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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Sep
12
KEN BURNS IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION: HOW ALL ROADS LED TO ‘THE VIETNAM WAR’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Ken Burns was nine-years-old when he first heard the word Vietnam, and it meant nothing to him. That is to say, it meant about as much to him as North Korea might to an average nine-year-old today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
STEPHEN COLBERT, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE POISED TO STEAL THE SHOW AT 69TH EMMYS By Alex Strachan
 
 
The 2017 Emmy Awards will be here before you know it, on a wind and a prayer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
6
'THE VIETNAM WAR' SOUNDTRACK: ‘IT’S AN INVISIBLE ART.’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Ken Burns knew all along that he would use as many appropriate songs of the era as he could snag the rights for on a PBS budget, but the issue of the background music was a thorny issue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
28
FALL IS A TIME OF RENEWAL... AND RENEWALS By Alex Strachan
 
 
And now for something completely different: a good-news story for a change. That’s good news, at least, for those wondering if their favorite TV show is coming back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
22
FAR, FARTHER, FARTHEST: VOYAGER’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY, STILL GOING BOLDLY WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE. By Alex Strachan
 
 
In 1977, Jimmy Carter had just been elected president, the US population passed 220 million for the first time...and a little film called Star Wars opened and immediately had crowds lining around the block...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
19
BEST NOT TO STARE AT THE SUN DURING AN ECLIPSE — THAT'S WHAT THE TV'S THERE FOR By Alex Strachan
 
 
No one is suggesting the world will end, of course, though the late, great Isaac Asimov and fellow science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg foretold exactly that in their classic 1941 novella Nightfall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
12
DARKER, MORE DISTURBING ’ENDEAVOUR’ RETURNS WITH A ‘GAME’ EFFORT By Alex Strachan
 
 
Endeavour is back. Dark clouds hang over Oxford as a new season of cerebral murders begins...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
5
PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS JUST THAT, PBS PRESIDENT PAULA KERGER INSISTS — SO LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY By Alex Strachan
 
 
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger has fought this battle before, and come out of it in one piece. That doesn’t mean the fight for public broadcasting will end the same way this time, though, she warned...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
3
QUIRKS AND QUARKS: ODDS AND BITS AND ASSORTED POTPOURRI FROM THE MIDWAY POINT OF THE TELEVISION CRITICS ASSOCIATION PRESS TOUR By Alex Strachan
 
 
As you are probably well-aware by now, the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour is just past the midway point in Beverly Hills, CA...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
31
FROM WORKING ACTORS TO FAST FRIENDS: HOW NICOLE KIDMAN AND ELISABETH MOSS BONDED ON 'TOP OF THE LAKE' By Alex Strachan
 
 
Judging from early reviews in the UK, Top of the Lake: China Girl, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion’s follow-up to her eerie, heartbreaking Top of the Lake, wrings an almost cinematic beauty out of Sydney, Australia’s seedy cityscape...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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