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

 
 
 
 
 
2018
May
22
 
 
If any campaign can cross party lines this summer, it should be the one PBS has just launched: It wants us to read books...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
22
 
 
Will Shortz is a two-sport athlete: Table tennis and crossword puzzles...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
21
 
 
Once upon a time in the New York area, there was a man who called himself Crazy Eddie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
Television seems to have an unusually full slate of military-related programming for Memorial Day this year, and the Smithsonian Channel helps kick it off Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with Carriers at War...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
 
 
In an age when most news flashes turn out to be hollow grabs for attention, the one about Hedy Lamarr a couple of years ago was genuinely stunning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
13
 
 
There’s a scene in Downton Abbey where Lady Grantham laments the fractious relationship among her three children by sighing, “No one ever tells you about raising daughters. You think it’s going to be like Little Women...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
 
 
A show starring Benedict Cumberbatch may not constitute a rarity these days, but Patrick Melrose provides an industrial-strength dose of the video world’s most wanted man...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
If you’ve ever wistfully wondered whether anyone will make a John Hughes movie again, this should cheer you up: Someone has...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
Sweetbitter may have found a way to make the wild side of twentysomething New York life bingeable for viewers who aren’t twentysomething themselves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
10
 
 

Most of us, when we plow into one of the thousand awkward moments that comprise daily life, take a deep breath, suck it up, and stumble on...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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