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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
May
24
THE MANY FACES OF BILL MAHER – HOW ‘REAL TIME’ HAS BECOME ONE OF TV’S MOST THOUGHTFUL PROGRAMS By Alex Strachan
 
 
“I know why you’re happy tonight,” Bill Maher says at the opening of his Real Time monologue each week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
18
WHY ‘THE AMERICANS’ CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF TV’S MOST RELEVANT DRAMAS By Alex Strachan
 
 
The Americans has always had a keen sense of the past, but perhaps never more so than this season..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
PBS’ ‘FRONTLINE’ DOC ON ISIS SHOWS VALUE OF REAL JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF THE KARDASHIANS By Alex Strachan
 
 
This is what was trending on Google News the other day: “Blac Chyna is Pregnant: 6 Reasons Why Rob Kardashian Is Going to Be a Great Dad.” There are six reasons — at least — not to care, but that is where the media culture is today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
2
CRAY-CRAY: WHERE ART IMITATES LIFE ON ‘VEEP’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Two episodes into Veep’s fifth term, one thing is clear: Life is unlikely to imitate Veep’s art in at least one important respect...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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