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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Nov
23
VISIT AUSTRALIA IN THE 1950S WITH 'A PLACE TO CALL HOME' By David Hinckley
 
 
Whatever sharks may lurk in the waters off Australia, the Australian period soap A Place To Call Home hasn’t jumped them yet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
23
SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Happy Thanksgiving. Unveiling, for some reason, on Thanksgiving Day, filmmaker Spike Lee’s newest “joint” is a 10-part TV reexamination of his 1986 breakthrough film, She’s Gotta Have It. DaWanda Wise is cast in the role of Nola Darling, who navigates the streets of Fort Greene in Brooklyn as fluidly as she does the attentions of a series of eager suitors. In the Eighties, this character, and this movie, were all about power dynamics between men and woman
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
23
2017 MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE By David Bianculli
 
 
Starting at 9 a.m. in all time zones, it’s the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Live from New York, it’s Thursday morning! And watch on NBC, where the surviving members of the morning-show family won't be suffering from post-scandal depression...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
23
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: THE GOOD STARS By David Bianculli
 
 
Ella Ballentine is back as Anne Shirley in this telemovie sequel for the holidays, which co-stars Martin Sheen. It’s followed at 9:30 p.m. ET by the Anne of Green Gables remake, also made in 2016, that re-established Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved character of Anne with a charming new actress playing her. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
23
YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli
 
 
And speaking of charming, this sitcom has built up an enormous amount of good will in a very few episodes – at least with me. If you haven’t seen this Big Bang Theory spinoff as yet, tonight is a wonderful time to try.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
22
'GODLESS' IS YOUR TYPICAL WESTERN AND SO MUCH MORE By David Hinckley
 
 
Netflix’s new Godless cherishes the DNA of the classic epic Western...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
22
GODLESS By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: I’ve been waiting since Deadwood for another quality show such as this, and here it comes: The Western is back! Michelle Dockery, who already showed off her acting range by going aggressively from the pampered daughter of Downton Abbey to the Southern con artist in Good Behavior, takes on another very different genre and role here. In this seven-part Western drama, she plays a frontier woman who’s handy with a shotgun, twice a widow, and rebel enough to be attracted
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
22
BARBRA: THE MUSIC…THE MEM’RIES…THE MAGIC! By David Bianculli
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: This new music special from Barbra Streisand continues a sporadic yet continual string of solo concert TV performances she’s conducted, off and on and over the decades, since vaulting to stardom on Broadway in the 1960s. More than 50 years on, she’s still going, still in command of both the audience and most of her voice – and in this concert from Miami, which ended her recent (and allegedly farewell) tour, she chooses songs, visuals and between-song stories t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
22
THE GLENN MILLER STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
James Stewart continues as TCM’s Star of the Month, kicking off tonight’s prime time salute with 1954’s biopic in which he played bandleader Glenn Miller. It’s an entertaining little movie… if you’re In the Mood. Other Stewart films that follow include 1950’s Harvey (10:15 p.m. ET), 1958’s Bell, Book and Candle (12:15 a.m. ET), and 1954’s Rear Window (2:15 a.m. ET).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
22
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE THANKSGIVING By David Bianculli
 
 
I don’t care what more modern sketches they show in these annual holiday specials – so long as, each Thanksgiving, they remember to include Paul Simon, dressed in a turkey suit, opening an episode of Saturday Night Live singing “Still Crazy after All These Years.” More than 40 years later, it still makes me laugh.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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