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Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Sep
25
SHARK TANK By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s the Season 7 premiere for Shark Tank, and tonight, to start things off, there’s a guest shark in the water: actor and producer Ashton Kutcher.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
25
AMERICAN MASTERS: "THE WOMEN'S LIST" By David Bianculli
 
 
America, meet 15 women who have created and defined American culture, as selected and profiled by list-compiling photographer and documentarian Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (The Black List, The Latino List, etc.). It’s a one-hour documentary, so that’s about four minutes per woman, tops – but what women! The list includes actress Edie Falco, singer Alicia Keys, TV writer-producer Shonda Rhimes, politician Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (pictured, in on
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
25
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
What a lineup tonight: Bill Maher’s scheduled guests include John Cleese, Jane Goodall and Ron Reagan. Name another show where you’re likely to see that lineup…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
25
LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli
 
 
Scandal star Kerry Washington is one of tonight’s scheduled guests, but another guest is the one who’s really drawing me in. I’ve seen her on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and on Ellen DeGeneres’ Ellen talk show, among other places, and each time, she amazes me with her simple, unshakeable humanity: young activist Malala Yousafza, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
25
A MASTERFUL 'AMERICAN MASTERS': ENGAGING PORTRAITS OF 15 FASCINATING PEOPLE IN AN HOUR By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
TV watchers who can look over the following list and discover at least one person about whom they would like to know more owe themselves an hour of top-notch viewing Sept. 25...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
24
BIRTH OF A BIG MESS IN NBC'S 'HEROES REBORN' By Ed Bark
 
 

Regarding Heroes Reborn, might there be the possibility of a historic class action suit on the part of viewers who end up suffering from whiplash, dizziness and overall head-hurt? Saying this NBC reboot is all over the place might qualify as the understatement of the millennium...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
24
NBC'S ‘THE PLAYER’ MIGHT NOT WANT TO BET ON ITS SURVIVAL By Ed Bark
 
 

Automatic weapons fire, screeching/smoking motor vehicles, flying fists and daring last-minute rescues are very much in The Player’s playbook. Darn, there’s dialogue, too...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
24
GREY'S ANATOMY By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: The night of Shonda Rhimes returns with all-new episodes this evening. Season 12 of her flagship series, Grey’s Anatomy, begins the celebration, followed at 9 p.m. ET by Season 5 of Scandal and at 10 ET by Season 2 of How to Get Away with Murder. But this season of Grey’s is unlike any other, because Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is now a widow…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
24
HEROES REBORN By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The most welcome sight in this reboot of NBC’s once exciting, then disappointing, long-dormant superhero series is that of Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet, the guy with glasses, the first of the old series’ stars to be seen in this sequel. (Another pops up for a surprise cameo in this two-hour premiere, and a few other stars of Heroes are scheduled to appear in coming weeks – but others are not.) The action in Heroes Reborn picks up five years after the original se
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
24
THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL By David Bianculli
 
 
The New York Giants have done nothing this season but squander leads and disappoint their fans – who will be sitting in the stands for a home game as the Giants, with only four days since the loss that dropped them to 0-2, face the 1-1 Washington Redskins.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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