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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2019

Jul

'PEARSON,' THE 'SUITS' SPINOFF, PROVIDES MORE GOOD DRAMA ON USA By David Hinckley

When USA decided to spin the Jessica Pearson character from Suits off into her own series, they didn’t just send her next door. They sent her to another galaxy...

2019

Jul

'PANDORA,' DEBUTING ON THE CW, IS CHEESY…BUT IN A GOOD WAY By David Hinckley

Okay, let’s get this out of the way right up front. The CW’s new summer series Pandora is filmed in Bulgaria and features spacecraft that look like those old 1950s props where you could almost see the wires...

2019

Jul

ACORN DROPS SEASON 2 OF 'LONDON KILLS' By David Hinckley

At a time when U.S. television has been taking a small breather, Acorn steps in with new episodes of the breezy police procedural London Kills...

2019

Jul

A REFRESHING LOOK AT STARTING OUT IN NEW YORK ON 'SWEETBITTER' By David Hinckley

Meet the new Tess, not the same as the old Tess...

2019

Jul

A NEW VICAR JOINS 'GRANTCHESTER' ON PBS By David Hinckley

Not to get all melodramatic or anything, but Grantchester opens Season 4 with life-threatening major surgery...

2019

Jul

THE MAGIC OF PRODUCER RICK RUBIN AND 'SHANGRI-LA' ON SHOWTIME By David Hinckley

Some creative geniuses should not be asked to explain how they do it. Shangri-La, a four-part documentary that debuts at 9 p.m. ET Friday on Showtime, adds Rick Rubin to that list...

2019

Jul

NEW SPECIALS REVISIT THE FIRST WALK ON THE MOON By David Hinckley

Something like half a billion people gathered around TV sets in 1969 to watch a moment that remains an exhilarating testament to what humans can do when they don’t waste so much of their energy fighting each other. So it should surprise no one that television will spend many hours this month revisiting that event...

2019

Jul

SEASON 3 BRINGS ON THE FALLOUT OF 'DIVORCE' By David Hinckley

For those who might see the termination of a marriage as a means of making life less uncomfortable and stressful for all concerned, HBO’s Divorce continues to argue that it doesn’t necessarily work out that way...

2019

Jul

SEASON 2 OF 'THE SIMPLE HEIST' IS AN IMPROVEMENT By David Hinckley

The Simple Heist asks us to be a bit more tolerant of its indulgences in Season 2, which happily doesn’t make it any less fun...

2019

Jun

A SPY THRILLER WITH A TWIST, 'THE ROOK' MAKES IT TO STARZ By David Hinckley

Like its older sister Outlander, Starz’s new drama The Rook doesn’t parlay a supernatural premise into a supernatural show...

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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.