- February 16, 2004
- Franchise Players
HBO enlists an all-star distaff army to dramatize the story of women’s suffrage; Trio peers into the cable-news maw and finds it bottomless.
- February 9, 2004
- Election Return
A decade and a half later, Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau’s award-winning political mini-series Tanner ’88 out–West Wings The West Wing.
- February 2, 2004
- TV Notes
John Leonard reviews Shelter Dogs, Just Another Story, Remember the Alamo, and more.
- January 19, 2004
- Traffic Jamming
The third version of Traffic, now a USA miniseries, continues exploring the violent world of narcotics; The L Word spends lots of time in bed.
- January 5, 2004
- TV Notes
John Leonard reviews Mars Dead of Alive, DNA, The Day I Will Never Forget, and more.
- December 15, 2003
- No Expectations
With all its dirty laundering and pop psychologizing, Dickens probably should have had “Behind the Novels” appended to its title.
- December 8, 2003
- Winged Victory
Ten years after making Broadway history, Tony Kushner’s immensely moving epic-cum-fantasia about life in the age of AIDS, comes to HBO.
- December 1, 2003
- A Dying Season
Forty-six journalists on dangerous beats died between January 2002 and April 2003; their superstar colleagues talk about six of them.
- November 24, 2003
- TV Notes
John Leonard reviews Sister Helen, Full-Court Miracle, Eloise at Christmastime, and more.
- November 17, 2003
- TV Notes
John Leonard reviews Wright Brothers' Flying Machine, Dangerous Prescription, and more.