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February 11, 2021, By Mike Hughes
Jeff Zucker is following a plan embraced by politicians and poker players: Quit while you're ahead.Zucker announced last week that this would be his final year as president of CNN...
 
May 11, 2020, By David Bianculli
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Netflix is describing this debut film by comedy writer and producer Donick Cary as a documentary, but it seems assembled and intended more for entertainment ...
 
September 17, 2019, By Alex Strachan
First blood has been drawn, and Game of Thrones has emerged as the early frontrunner in the race for the big prize. The Emmys for the major categories are this coming...
 
July 27, 2019, By David Bianculli
SERIES PREMIERE: Gordon Ramsay seems to be all over the Fox schedule – but for this new National Geographic series, he sets out to conquer the world. Or, at least, to visit ...
 
August 13, 2018, By Alex Strachan
Our Man in Tehran, the often illuminating, occasionally moving two-part, four-hour PBS Frontline documentary, was four years in the making.   Right from the start, th...
 
August 6, 2018, By Roger Catlin
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The gathering clouds of Russian spying carried over to the TV Critics Association’s 34th TCA Awards ceremony Saturday, with The Americans win...
 
July 4, 2018, By David Bianculli
There are several TV marathons on tap today – and here’s one with a poignant residue. To honor their recently deceased food and travel correspondent, CNN is serving up...
 
June 24, 2018, By David Bianculli
SEASON FINALE: Anthony Bourdain was working on Season 6 of his CNN food and travel and culture series when he committed suicide recently, a tragedy, and a legacy, covered by TVWW ...
 
June 10, 2018, By Eric Gould
The news of Anthony Bourdain’s untimely and shocking loss continues to reverberate. Unhappily. Here is Anderson Cooper’s moving remembrance of the tastes and insight t...
 
June 8, 2018, By Alex Strachan
Is it possible to be both shaken and stirred at the same time? I know that feeling today. I never met Anthony Bourdain in person, but I feel like he was in the seat beside me ...
 
June 8, 2018, By Eric Gould
  The shock, surprise, and sorrow continue to flood across the internet today, June 8th, the day it was reported Anthony Bourdain was found dead of a suicide in France. I...
 
May 1, 2018, By Ed Bark
The detractors and defenders of Michelle Wolf continue to pile up like a chain collision on a slippery freeway.Most of America’s latest case study in “tribal” po...
 
January 17, 2018, By TVWW Guest Contributor
[Editor's Note: TVWW Guest Contributor Theresa Corigliano talks with host Phil Rosenthal about his eponymous travel series that's devoted to finding the perfect bite.] There is...
 
January 5, 2018, By David Bianculli
DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: If you were watching political coverage at the end of 2017, no matter where on TV you were watching, you might have thought of that saying, “Law...
 
December 2, 2017, By David Hinckley
Revered chef Jeremiah Tower (top) may seem at first like an icon from a world – upscale food – that most of us do not live in and rarely visit. That doesn’t m...
 
July 28, 2017, By Ed Bark
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- It's no brag, but again just fact when Hallmark Channel promises the "premier gala" of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) "press tour." Its...
 
October 20, 2016, By David Bianculli
TVWW Update — Flesh-eating zombies and a nuclear apocalypse are on the way this week. No, that’s not what’s in store for the third presidential debate on We...
 
June 7, 2016, By Alex Strachan
Where’s the beef? Anthony Bourdain is about to tell you, this weekend, as Parts Unknown puts the finishing touch on its seventh season as one of CNN’s most reliable ...
 
September 27, 2015, By David Bianculli
Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal’s new TV series isn’t a sitcom – it’s a travel and food show. But it’s funnier than most sitcom...
 
June 18, 2015, By Ed Bark
This much is certain. Brian Williams certainly can’t hurt MSNBC, which has been a third place near-corpse in the cable news network ratings for the past 10 months. Whenever...
 
March 23, 2014, By Monique Nazareth
With spring finally here after what seemed like an endless winter, you might be dreaming of getting away.  Like many people, my favorite things include food and travel.&nbs...
 
January 11, 2014, By Donna J. Plesh
  [Editor's Note: TVWW contributor Donna J. Plesh died April 2, 2015, from ovarian cancer. She was 71. Donna covered television since the early 1980s, initially for the&nb...
 
December 26, 2013, By Eric Gould
We had some unforgettable pictures cross our TV screens in 2013 that should burn on long after 2014 arrives. There were the five days in April following the Boston Marathon bomb...
 
November 9, 2013, By Eric Gould
Anthony Bourdain has been to some pretty tough spots -- war-torn Libya and Kurdistan to name two you'll probably want to avoid on your next holiday trip. Sunday night he finishe...
 
November 4, 2013, By Eric Gould
Alongside our story on the pop phenomenon AKB48, here is another look at Japan. It's the monologue from last night's penultimate episode of this season's Parts Unknown, Anthony Bo...
 
October 5, 2013, By Gabriela Tamariz
If there’s one job in the world we can agree is worth the delayed flights, long layovers and blistering hangovers, it belongs to Anthony Bourdain. But he quickly changed m...
 
June 22, 2013, By Eric Gould
CNN has had some winning additions since former NBC head Jeff Zucker arrived earlier this year to revamp the news channel, most notably with Anthony Bourdain's itinerant ody...
 
May 19, 2013, By Eric Gould
Sunday DVR programming has always been a problem of triage, with most channels running their best shows against each other on that coveted night. That gets even more difficult t...
 
February 28, 2013, By David Bianculli
Consider this a cartoon crossover: Anthony Bourdain, a fan of this show, somehow talked his way into an episode. And “talked his way into” is literal, because he provi...
 
January 22, 2013, By David Bianculli
SERIES PREMIERE: Does TV really need another cooking competition show? Of course not. But this one, like The Voice, brings something new to the mix: a democratic sense of fair pla...
 
November 13, 2012, By Ed Bark
Slam. Bang. Zoom. Stuck on hyper-drive and stuffed with hyperbole, Mankind: The Story of All of Us — premiering Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. ET — is histor...
 
September 3, 2012, By Eric Gould
[Editor's Note: In addition to the No Reservations season premiere on Monday at 9 p.m. ET, the Travel Channel is presenting a No Reservations marathon beginning at noon, ET.]Tra...
 
September 3, 2012, By David Bianculli
Anthony Bourdain kicks off his final season of downbeat dining and drinking before departing for CNN. For the premiere he visits the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Yes, there is ...
 
July 19, 2012, By David Bianculli
Outstanding Comedy Series The Big Bang Theory • CBS Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television   Curb Your Enthusiasm • HBO HBO ...
 
May 25, 2012, By Eric Gould
Editor's Note: On Tuesday, May 29, CNN announced that Anthony Bourdain was joining the news network as host of a new weekend program in which Bourdain will travel the world lo...
 
April 21, 2011, By David Bianculli
In round one of its April assault of fresh TV programming, HBO last weekend presented the premiere of its fantasy epic series, Game of Thrones, and immediately renewed. This wee...
 
March 12, 2011, By Mark Bianculli
Saturday's Science Channel marathon showing of An Idiot Abroad (2:30-11 p.m. ET) gives viewers the chance to catch up on episodes they missed, or to be introduced, in one massiv...
 
August 3, 2010, By Tom Brinkmoeller
[Bianculli here: The former Fine Living Network has downsized with the times, and now presents itself as The Cooking Channel. Contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller has seen the new...
 
April 29, 2009, By Tom Brinkmoeller
[Bianculli here: Tom Brinkmoeller, for his latest column, reverted to his old print reporter instincts, and conducted interviews as well as delivered his own opinion. The topic: T...
 
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