The real-life story behind NBC’s new Rise could make a wonderfully inspiring documentary. Whether it seeds a compelling weekly series could be a different question...

2018

Mar

'JANE' IS A LOVE STORY - OF NATURE, AND OF HUMAN NATURE By David Hinckley

This is far from the first Jane Goodall film, but it has something the others did not: excerpts from hundreds of hours of footage shot by Goodall’s soon-to-be husband Hugo Van Lawick during her early years in Africa...

2018

Mar

ABC'S 'DECEPTION' ISN'T VERY MAGICAL By David Hinckley

The best magic tricks seem to be effortless. ABC’s new drama Deception, which revolves around an illusionist, too often feels like it’s working too hard...

2018

Mar

NETFLIX'S 'COLLATERAL' DELIVERS INTRIGUE ALONG WITH ITS PIZZA By David Hinckley

At first it seems like the most random murder of the whole TV season: A South London pizza deliverer is shot twice in the chest as he leaves the building where he made the delivery. Collateral, a four-part closed-end Netflix miniseries that becomes available Friday (March 9), weaves a much more complex story...

2018

Mar

A BLEAK 'MARVEL'S JESSICA JONES' HITS NETFLIX FOR SEASON 2 By David Hinckley

If you thought the death of her worst adversary and the passage of two and a half years would brighten Jessica Jones’s world by even one milliwatt, you have not been paying attention...

2018

Mar

'THE OATH,' AND 50 CENT, BRING DIRTY COPS TO CRACKLE By David Hinckley

On TV, at least, being a dirty cop looks like really hard work...

2018

Mar

'LIFE SENTENCE' WITH LUCY HALE COMES TO THE CW By David Hinckley

There are worse problems than the one faced by Stella Abbott in the new CW drama Life Sentence...

2018

Mar

BBC AND HULU COME TOGETHER FOR 'HARD SUN' By David Hinckley

The new thriller Hard Sun plays mix-and-match with two notions TV has tackled often: odd-couple cops and the end of the world...

2018

Mar

THE FUTURE OF PBS? By David Hinckley

Call it an interesting coincidence that PBS is launching a conservative-hosted weekly talk show at the same time the network is facing a push from President Trump and conservative legislators to cut off federal funds for public broadcasting...

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