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2019
Nov
2
I WANT MY DEAF TV By Noel Holston
 
 

[EDITOR'S NOTE: TVWW contributor Noel Holston is the author of Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery, a memoir to be published Nov. 5 by Skyhorse.]

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
2
HARLAN COUNTY, USA By David Bianculli
 
 
Barbara Kopple produced and directed this 1976 Oscar-winning documentary, about a coal miners’ strike in eastern Kentucky. Consider it an important chapter in the history of unions – as well as a real-life prequel to Justified.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
2
SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET By David Bianculli
 
 
SPECIAL PREVIEW: In 2020, BBC America will present Sir David Attenborough’s new nature series, Seven Worlds, One Planet, with even more of the astounding visuals and soothing narrative voices we’ve come to expect. But tonight, the network provides a special sneak preview… easily the night’s very best bet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
2
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
Two years ago, when Kristen Stewart hosted SNL for the first time, she pulled a Charles Rocket and accidentally dropped the F-bomb. (Don’t recognize the name of Charles Rocket? That’s sort of the point.) But Stewart, who’s about to be featured as one of the stars of the latest movie reboot of Charlie’s Angels, is a big enough star to overcome her F***ing faux pas, and is scheduled to host tonight, again. Musical guest: Coldplay.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
'THE MORNING SHOW' DAWNS ON APPLE TV+ – AND SHINES By Ed Bark
 
 
A promotional blitz has preceded the Nov. 1st dawning of Apple TV+ and its wealth of original content. In terms of star power and financial investment, though, one series rises and shines above the others. It's The Morning Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
KERRY WASHINGTON SHINES IN THE POWERFUL 'AMERICAN SON' By David Hinckley
 
 
Stage productions can lose some of their visceral power when they're put on film. The play American Son premieres Friday on Netflix with the force of a hard left cross...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
'TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN' IS BACK AND VENEZUELA IS IN THE RADAR By David Hinckley
 
 
The Jack Ryan series is about as reliable as political action thrillers get, and Season 2 of the Amazon Prime version delivers as expected...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
STAR POWER CARRIES 'THE MORNING SHOW' By David Hinckley
 
 
It's a problem when a program called The Morning Show makes you want to roll over and go back to sleep...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
FOR ALL MANKIND By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The entire Apple TV+ streaming service launches today. All the programming is brand new, but much of it, at the outset, is decidedly average. Of the initial offerings, the best is this new series from Battlestar Galactica reimaginer Ronald D. Moore. Once again, he’s reimagining things. This time, in a drama starring Joel Kinnaman as a 1960s U.S. astronaut, For All Mankind presents an alternate world history in which the Soviets won the space race by lan
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
1
THE MORNING SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is the big Apple TV+ flagship program. Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon play rising and falling stars in the highly competitive world of morning television. I don’t fault the acting, but the writing is so predictable, and the characters so caricatured and emptily preachy, that this is not a Morning Show I’d bother to watch. Yet Apple TV+ has given it a two-year, 20-episode commitment already, and thrown more money at it than, perhap
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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