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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Sep
8
'COLD FEET' REMINDS US THAT YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T OWN THE MARKET ON ANXIETY AND TURMOIL By David Hinckley
 
 
The revived British series Cold Feet hums along on the admirable premise that soapy, angst-driven life crises are not only for the young...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
7
CELEBRATING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SYFY By David Hinckley
 
 
Once upon a time, in an America not so long ago or far away, science fiction was a cult. Today it’s more like an ATM...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
7
JENNIFER BEALS EXAMINES THE THRILL OF PLAYING MARGO IN ‘THE LAST TYCOON’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Even though she’s starring in a TV series rooted in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Jennifer Beals isn’t sure Fitzgerald could have written her character...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
6
‘YOU’RE THE WORST’ RETURNS FOR SEASON 4 By David Hinckley
 
 
Jimmy and Gretchen never took the good times particularly well on FXX’s You’re the Worst. You can imagine how they’re coping with the bad times...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
4
EXAMINING THE LIFE, DEATH, AND INFLUENCE OF ‘BIGGIE: THE LIFE OF NOTORIOUS B.I.G.’ By David Hinckley
 
 
If the late rapper Biggie Smalls returned for long enough to make a movie about his life, it would look exactly like A&E’s new Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
3
ACORN REPRISES 'THE GOVERNOR' FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND By David Hinckley
 
 
Fans of Janet McTeer, which should mean everyone, can get a lovely serving of her early work when Acorn TV revives her 1995-95 series The Governor just in time for Labor Day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
2
SHELLEY BERMAN 1925 – 2017 By David Hinckley
 
 
Shelley Berman may have been the first person whose career was crippled by reality television. Okay, the second, if you count Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But McCarthy deserved it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
1
'NEIL GAIMAN’S LIKELY STORIES' TAKES A DIFFERENT SLANT ON FRIGHT By David Hinckley
 
 
AMC’s boutique horror channel Shudder takes a different tack this week with Neil Gaiman, one of the genre’s modern masters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
1
‘RICHARD LINKLATER – DREAM IS DESTINY’ SHOWS A BIG TALENT MAKING SMALL FILMS By David Hinckley
 
 
Richard Linklater may not be the best-known modern American movie director, but he may be the one that most other directors would secretly like to emulate...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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