As a business plan, kidnapping so rarely works out. But that doesn’t always deter the desperate, and desperate seems to describe Frank Mallon in Clean Break...

2016

May

AMC TRANSLATES GRAPHIC NOVEL 'PREACHER' INTO A SERIES By David Hinckley

Adapting Garth Ennis’s Preacher for television has some of the same degree of difficulty as wrestling with God, so it’s impressive that after the first few episodes, the adapter team is still standing...

2016

May

HBO GOES 'ALL THE WAY' IN REVEALING THE COMPLEXITY OF LBJ By David Hinckley

The HBO Lyndon Johnson drama All the Way starts from the bold premise that the former President was larger than life, then proves it...

2016

May

'DOCTOR THORNE' IS JUST THE ANTIDOTE TO 'DOWNTON' WITHDRAWAL By David Hinckley

If you need an antidote for Downton Abbey withdrawal, and who among us does not, try Amazon’s new Doctor Thorne...

2016

May

USA'S 'ROYAL PAINS' WRAPPING UP 8 YEARS OF PLOT LINES By David Hinckley

By present standards, USA’s Royal Pains could probably be called TV lite. Or, just as easily, TV delightful...

2016

May

HOMER SIMPSON WILL GO LIVE SUNDAY TO ANSWER VIEWER QUESTIONS By David Hinckley

Seeing three minutes of Homer Simpson on a Simpsons show might not seem like a big deal if the three minutes he’s doing this Sunday (5/15) weren’t going to be live...

2016

May

'SCANDAL' BUMPS UP AGAINST REALITY AND DONALD TRUMP By David Hinckley

Warning: Contains spoilers from previously aired episodes of Scandal. One of the big questions hovering over Thursday night’s season finale of Scandal is whether the ABC show has made the right bet on its own political lineup.

2016

May

OVATION’S ‘RAIDERS OF THE LOST ART’ TRIES TO SOLVE GREAT MYSTERIES OF THE OLD MASTERS By David Hinckley

Ovation’s Raiders of the Lost Art doesn’t always deliver exactly what it seems to promise. As an intro course to the history of great artists, it delivers even more...

2016

May

PBS' 'WALLANDER' COMES TO A SATISFYING END By David Hinckley

Our final visit from melancholy Swedish detective Kurt Wallander proves slightly unsettling. In a good way. Sort of...

2016

May

ERNIE HUDSON: ENJOYING THE ACTOR'S LIFE By David Hinckley

Ernie Hudson took a long and winding road to become Lily Tomlin’s boyfriend in Grace and Frankie. An interesting road. Inspirational. Not easy. It could also describe the acting profession in which he has spent his life...

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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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