One of the astronauts in PBS’s new Beyond a Year in Space documentary recalls that when she told a friend she was going into astronaut training, the friend said he thought we didn’t do that anymore...

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‘FUTURE MAN’ IS ABOVE-AVERAGE SATIRE By David Hinckley

The notion of an imperfect superhero has been around for some time, and Hulu’s new Future Man series proves we still have lots of fun new places to explore...

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‘ILL BEHAVIOUR’ DEBUTS ON SHOWTIME By David Hinckley

Showtime’s new Brit import Ill Behaviour plays like a screwball comedy written by a room full of depressed people who have gone off their meds...

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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SUPERHERO UNIVERSE WITH ‘SECRET HISTORY OF THE COMICS’ By David Hinckley

To be honest, Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of the Comics doesn’t reveal many secrets...

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‘WOLF CREEK’ IS FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD By David Hinckley

The Wolf Creek horror series has a dirty little secret: Sometimes in life, the bad guys win...

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MISSY PEREGRYM ON SCARLETT HARKER AND SYFY’S ‘VAN HELSING’ By David Hinckley

Missy Peregrym doesn’t waste a lot of time warming up before she jumps into battle on Syfy’s Van Helsing...

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THE STRUGGLES OF 1930'S IOWA LIFE ON ‘DAMNATION’ By David Hinckley

The grapes of wrath grow like kudzu on USA’s intense new drama Damnation, which premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET...

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‘THE LONG ROAD HOME’ REMINDS US OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR By David Hinckley

Six weeks after PBS aired Ken Burns’s sobering The Vietnam War, we have a sequel: National Geographic’s The Long Road Home...

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‘ALIAS GRACE,’ SET IN THE PAST, DEBUTS ON NETFLIX WITH TOPICS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PRESENT By David Hinckley

If you’re looking for a snappy and tidy resolution to a notorious murder case, don’t count on Netflix’s Alias Grace...

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KEVIN KLINE IN NOEL COWARD’S ‘PRESENT LAUGHTER’ ON PBS’ ‘GREAT PERFORMANCES’ By David Hinckley

Noel Coward’s Present Laughter provided jolly good escapist fun during World War II and it performs exactly the same function today...

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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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