DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2020
Aug
5
 
 
Storm chasing, it seems, just isn't fair. The storm never obeys borders; the chasers have to...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
I've been writing Best Bets, in one form or another, since 1977. And only twice, in all that time, did anyone else provide Bets for me. The first was during a lengthy hospitalization. TVWW's late editor, Christy Slewinski, with an assist from editor Eric Gould, culled together the daily picks for me. The second occurred, well, during a lengthy hospitalization. You, our wonderful readers, jumped in with your recommendations in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter until Eric (what would TVWW d
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
No matter where you stand ideologically, it's hard not to get frustrated over the seemingly glacial pace at which things get done – or don't get done – in Washington...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. Remember Quibi? The streaming world’s equivalent of New Coke? (For that matter: Remember New Coke?) Well, today it launches, in regular bite-sized bits, an extremely loose remake of the classic Sixties TV series starring David Janssen as unjustly accused murderer Richard Kimble, with Barry Morse as the dogged lawman on his trail. This Quibi Fugitive is completely modernized and overhauled: Boyd Holbrook of Narcos 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Recycled from CBS All Access, Tell Me a Story – a “mature” interweaving of several fairy tales, told in modern day settings and with very dark variations – began showing on the CW last week. It offered very, very loose variations on The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel – and in two of those three storylines, there were dead bodies in the first installment alone. Tonight, Episode 2….
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is one of three lawmakers followed in this new documentary (fellow congressional members Thomas Massie and Ken Buck are the others), which looks at what it’s like to run for office before and during a pandemic – and what these Republicans are saying, and claiming, about their party’s concerns and promises regarding the draining of the so-called Washington “swamp.” For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
On this day in 1996, Olympians and spectators gathered in the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the close of the "Centennial Olympics" in Atlanta, Georgia — a celebration filled with a range of popular American music...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
 
 
On this day in 1993, female sportscaster Gayle Gardner became the first woman to present televised play-by-play for a Major League baseball game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
 
 
There are those documentaries that enlighten and inform, but only for a moment...Then there are those documentaries that have a lasting effect, programs that not only enlighten and inform but galvanize people to action...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
3
 
 
Stories of African immigrants are getting a rare spurt of TV attention...