We were all in this windy, whitish mess together, and Philadelphia's local TV news operations, generally a hotbed of fear-mongering and trivial sensationalism, dove into the new technology and did a splendid job yesterday morning of telling that story. It was one of local TV's finest hours, perhaps the best news work since the MOVE disaster of 1985.
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The brisk pace, the mostly superb selection of winners and the classy presentation of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday did a good job of restoring faith, apparently a goal of the republic at the moment. Faith is alive and well! This Emmy telecast cemented our belief in television and the medium's enduring ability to reinvent itself.
Ron Shelton’s hour-long Jordan Rides the Bus on ESPN's 30 for 30 is a postcard of a film, minor but exceedingly well made. It revisits Michael Jordan’s single season of professional baseball, when he walked away from basketball after winning a third consecutive championship and spent the summer and fall of 1994 learning how to hit a changeup.
In If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, airing Monday and Tuesday on HBO, Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke to assess what might be called the damage being done by the recovery. Lee has sacrificed some clarity for inclusiveness; this is the document as monument, artful and rough by turns, and determined to be as big as its subject.
In ABC Family's Melissa & Joey, 1980s teenage stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence (now both 34) are working again, and working hard, goshdarnit, for you. Your job is to sit there, numb, and remember Melissa and Joey fondly. It's all part of the long-awaited economic recovery. Think about it: Is there anything that would be nicer to have back with us than the 1990s
A lot-lot-lot has happened in TV comedy in the years since the great 1988-94 series The Kids in the Hall' was at the head of the class. So the new miniseries from the reunited Kids in the Hall, the legendary Canadian sketch comedy group, doesn't feel incendiary in the least. Called Death Comes to Town, and premiering tonight at 10 on IFC, it's a consistently amusing and, at times, inspired piece of comic storytelling.
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