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2018
Apr
10
HOME DELIVERY By Eric Gould
 
 
Seth Meyers' monologs are always good, but last night’s Late Night opening (Monday, April 9) was hard to beat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
8
THE DISRUPTED DISRUPTER By Eric Gould
 
 
The accolades have been appropriately coming this week on the passing of Steven Bochco (1943 – 2018), producer and creator of two series– Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue – that changed the tone of broadcast and cable dramas to came after them... in this clip, Bochco reveals the conflicts amongst cast and producers of Hill Street Blues and how he perservered...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
22
LIVE FROM MSNBC IT’S 'SATURDAY NIGHT' By Eric Gould
 
 
This isn’t an SNL sketch, but a straight news interview that could easily pass for one...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
16
THIS IS A GARRY SHANDLING INTERVIEW By Eric Gould
 
 
Marking the second year of his passing, HBO will premiere The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling on March 28...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
4
TRY AND ROMAINE CALM By Linda Donovan
 
 
Good or bad, there's nothing quite like watching Gordon Ramsay berate and castigate a roomful of chefs and those aspiring to join the culinary arts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
19
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN TV HISTORY By David Bianculli
 
 
Today (Monday, February 19), is the golden anniversary of the premiere of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on public television. All manner of tributes are on the way... including a library of shows available on YouTube...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
12
LOVE WILL FIND YOU By Eric Gould
 
 
For Valentines Day, here’s Liam Neeson auditioning for the role of Cupid in a bit from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Of course, it’s in his usual tough-guy Taken character, and is ill-fitting, along with his love-sprite wardrobe...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
5
FANCY FOOTWORK By Eric Gould
 
 
It wasn’t a stellar crop of commercials for Super Bowl LII, but this one, for the NFL, had New York Giants players Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr. reprising the well-known dance number from Dirty Dancing, and it was a charmer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
28
LET THERE BE FLIGHT By Eric Gould
 
 

Back in the day, the first Super Bowl wasn’t even the name for the game. It was known in 1967 as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game...  but the instinct for spectacle was there from the start...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
RADIO ACTIVITY By Eric Gould
 
 
Portlandia’s final season has premiered and Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are still delivering top-shelf irony in this NPR-style podcast being done in the local police station...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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