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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2017

Sep

ELISABETH MOSS KEEPS IT COMPELLING IN RETURN OF ‘TOP OF THE LAKE’ By David Hinckley

Robin Griffin has returned. Cuddly, no. Compelling, yes...

2017

Sep

'COLD FEET' REMINDS US THAT YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T OWN THE MARKET ON ANXIETY AND TURMOIL By David Hinckley

The revived British series Cold Feet hums along on the admirable premise that soapy, angst-driven life crises are not only for the young...

2017

Sep

'OUTLANDER' IS BACK AND SO IS 20TH CENTURY BRITAIN By David Hinckley

Outlander finally launches its long-awaited third season on Starz this Sunday, 8 p.m. ET, and for us fans it was worth the wait...

2017

Sep

CELEBRATING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SYFY By David Hinckley

Once upon a time, in an America not so long ago or far away, science fiction was a cult. Today it’s more like an ATM...

2017

Sep

JENNIFER BEALS EXAMINES THE THRILL OF PLAYING MARGO IN ‘THE LAST TYCOON’ By David Hinckley

Even though she’s starring in a TV series rooted in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Jennifer Beals isn’t sure Fitzgerald could have written her character...

2017

Sep

‘YOU’RE THE WORST’ RETURNS FOR SEASON 4 By David Hinckley

Jimmy and Gretchen never took the good times particularly well on FXX’s You’re the Worst. You can imagine how they’re coping with the bad times...

2017

Sep

EXAMINING THE LIFE, DEATH, AND INFLUENCE OF ‘BIGGIE: THE LIFE OF NOTORIOUS B.I.G.’ By David Hinckley

If the late rapper Biggie Smalls returned for long enough to make a movie about his life, it would look exactly like A&E’s new Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G....

2017

Sep

ACORN REPRISES 'THE GOVERNOR' FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND By David Hinckley

Fans of Janet McTeer, which should mean everyone, can get a lovely serving of her early work when Acorn TV revives her 1995-95 series The Governor just in time for Labor Day...

2017

Sep

SHELLEY BERMAN 1925 – 2017 By David Hinckley

Shelley Berman may have been the first person whose career was crippled by reality television. Okay, the second, if you count Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But McCarthy deserved it...

2017

Sep

'NEIL GAIMAN’S LIKELY STORIES' TAKES A DIFFERENT SLANT ON FRIGHT By David Hinckley

AMC’s boutique horror channel Shudder takes a different tack this week with Neil Gaiman, one of the genre’s modern masters...

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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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