DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2016
Nov
8
 
 
Anyone who thinks a minor event like voting is going to shut down the television news industry’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election probably also thinks The Walking Dead is a spinoff from the Grateful Dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
7
 
 
Even by the standards of police dramas, which for obvious reasons like to focus on repulsive crimes, the new import Deep Water touches on something especially abhorrent: the systematic murder of gay men for sport...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
2
 
 
Whether you like your critters ultra-cute or totally scary, PBS has you covered Wednesday night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
1
 
 
War is hell anywhere it breaks out, but the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War was a particularly fiendish circle...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
31
 
 
When Kevin Reilly was hired to run the Turner entertainment networks, he said he wanted something different. The new sitcom People of Earth, which debuts on TBS Monday at 9 p.m. ET, suggests his troops have gotten the message...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
29
 
 
The import series Brief Encounters proves again that while British actresses often seem as prim as their country’s reputation, they also love a chance to get naughty every so often...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
28
 
 
In contrast to Vietnam War or Civil Rights protestors, the 1960s fighters in the women’s movement first had to convince some people there even was a problem...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
27
 
 
Many viewers will see the new CBS show The Great Indoors as a comedy. Some of us, however, will recognize that it’s really a tragedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
27
 
 
CBS’s Pure Genius is a medium-energy medical drama with a novel twist. It also has a more subtle level that’s potentially a little disturbing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
25
 
 
Don’t expect any neatly packaged ending for Sundance’s Rectify, whose fourth and final season premieres Wednesday (10/26), at 10 p.m. ET...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

 
 
 
 

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