DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2016
May
6
 
 
Joan Baez gets taken for granted sometimes, and her new birthday concert on PBS’s Great Performances reminds us why that should not happen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
5
 
 
It’s a very different pair of dames we meet when the second season of the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie drops its 13 episodes Friday (5/6). This year, for starters, Grace and Frankie like each other...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
5
 
 
Ovation’s new documentary series Millennials provides both a scary and an honest look at growing up in the 21st century...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
3
 
 
When Amy Berg started working on a documentary about the late Janis Joplin, one of the suggestions she heard was that Joplin was “the Judy Garland of rock.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
3
 
 
You can envision the team at CBS’s Person Of Interest pushing their chairs back from the table and saying, “Okay, our work is done here.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
2
 
 
The most intriguing character in Fox’s new drama Houdini & Doyle turns out to be neither one. It’s a young woman named Adelaide Stratton...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
29
 
 
The most poignant highlight of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame HBO special wasn’t part of this year’s induction night at all. It’s a clip of the late Prince at his own 2004 Hall of Fame induction, talking briefly about his music, and then playing lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
29
 
 
For better or worse, NBC’s Game of Silence is looking like the latest TV show where less would have been more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
28
 
 
When Donald Trump sits down with Megyn Kelly for her May 17 prime-time special on Fox, it will be interesting to see whether he still calls her “sick” and “crazy.” Those are a couple of the many things he’s called her on Twitter over the last few months...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
25
 
 
AMC may be hungering for another great show, but it’s not a disgrace that the revolutionary war spy drama Turn: Washington’s Spies has become simply a good one...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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