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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Nov
7
‘THE LONG ROAD HOME’ REMINDS US OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR By David Hinckley
 
 
Six weeks after PBS aired Ken Burns’s sobering The Vietnam War, we have a sequel: National Geographic’s The Long Road Home...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
3
‘ALIAS GRACE,’ SET IN THE PAST, DEBUTS ON NETFLIX WITH TOPICS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PRESENT By David Hinckley
 
 
If you’re looking for a snappy and tidy resolution to a notorious murder case, don’t count on Netflix’s Alias Grace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
3
KEVIN KLINE IN NOEL COWARD’S ‘PRESENT LAUGHTER’ ON PBS’ ‘GREAT PERFORMANCES’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Noel Coward’s Present Laughter provided jolly good escapist fun during World War II and it performs exactly the same function today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
2
CBS’ ‘S.W.A.T.’ HAS SOME WORK TO DO By David Hinckley
 
 
CBS’s revived S.W.A.T. may be trying to swat too many issues with one show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
1
'INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY' WRAPS UP ITS EIGHT SEASONS By David Hinckley
 
 
It almost feels too easy to say that George is not departing gently...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
1
BELOVED HENRY WINKLER: FROM THE FONZ TO HANK ZIPZER AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN By David Hinckley
 
 
Fifteen years ago, Henry Winkler decided that dramatizing some of the rough stories from his own childhood could make other childhoods better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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