DAVID BIANCULLI

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The Cold Light Reader

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Dateline Donovan

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All Along the Watchtower

ED BARK

Uncle Barky's Bytes

ALEX STRACHAN

TV That Matters

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Open Mike

BILL BRIOUX

TV Feeds My Family

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Must-Click TV

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TV Eye

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Aerial View

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Crossing Jordan

ED MARTIN

Ed Martin's TV Mix

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The Grassy Noel

TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2018

Nov

WORRYING PROGRAMMING FOR WORRYING TIMES: PBS' ‘FRONTLINE’ AND PROPUBLICA HOLD THEIR LENS TO ‘NEW AMERICAN NAZIS’ By Alex Strachan

We live in worrying times...

2018

Nov

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S ‘DYNASTIES’ PICKS UP WHERE ‘PLANET EARTH,’ ‘BLUE PLANET II’ LEFT OFF By Alex Strachan

The world is flat. We’re living in a wired global village, where a TV show that airs on one side of the planet can be seen anywhere else on Earth, virtually instantly, in real time...

2018

Nov

ON CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, THE MIDTERMS, HASAN MINHAJ, AND WHY ‘AMANPOUR & CO.’ IS NOW PART OF MY REGULAR VIEWING By Alex Strachan

Christiane Amanpour, CNN International’s longtime chief foreign correspondent, has long been based in London, so she has never been as familiar to news viewers on these shores as she is in Europe, despite her profile overseas...

2018

Oct

NO DILEMMA HERE: WATCH "THE FACEBOOK DILEMMA" ON PBS'S 'FRONTLINE,' IF YOU CAN By Alex Strachan

First, a confession. I’m an avid, but not obsessive, user of both Facebook and Twitter. I see the good in social media, and the bad, too. I’m not naive...

2018

Oct

PBS' 'FRONTLINE’ EXAMINES PENSION PROMISES AND — SPOILER ALERT — FINDS THE MATH DOESN’T ADD UP By Alex Strachan

Picture if you will, a corporation that makes a product people not just want but need, a corporation that puts all its efforts into boosting this quarter’s profit statements, with little thought for what comes afterward...

2018

Oct

TECH GIANTS V. PUBLIC TELEVISION: THE BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS IN THE INFORMATION AGE By Alex Strachan

The big picture is ever-changing. There’s a global battle going on to influence and shape what we watch in the comfort of our homes...

2018

Oct

‘DOCTOR WHO’ JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED FOR FAMILY VIEWING IN TROUBLED TIMES By Alex Strachan

No, the moon wasn’t knocked out of Earth's orbit by a spontaneous explosion of stored nuclear waste. Men are still talking to women, for the most part, days later...

2018

Oct

‘THE VOICE’ STILL LOOKING FOR THE MOST ELUSIVE PRIZE OF ALL: A STAR BEING BORN By Alex Strachan

Never mind the B notes and C notes. It’s the 15th season of The Voice, which means there are 14 previous winners, all vying for the music industry’s attention...

2018

Sep

EMMY RATINGS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK By Alex Strachan

The numbers are in, and the Emmy ratings were down 10 percent from last year, give or take...

2018

Sep

THE SMALL SCREEN HAS A LONG MEMORY: JUST LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S EMMY WINNERS IF YOU DOUBT THAT By Alex Strachan

Ain’t live television grand?...

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Alex Strachan

Alex Strachan has written extensively about television since 1995. He was the staff television critic for The Vancouver Sun from June 1995 to 2003. Prior to that, he was a general-assignment reporter and sportswriter at the Sun, which he originally joined in 1979. He became the national TV critic for Canada’s Postmedia News chain, or Canwest Global Communications as it was then called, in September 2003. He wrote for the chain from 2003-15, during which time his stories appeared regularly on Canada.com and in such daily papers as the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald. In recent years, his writing has focused more on media analysis and industry trends than celebrity profiles and background features, but he still finds time to watch The Voice and The Amazing Race, not to mention guilty pleasures like Banshee and Amazon Hotel. Alex's personal website focuses on his concern for the world around us through his stunning photographs from his world travels. In addition, check out Alex's blog on his site which he tries to update every two days or so. You can also follow Alex @astrachanideas