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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
May
17
ABC OFFERS UP A TREAT WITH ‘DOWNWARD DOG’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Given how many hour-long TV dramas these days shoot for funny – Scorpion, iZombie -- there’s no reason a half-hour sitcom can’t shoot for poignant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
16
‘AMERICAN EPIC’ BRINGS EARLY MUSIC RECORDINGS TO LIFE By David Hinckley
 
 
I’m under no illusion that a whole lot of people will be excited about a PBS show that recounts the history of the Carter Family and the Memphis Jug Band...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
15
'FOREVER PURE' DOCUMENTARY SHOWS SPORTS ISN'T ALWAYS A GAME By David Hinckley
 
 
The new PBS documentary Forever Pure details another depressing example of how sports can be weaponized.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
14
THE REIGN OF ‘KING CHARLES III’ ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
If you want almost all your current perceptions of the British royal family obliterated, tune in King Charles III...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
12
AMAZON'S 'I LOVE DICK' EXPLORES MARRIAGE, ART AND ATTRACTION By David Hinckley
 
 

Up for another round of “No, no, what do you really think and how do you really feel?” Then you’ll want to spend Friday diving into Amazon’s new I Love Dick, an adaptation of Chris Kraus’s satiric 1997 novel...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
12
NETFILX'S NEW 'ANNE' MATCHES UP WITH THE GOOD ONES By David Hinckley
 
 

The sun rose in the East this morning, so it must be time for Anne of Green Gables to get adapted again. Happily, the new edition that arrives on the streaming service Netflix Friday, titled Anne With An E, is a good one...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
11
CHARLES BARKLEY TAKES THE COURT ON RACE By David Hinckley
 
 

As a TV sports commentator, Charles Barkley has been paid for years to be provocative. So it shouldn’t be surprising that in his first game as a conciliator – on the rather larger matter of race relations – he doesn’t always score...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
10
DAVID THEWLIS ON THE STORY OF V.M. VARGA OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Turns out the research for playing one of the most amoral psychos on television these days is simple: Turn on the news. “That was really how I did it,” says David Thewlis...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
7
‘THE LAST 100 DAYS OF DIANA’ IS A WORTHY EFFORT IN REMEMBERING THE PRINCESS, BUT A BIT OVERDONE By David Hinckley
 
 
Twenty years later, there may be no way to avoid getting melodramatic over the death of Princess Diana...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
6
‘BATMAN & BILL’ TELLS THE STORY OF THE BATTLING CREATORS OF THE CAPED CRUSADER By David Hinckley
 
 
Hulu’s new documentary Batman & Bill should engage even the casual comic book fan because, like all the best Batman capers, it has a solid villain...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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