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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2009
Sep
2
NEWS NEWS: DIANE SAWYER STEPS UP By Diane Werts
 
 
The early bird gets the anchor slot. Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw and Barbara Walters way back when, and now Diane Sawyer -- all morning-show hosts who made the leap to anchoring their networks' evening newscasts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Sep
1
THEMES TO ME, AND TO OTHERS, THAT TV IS MISSING A MUSICAL BEST BET By David Bianculli
 
 
I love TV theme songs. Always have, and always will, even if more and more networks and TV production companies seem to hate them. This week, I've been quoted in an article by Mark Dawidziak of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. What Mark has to report about the state of the TV theme song of tomorrow, and remember about the state of them yesterday, is well worth reading...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
31
GUEST BLOG #46: TRACKING "HISTORY DETECTIVES" AND DIGGING "TIME TEAM AMERICA" WITH TOM BRINKMOELLER By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: Finding quality TV shows can be tough enough. Showing your support for them, even when they're on public television, can be even trickier, as contributing critic Tom Brinkmoeller reports today, using two current series to make his point...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
31
REALITY CHECK: BYE-BYE, 'BIG BROTHER' By Diane Werts
 
 
Could it be that the lowest of the low has actually hit rock bottom? Britain's hit Big Brother "reality" franchise is being dropped by Channel 4 next year after a 10-year run. It's part of a "creative overhaul"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
30
FLICK PICKS: THE MUSICAL MIND BEHIND THAT 'PSYCHO' SHRIEK By Diane Werts
 
 
Bernard Herrmann is the man to thank for those Psycho shower scene strings. And the spooky rumble under Citizen Kane. For Taxi Driver's moody Manhattan vibe. And Vertigo's dizzy delirium.Now Herrmann gets a suitable salute...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
28
FEELING NOSTALGIC ABOUT THE WILD, WILD WESTERN By David Bianculli
 
 
Like a lot of people -- more of them almost every week -- I'm loving my Sunday night dose of HBO's "True Blood," one of the most enjoyable thrill rides on TV right now. But unlike most people, I have another Sunday night thrill-ride TV treat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
27
GUEST BLOG #45: JUST WHEN TOM BRINKMOELLER THOUGHT HE WAS OUT, WE PULLED HIM BACK IN... By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
[Bianculli here: We here at TV WORTH WATCHING are gearing up for the fall TV season, and wrestling with a site relaunch that may or may not be done in time. Meanwhile, asked to start perusing the new fall fare in advance, one of our contributing critics had an identity-crisis epiphany...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
26
IN MEMORIAM: TED KENNEDY COVERAGE By Diane Werts
 
 
Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral ceremonies will be carried live on cable's C-SPAN this weekend, starting with Friday night's "Celebration of Life Memorial Service" 7-9 p.m. ET from Massachusetts' JFK presidential library...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
26
TV ON DVD: 'THIRTYSOMETHING' FINALLY ARRIVES By Diane Werts
 
 
Bet you thought it would never happen: That oh-so-'80s fave thirtysomething finally hits DVD this week. And it turns out to be oh-so-21st-century, too...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
25
TWENTYSOMETHING YEARS AGO, THERE WAS "THIRTYSOMETHING"... By David Bianculli
 
 
One of the most eagerly anticipated TV-shows-on-DVD releases hits stores today: the first season of thirtysomething, the ABC series that, beginning in 1987, examined yuppie angst. The tangled web of music rights is what has discouraged the series from being packaged until now... but now, as Diane Werts already has alerted us in her blog, Shout! Factory has made it a reality...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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