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2020
Sep
10
'THE SIT-IN': A MOMENTOUS WEEK WITH HARRY BELAFONTE ON 'THE TONIGHT SHOW' By David Hinckley
 
 
Late-night television's overwhelming whiteness has been a topic of pointed conversation for decades, which lends considerable historical resonance to a new Peacock documentary called The Sit-In...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
10
DIANA RIGG: AN APPRECIATION By David Hinckley
 
 
Ask any pop culture fan under 50 about The Avengers, and you'll get a rhapsody on the whole rambunctious team from the Marvel universe and movies. Ask someone over 60, particularly if that someone is male, and you'll get a loving rhapsody about Diana Rigg in a catsuit...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
10
1955: 'GUNSMOKE' STARTS BLAZING ITS LONG TV TRAIL By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1955, one of television's best-known and longest-running dramas, Gunsmoke, made its debut on CBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
1975: 'WELCOME BACK, KOTTER' BEGINS ON ABC By TV WW
 
 
On this day in 1975, ABC introduced the situation comedy Welcome Back, Kotter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
NOVA: "HUMAN NATURE" By David Bianculli
 
 
You can learn a lot by watching tonight’s episode of Nova – or at least I did. I thought CRISPR was the way I liked my BACN – but it turns out CRISPR is the name of a tool for editing the human genome. CRISPR could help isolate and eliminate genetic deficiencies in human DNA. It also, however, could allow parents to choose their children’s physical features and other attributes, which basically is the plot of at least 20 percent of all dystopian sci-fi stories e
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
‘HUMAN NATURE': PBS' NOVA TACKLES THORNY ETHICAL QUESTION OF GENE MANIPULATION By Alex Strachan
 
 
The question always, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson told TV Worth Watching in an interview over lunch several years ago, is not whether one can do something but rather whether one should...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
A CARTOONIST'S EYES ARE MADE WIDE OPEN IN 'WOKE' ON HULU By David Hinckley
 
 
Being identified as "woke" – that is, finally understanding the multiple core inequities of American society – can get you admired or ridiculed these days, depending on who has done the identifying...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
8
PBS 'FRONTLINE: GROWING UP POOR IN AMERICA' IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 By Alex Strachan
 
 
Several years ago — it seems like ages ago now — the veteran CBS newsman Scott Pelley presented a sobering segment for 60 Minutes in which Pelley documented the hollowing-out of the middle class in Orlando, Fla. in the wake of the last economic downturn...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
8
STAR TREK DAY By David Bianculli
 
 
It's an all-day salute to Star Trek, on the 54th anniversary of its original series launch on NBC. But it’s not just a salute to the original Star Trek. Today, CBS All Access is mounting quite an ambitious enterprise (or, if you prefer, Enterprise) by saluting all nine shows and spinoffs relating to Gene Roddenberry’s original Trek vision. Running all day and night, except for a significant midday break, CBS All Access presents selected ep
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
8
WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight is the second installment of this fascinating documentary miniseries, covering three more topic “chapters,” including Introducing Characters and the Meet Cute. Every Tuesday this month, TCM presents not only the latest installment of the Women Make Film documentary, but follows it with a super-generous helping of some of the films shown. Tonight, they include 1970’s Wanda ( 2:15 a.m. ET), a late-night showing of a film both starring and directed by B
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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