DAVID BIANCULLI

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Contributors

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2016
Apr
4
 
 
The Detectorists achieves that rarest of all television distinctions: It’s not like anything else on the air. It’s a British comedy about two middle-aged guys whose passion is metal detecting. How often can you ever say that about a TV show?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
3
 
 

You could look at The Story of God With Morgan Freeman as a sequel to The Bucket List. Smashing up expensive racing cars with Jack Nicholson is fun and all that, but what happens, you know, next?...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
1
 
 
When they trace the impressive ascent of Netflix into the mainstream of original television productions, The Ranch will not be a major milestone...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
31
 
 
The television incarnation of Rush Hour, like the hit film, gives us just as much cop story as it needs to tie the laughs together...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
30
 
 
Fox’s lavish music biz soap Empire isn’t thinking small when it returns at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday for the second half of its second season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
29
 
 
Given that romanticizing outlaws has always been one of America’s favorite guilty pleasures, a lot of folks would love to think that three inmates really did escape from Alcatraz prison in June 1962...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
27
 
 
Grantchester, which returns Sunday for its second season, reminds us how PBS’s Masterpiece Theater earned its reputation. Just because every show doesn’t have the intangible magic of the late lamented Downton Abbey doesn’t mean a Grantchester, charmingly set in the 1950s, isn’t well worth the time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
26
 
 
James Norton agrees that PBS’s Grantchester tantalizes viewers with that most enduring of TV questions, "Will they or won’t they?"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
23
 
 
Donald Trump is even sucking up all the oxygen in a fake election...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
23
 
 
As a child of the Shonda Rhimes family, ABC’s new The Catch doubtless is counting on manic energy to pull viewers into a whirlwind of tense drama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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