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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
May
17
SUPERNATURAL By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: There are a couple of very tenured series offering season finales tonight. I used to watch both, but for years now, I’ve only occasionally checked in on either. This is one of them: the Season 13 finale of Supernatural.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
17
MARLENE DIETRICH CELEBRATION By David Bianculli
 
 
Thursday nights in May, on TCM this month, belong to Marlene Dietrich, and tonight is an evening of some of her lesser earlier films, with one significant exception: At 10 p.m. ET, TCM presents 1935’s The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg, who always captured Dietrich at her most luminous and mysterious.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
17
THE CW GOES SUPER AND SUPERNATURAL IN NEW SUNDAY ADDITION TO 2018-19 LINEUP By Ed Bark
 
 
The little network that could is adding Sunday nights next season while announcing the final seasons of three veterans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: It’s been a long time since Modern Family showed up to reenergize the family sitcom genre. Give it props, though, for longevity as well as quality, because tonight’s episode marks the Season 9 finale. And for the first five seasons in that run, it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series – beating, along the way, such competitors as HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls, NBC’s The Office and 30 Rock, and FX’s Louie.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
NOVA WONDERS By David Bianculli
 
 
The question asked tonight on NOVA Wonders is “Can We Build a Brain?” And the answer, at least so far as I know, is “Yes, at least one that’s good enough to win on Jeopardy.” But tonight’s NOVA Wonders may have even more information to impart. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
2018 NBA CONFERENCE FINALS By David Bianculli
 
 
In the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics have been dominant, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first two games by margins of 25 and 13 points, respectively. In the Western Conference, Game 1 was comparably lopsided, with the Golden State Warriors beating the Houston Rockets by a 13-point margin. But tonight is Game 2 in that series, to see if the Warriors, like the Celtics, can reassert their authority.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli
 
 
It’s getting there. This series, in its final season, is doing what made Breaking Bad so great as it headed into its last laps. Remember when Hank finally realized what his brother-in-law was up to all along, and that the nefarious villain he’d been chasing for years as a law enforcement agent actually had sat across with him at family meals for years? Well, on The Americans, Philip and Elizabeth’s FBI neighbor, Stan, is coming very, very close to making the exact same revelati
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
16
CBS ACCENTS A MONDAY REBUILDING PROJECT IN NEW FALL LINEUP MARKED BY 'MAGNUM P.I.,' 'MURPHY BROWN' REBOOTS AND HEAVY-DUTY DIVERSITY By Ed Bark
 
 
A completely rebuilt Monday, including a Magnum P.I. reboot, highlights CBS’ new fall schedule while another second coming, Murphy Brown, will be joining the network’s Thursday prime-time lineup...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
NBC AGAIN SLIMS AND TRIMS WITH JUST THREE NEW FALL SERIES (AND THINLY VEILED MIDSEASON REINCARNATIONS OF PAST PRIME-TIME HITS) By Ed Bark
 
 
NBC, which dominated this season in the ratings battle for advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, is going lean again in 2018-19 with just three new fall series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
15
FOX GOES TRADITIONAL (WHETHER ADMITTING IT OR NOT) WITH LATEST PRIME-TIME MENU By Ed Bark
 
 
Adding Thursday Night Football, Last Man Standing, and another laugh track-juiced sitcom set in a retirement home seems like something CBS might do...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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