Rachel Maddow: From the Morning Zoo to the Political Zoo
Rachel Maddow, who has been signed for a multiyear contract at MSNBC, where ratings of her show us 23 percent, says she didn’t grow up with much of an interest…
Tuesday TV: ‘Take the Money and Run,’ Best Docs
The latest summer reality show comes in the form of a caper. Pairs of people are given a suitcase of $10,000 (and a getaway car and a phone) that they…
NBC Day One: The Networks Move In
Something changes at TV Critics Press tour once the broadcast networks move in. After a week of cable and public television offerings of all kinds of things – series, movies,…
Connecticut Man Part of Vietnam Film
When Arthur Wiknik returned to Bradley Airport after a stint in Vietnam in 1970, he was struck by how he was shunned by people. “Every hateful glance was like a…
Bin Laden Reaction a Bonus in Bush 9/11 Interview
George W. Bush sits still and reflective, in close up against a black background, as he pauses to reflect on the events of 9/11 and the actions shortly after in…
Big Cat Wrangler on the Connecticut’s Movin’ Mountain Lion
Big cat wrangler Boone Smith, a fourth-generation tracker and houndsman who has spent 20 years capturing hundreds of cougars and other big cats to aid conservation efforts was at the…
Terror Claim a Casualty of ‘Border Wars’
In introducing a third season of the series “Border Wars” set along the embattled U.S./Mexico line, Michael Cascio, a senior vice president at the National Geographic Channel, overseeing documentary series,…
ESPN Sports Documentaries: Beyond 30
The success of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series of sports documentaries, and the one that followed it, “Fab Five” has led to a new series of sports documentaries continuing this…
Jerry Lewis: The Angry Clown
One legend who appeared at the TV Critics Press Tour this week got into a couple of troubling exchanges with reporters who he couldn’t hear or very well understand when…
Oprah Welcomes Rosie to OWN
Since she stepped down from her daytime show with some hoopla last month, Oprah Winfrey hasn’t exactly been relaxing. “I get emails from friends regularly saying, ‘I hope that you’re…