into a TV series once, then maybe, heck, he could do it again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
8
FIRST CBN, THEN ABC FAMILY, NOW...FREEFORM? By David Hinckley
 
 
EDITOR'S NOTE: With this posting, we welcome yet another tenured TV writer to the TV Worth Watching family: DAVID HINCKLEY, former long-time TV and radio critic and critic at large for the New York Daily News...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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
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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