DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2021
Feb
16
 
 
As a few new shows bravely fight their way to the air in television's lost season, NBC hopes that cooped-up Americans will embrace a pair of sitcoms featuring two of the country's best-known and best-liked stars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
A new documentary on Kim Jong-un suggests the North Korean supreme commander faces a dilemma, not unlike that faced by Al Pacino's Michael Corleone in Godfather II...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
Marian Anderson did not want to become a political symbol. She just wanted to be a singer. She ended up being both, and, frankly, it was partly kind of her own fault...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
 
 
The filming is often as dark as the story in the new miniseries The Luminaries...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
12
 
 
The roots of hip-hop have been explored at some length in the years since it improbably became the dominant sound of mainstream American popular music...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
11
 
 
It's way too easy, not to mention tasteless, to say that the new drama, Clarice, isn't a very satisfying meal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
4
 
 
Kate Jameson is that rarest of all TV cops. She comes to the job with no baggage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
3
 
 
"Strange how people who have suffered together have stronger connections than those who are most content," Bob Dylan once sang, and among the many people to whom that could apply are Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Some TV detectives – you know who you are – are bulls in the china shop, getting information and solving crimes by a sheer show of power...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Almost from the start of the worldwide COVID-19 crisis, China has become an international virus football. China's role and culpability, or lack of it, has been kicked every which way, often depending on the agenda of the kicker...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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