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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2016
Sep
12
PBS INSERTS EDUCATION INTO THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION ALL WEEK By David Hinckley
 
 
Imagine trying to find a way to inject a serious discussion about the shape and future of American education into the current presidential campaign...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
11
PBS REVEALS 'CHURCHILL'S SECRET' By David Hinckley
 
 
Churchill’s Secret dramatizes a little-remembered footnote to one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
9
THE UNSYMPATHETIC, UNWELCOMING HOMECOMING OF VIETNAM VETS IN FX'S 'QUARRY' By David Hinckley
 
 
When Mac Conway left the Army for civilian life in 1972, he was able to immediately employ the primary vocational skill he had acquired during two tours in Vietnam, which was killing people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
6
REMEMBERING HUGH O'BRIAN (APRIL 19, 1925 - SEPT 5, 2016) By David Hinckley
 
 
Hugh O’Brian lived a much better life than the man he is most famous for portraying, Wyatt Earp. O’Brian, who died Monday in his Beverly Hills home at the age of 91, was a dedicated, clean-cut, no-nonsense lawman for six years on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
6
EDI GATHEGI PLAYS SOME OF THE SCARIEST ROLES ON TV AND NOW ONLINE By David Hinckley
 
 
In person, Edi Gathegi seems easy-going and charming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
4
IF '800 WORDS' DEVELOPS ACCORDING TO PLAN, YOU MIGHT LIKE IT By David Hinckley
 
 
The new Acorn TV import comedy 800 Words is betting that a familiar goofy sitcom premise can gracefully evolve into an engaging drama about finding a way to endure terrible loss...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
2
'BUILDING STAR TREK' BRINGS SCI-FI TO LIFE By David Hinckley
 
 
The Smithsonian special Building Star Trek turns out to be a fascinating rundown on how the cheap props of a cancelled 1960s television show foreshadowed some of today’s coolest technology...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
1
'GROUND ZERO RISING: FREEDOM VS. FEAR' DOC: REMEMBRANCE AND ANALYSIS By David Hinckley
 
 
CNBC’s Ground Zero Rising: Freedom vs. Fear, one of the first documentary specials on the 15th anniversary of September 11, starts to ask the right questions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
30
AYA CASH SAYS 'YOU'RE THE WORST' IS IN THERAPY By David Hinckley
 
 
Okay, Aya Cash agrees, clinical depression isn’t the classic raw material for television comedy. But then last season the funniest thing happened to Gretchen Cutler, Cash’s character on the FXX comedy You’re the Worst: She outed her clinical depression and the show got better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
29
EVEN THOUGH "LIMITED," 'THE NIGHT OF' SHOULD RETURN By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO did one of two things Sunday with The Night Of: It either played us for suckers or set us up for another spin on a great thrill ride...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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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
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'
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