Famous Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee comes across in a new HBO biography as very much like the mainstream media: at times arrogant, at times agreeable, at times annoying, at times elitist, and in the best moments indispensable...

2017

Dec

A 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF ‘60 MINUTES’ By David Hinckley

Fifty Years of 60 Minutes simply doesn’t have enough time to explain why, at its best, the show has been so good or built such a loyal audience...

2017

Dec

‘JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT,’ A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHEF WHOSE NAME YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD By David Hinckley

Revered chef Jeremiah Tower may seem at first like an icon from a world – upscale food – that most of us do not live in and rarely visit...

2017

Dec

THERE'S A CHANCE 'DARK' IS WORTH WATCHING, BUT IT'S HARD TO SEE – MOST OF THE TIME LITERALLY By David Hinckley

Dark lives up to its title. The new Netflix crime mystery drama plunges into a small, quiet German town where several young boys have gone missing...

2017

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JIM NABORS 1930 - 2017 By David Hinckley

Jim Nabors didn’t just create one of the great sitcom characters in television history with his goofy Gomer Pyle...

2017

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‘THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL’ IS MAGNIFICENT By David Hinckley

In today’s cluttered video universe, answering the casual question “So what’s good on television?” can be tricky...

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THE BIZARRE STORY OF A KIDNAPPING AND ITS AFTERMATH: 'THE LOST TAPES: PATTY HEARST' By David Hinckley

If you wrote the Patty Hearst story as fiction, no one would believe it...

2017

Nov

AMAZON’S ‘VIALS’ IS A COMEDY WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley

Amazon’s new Vials is low-tech TV that delivers high quality...

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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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