Frustrating as it is to see late-night television lose one of its few persons of color, Larry Wilmore’s termination by Comedy Central was pretty much inevitable...

2016

Aug

'MY LAST DAYS' SHARES THE SECRETS OF LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST By David Hinckley

Imminent death isn’t a great selling point for a TV show, but those who watch My Last Days will find that, in their own way, the subjects here are as inspiring as any Olympic gymnast or sprinter...

2016

Aug

'AGATHA RAISIN' IS A LIGHT, PLEASANT BRITISH COMEDY By David Hinckley

British comedy has always had two quite distinct faces: dry elegant wit from the likes of Noël Coward and slapstick from the Benny Hills...

2016

Aug

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN 'HOMELAND' RETURNS By David Hinckley

The next president of the United States, at least on the Showtime drama Homeland, will be a woman described as “a little Hillary Clinton, a little Donald Trump and a little Bernie Sanders.” Who knew it was that easy to bring America together?...

2016

Aug

'THE GET DOWN' TELLS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MUSIC HISTORY By David Hinckley

A forest of popular music rose from the scorched earth of New York in the 1970s, and the new Netflix series The Get Down tracks the early growth of the tallest tree: hip-hop...

2016

Aug

NEW 'STAR TREK' WILL BOLDLY GO WHERE CBS HAS NOT GONE BEFORE By David Hinckley

A new Star Trek may not take the streaming service CBS All Access beyond infinity, but the network is confident it will help convince a nicely profitable number of viewers to shell out six dollars a month...

2016

Aug

SHOWTIME ROLLS OUT NEW LINEUP FOR 2016-17 By David Hinckley

Showtime promoted upcoming productions Thursday, featuring the likes of Idris Elba, Daniel Craig and recently axed Saturday Night Live stars Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam...

2016

Aug

CW TO INCLUDE 'SUPERGIRL' AND 'FLASH' CROSSOVER MUSICAL AND MORE FOR 2016-17 By David Hinckley

CW’s lineup of superhero shows – Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow will include a musical crossover episode between Supergirl and The Flash in the second half of the upcoming season...

2016

Aug

UPCOMING 'THE GREAT INDOORS' ASKS, "WHEN DID 40-SOMETHING BECOME THE NEW 80?" By David Hinckley

Joel McHale’s character in the new CBS show The Great Indoors, Jack, gives voice to all persons over 35 who went out for lunch at work one day and returned to learn that everything they did no longer mattered and the way they did it was irrelevant...

2016

Aug

DIVERSITY CONCERNS ARE RAISED AGAIN -- THIS TIME WITH CBS By David Hinckley

Even though CBS has been hitting home runs for years with prime-time shows starring straight white men, the network’s entertainment chief admitted Wednesday that’s not enough...

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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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