DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

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NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2017
Sep
25
 
 
If you ever wondered whether there might have been a time in Sheldon Cooper’s life when his behavior was cute and charming, the answer apparently is no, not really...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
25
 
 
NBC’s new terrorism drama The Brave edges back toward the traditional macho message of “Don’t mess with America, punk"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
You don’t have to have been caught in 125-mile-an-hour winds to have asked yourself in the last couple of weeks exactly what’s going on with hurricanes this year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
Hundreds of cop series over the years have reached for that intangible extra dimension and a small handful have found it: Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, The Wire...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
21
 
 
The line between comedy and tragedy remains thin and the ambience remains familiar as Doc Martin strides firmly into its long-awaited eighth season this week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
20
 
 
NBC’s The Good Place did something pretty cool to end its first season last spring. It blew up its whole premise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
20
 
 
Imagine running a mile in 4 minutes and 34 seconds. Then imagine running 26 of them in a row...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
20
 
 
If you’re looking for old-school horror, where suddenly your worst nightmares seem to have become your reality, Syfy’s Channel Zero: No-End House delivers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
18
 
 
National Geographic’s two-night miniseries on four British Muslims who join ISIS raises more questions than it answers about what we Westerners pretty much all wonder, which is, “Why would anyone do that?”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
15
 
 
Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, a 10-part, 18-hour PBS epic, pokes a spot that’s still raw, tender and painful...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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