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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
May
23
THE PRICE IS RIGHT PRIMETIME SPECIAL: SURVIVOR By David Bianculli
 
 
SPECIAL: This summer will see a marked re-emergence of prime-time network game shows, and CBS is doing it with an aggressively cross-promotional approach. For example, The Price Is Right, hosted by daytime host Drew Carey, is presenting prime-time special editions featuring casts from CBS reality competition series. Tonight it’s Survivor, with that show’s host, Jeff Probst, along for the ride – and later on, it’s The Price of Right editions starring players from The Amazi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
23
GOTHAM By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 2 finale for Gotham, and it finds a lot of the inmates who have been experimented on by Hugo Strange discovering a way to escape not only his clutches, but the facility where they’ve been imprisoned. And that includes the recently resurrected Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
23
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Between the ABC and CW prime-time incarnations of this amiable improv comedy series, this marks the Season 12 return of Whose Line, in which host Aisha Tyler challenges her cast members – Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie and others, along with the week’s celebrity guest – to have fun with characters and situations she throws at them on the spot. There aren’t many “fun for the whole family” shows left on television, but Whose Line Is It
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
AMC TRANSLATES GRAPHIC NOVEL 'PREACHER' INTO A SERIES By David Hinckley
 
 
Adapting Garth Ennis’s Preacher for television has some of the same degree of difficulty as wrestling with God, so it’s impressive that after the first few episodes, the adapter team is still standing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
60 MINUTES By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week, 60 Minutes presented a tribute to long-time correspondent Morley Safer, which he was able to watch and enjoy: “It’s been a wonderful run,” he wrote afterward, in what would be his last missive on Twitter. Safer died Thursday at age 84, after presenting 919 stories on 60 Minutes since joining that show is 1970. Before that, his most famous story, his “Zippo report” from Vietnam in 1965, almost singlehandedly turned Vietnam into “the living-room war.&
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
2016 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS By David Bianculli
 
 
If you’re interested: Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform tonight. So are the long-dormant The Go-Gos.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “The Door,” and includes, according to the on-air promo, a new character or two, as well as a new confrontation and a potential new alliance.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
PREACHER By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is a warning, not a recommendation. I came to AMC’s latest comic-book adaptation with an open mind and eager expectations, and left it, after watching the premiere episode, with no desire whatsoever to see any subsequent episodes. Yes, it’s based on a cult comic with a loyal fan base, and those fans will get three extended action sequences in the pilot, which stars Dominic Cooper as the title character. But for the uninitiated, Preacher is so disjointed and diss
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
PENNY DREADFUL By David Bianculli
 
 
Now here’s a show that’s fun, and scary and disturbing, in all the right ways. And this season it’s added both Dracula and Dr. Jekyll into its gothic mix. Eva Green stars – and should get an Emmy nomination for how compelling she is here.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
21
HBO GOES 'ALL THE WAY' IN REVEALING THE COMPLEXITY OF LBJ By David Hinckley
 
 
The HBO Lyndon Johnson drama All the Way starts from the bold premise that the former President was larger than life, then proves it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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