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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2016
Apr
24
'REBELLION' RETELLS THE 1916 IRISH UPRISING WITH A TOUCH OF MELODRAMA By David Hinckley
 
 
Rebellion takes on a task almost as impossible as Irish nationalists trying to throw the British out of their country in 1916...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
23
'SPORTS DETECTIVES' TRACKS DOWN MEMORABILIA AND MINI-DRAMAS By David Hinckley
 
 
Once upon a time, sports memorabilia was a fun little incidental sideline for kids. Your favorite player signed a baseball. Cool!...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
22
SPOILER ALERT: TV'S DEATH TOLL OF MAJOR CHARACTERS SUDDENLY SOARS By David Hinckley
 
 

[Warning: Possible spoilers ahead for numerous series.] Whichever unfortunate character died earlier this month on The Walking Dead, he or she will have a lot of company in television Valhalla...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
21
'KIMMY SCHMIDT' HAS RETURNED WITH NEW ADVENTURES, NEW MINI-DRAMAS By David Hinckley
 
 
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt makes it seem so easy to create an endearing sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
19
ALAS, POOR WILLIAM: DESPITE SHAKESPEARE’S WARNING, WAS HIS TOMB DISTURBED? By David Hinckley
 
 
Most TV specials and documentaries on dark, troubling, long-unsolved historical mysteries end up like Geraldo Rivera’s infamous special on Al Capone’s vault: They ride in with a loud splashy come-on and end up revealing a great big fistful of nothing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
19
CW'S 'CONTAINMENT' IMAGINES A BIOTERRORIST FLU VIRUS THREATENING AN APOCALYPSE By David Hinckley
 
 
Containment is as close as you’ll get to an antidote for Walking Dead withdrawal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
19
AMC MINISERIES INJECTS SYRIAN EXTREMISTS INTO LE CARRE'S 'NIGHT MANAGER' By David Hinckley
 
 
If you thought Hugh Laurie had an unpleasant side back on House, wait ‘til you see him in The Night Manager...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
17
TALKING WITH RANDALL POSTER: THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC OF HBO'S 'VINYL' By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO’s Vinyl has had a few rough spins, but as we head toward the first season finale, the music has stayed loud and clear.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
15
ANNUAL ‘BARKFEST’ WILL TELL US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR DOGS By David Hinckley
 
 
In the Facebook age, some of us might want to be a little more careful about how we friend our dogs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
'BONES' GETS COMPLICATED BY A LIFE-CHANGING INJURY By David Hinckley
 
 

Jack Hodgins is no Matthew Crawley. Dr. Hodgins, played by T.J. Thyne on the Fox drama Bones, starts the second half of the show’s eleventh season in a wheelchair...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

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