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DAVID BIANCULLI

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The Cold Light Reader

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All Along the Watchtower

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Uncle Barky's Bytes

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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
May
31
AMC OFFERS 'QUIZ,' THE COMPLICATED STORY OF THE 'MILLIONAIRE' CHEATING SCANDAL By Mike Hughes
 
 
Back in 1998, all of England seemed obsessed with Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
26
'VIRAL: ANTI-SEMITISM IN FOUR MUTATIONS' EXAMINES A GROWING GLOBAL INFECTION By Mike Hughes
 
 
Standing face-to-face with a racist, filmmaker Andrew Goldberg found something surprising: He sort of liked him. “He’s a very likable guy...We had an interesting friendship.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
22
'MYTHIC QUEST: QUARANTINE' IS A LESSON IN HOW TO PRODUCE SOCIAL-DISTANCING TV By Mike Hughes
 
 
The art of social-distancing television has advanced quickly. It’s been like watching evolution at hyper-speed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
HOW HAVE THE SOCIAL DISTANCING VERSIONS OF 'AMERICAN IDOL' AND 'THE VOICE' FARED? By Mike Hughes
 
 
As the music competitions end their seasons...some things are clear: Yes, both shows are flawed...But the music-from-home part has worked well...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
CNN'S 'SCANDALOUS' UNCOVERS THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER By Mike Hughes
 
 

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, the differences in news coverage were cavernous... By the time newscasts started, “there were six Enquirer reporters in the air for Memphis with $50,000 in cash"...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
11
THOUGHTS ON PBS' 'ASIAN AMERICANS' FROM THOSE WHO LIVED IT By Mike Hughes
 
 
As Mike Nakayama tells it, enlisting in the military “was not a deeply thought-out decision.” Soon he was in Vietnam, heading into the jungle to induce firefights...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HULK ARE NOW ON TV AS COMPASSIONATE, FALLIBLE BEINGS By Mike Hughes
 
 
There are many reasons we all enjoy miniseries on cable and streaming services. For example, they give superhero actors the chance to show their acting muscles rather than their physical force...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
4
'AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: GEORGE W. BUSH' RECOUNTS THE EVOLUTION OF A PRESIDENT By Mike Hughes
 
 
For four noisy – and kind of cheerful – decades, there was nothing presidential about George W. Bush. But then came the flip side...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
4
'ALL RISE' BECOMES THE FIRST DRAMA TO JUMP INTO THE VIRTUAL POOL By Mike Hughes
 
 
Any experiment – Wright Brothers’ flight, man on the moon, mixing chocolate with marshmallow – will have its problems...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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