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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2016
Aug
27
FIND OUT WHY EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT 'THE NIGHT OF' By David Hinckley
 
 
If you only had time to watch one new show this summer and you picked HBO’s The Night Of, you made the right call...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
26
AMAZON’S ‘THE KICKS’ OFFERS MESSAGES FOR THE KIDS AND HUMOR FOR THE ADULTS By David Hinckley
 
 
Amazon’s new drama The Kicks is cool enough for kids and reassuring enough for their parents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
25
JOSEPH SIKORA ON TOMMY EGAN'S 'POWER' By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s a dark-humor gag in television that “diversity” means casting a black actor as the incongruous best friend of the lead actor in an otherwise all-white world. In that sense, Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan is the flip side...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
23
AN APPRECIATION: STEVEN HILL 1922 - 2016 By David Hinckley
 
 
Steven Hill, who became well known as District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order, but whose acting career was guided even more by his religious faith, died Tuesday (8/23) in Monsey, N.Y....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
23
THE ASTONISHING TRUE TALE OF THE 'PIN KINGS' By David Hinckley
 
 
Pin Kings, the story of two high school wrestling buddies is one of those documentaries you wouldn’t believe if it hadn’t actually happened...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
23
LEBRON JAMES KEEPS ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOCAL WITH 'CLEVELAND HUSTLES' By David Hinckley
 
 
In case you hadn’t noticed, LeBron James is working hard to be a lot more than just the guy who somehow stopped the Golden State Warriors and finally gave Cleveland another pro sports championship...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
21
SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE OLYMPICS: NBC'S COVERAGE WASN'T ENTIRELY MEDAL-WORTHY By David Hinckley
 
 
After 16 days and approximately 482,394 hours of Olympics coverage on several thousand platforms, I have to say this about NBC and the Summer Games: More was less...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
19
JON VOIGHT TAKES HALLMARK FOR A DIFFERENT RIDE By David Hinckley
 
 
You might think Jon Voight’s patriarch character in a Hallmark movie would be several galaxies removed from the patriarch he plays in Showtime’s dark drama Ray Donovan...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
19
'THE SYNDICATE: ALL OR NOTHING' MAY BE THE CLOSEST YOU'LL GET TO 'DOWNTON ABBEY' By David Hinckley
 
 
The Syndicate: All Or Nothing, a 2015 BBC One series has one of the strongest claims yet to kinship with the late lamented Downton Abbey...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
18
'FEAR' WALKS WITH ONE CHARACTER TO START SEASON 2 By David Hinckley
 
 

Fear the Walking Dead takes an unexpected path Sunday night and it leads to paydirt...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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.
 
 
New From TVWW

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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