DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2021
Mar
31
 
 
I’m not likening the end of TVWW’s 14-year run to the end of life as we knew it… Where daily newspapers and magazines were once the nexus of TV criticism, it seems fair to say this is another reminder that a torch is passing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
30
 
 
The only thing more ominous and depressing than a PBS program titled Extinction is its content...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
28
 
 
Things are not going well for Jackie Rohr, and that's bad news for everyone. Because when things are going bad for Jackie, his solution is to make them bad for everyone else, too...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
27
 
 
And so a TV week that began with a series on Aretha Franklin wraps up with a documentary on Tina Turner. It must force-of-nature week on cable television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
22
 
 
A person who wakes up every morning thanking the Lord for escaping a childhood hometown is forced, suddenly, by circumstance to return. It's the plot that launches a thousand Hallmark movies every December...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
21
 
 
Nat Geo's exhaustive biopic on Aretha Franklin suggests it may have been more fun to listen to the Queen of Soul than to be the Queen of Soul...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
19
 
 
Lest any viewer thinks Marvel's new TV series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, will follow WandaVision and start with a crazy if delightful detour into a whole different world, it doesn't...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
19
 
 
You won't see a stranger use of television this year than the new Apple TV+ series Calls, whose ten episodes begin streaming Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
16
 
 
The Mayans are back. Nobody’s happy and several people who were alive at the beginning of the first return episode are dead at the end. Clearly some things were not changed by the pandemic...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
15
 
 
As U.S. networks and streaming services troll the world for programming to fill their COVID-induced void, some of the shows they reel in are inevitably better than others...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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