When film icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford made their only movie together, it generated good copy that they didn’t like each other. The question now is whether that's worth eight hours of our contemporary live...

2017

Mar

TWO VERY DIFFERENT TIME TRIPS PREMIERE SAME NIGHT By David Hinckley

Fans of time-travel television have their choice of two very different trips Sunday...

2017

Mar

A SHORT YET PROLIFIC AND POWERFUL LIFE STORY IS TOLD ON ‘PATSY CLINE: AMERICAN MASTERS’ By David Hinckley

More than half a century after her death, Patsy Cline remains a north star to women artists in country music and beyond...

2017

Mar

EDI GATHEGI TALKS MATIAS SOLOMON AND ‘THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION’ By David Hinckley

Matias Solomon has already experienced resurrection, Edi Gathegi muses. So why not go for redemption as well?...

2017

Mar

‘WHEN WE RISE’ HIGHLIGHTS THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY By David Hinckley

To many Americans outside the LGBTQ movement, “gay rights” blew in like a tornado out of nowhere...

2017

Mar

WITH ‘CHICAGO JUSTICE,’ THE BRAND MAY HAVE REACHED THE BREAKING POINT By David Hinckley

Chicago Justice may mark the point at which we’re getting just a little too much Chicago...

2017

Mar

HULU’S ‘NATIONAL TREASURE’ IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK, BUT IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD WATCH By David Hinckley

No, Hulu’s National Treasure doesn’t serialize the popular movie of the same name. It would be less disquieting to watch if it did...

2017

Feb

BILL PAXTON -- AN APPRECIATION By David Hinckley

You can walk down the street of almost any American town and see a thousand people who look like Bill Paxton...

2017

Feb

‘THE OBAMA YEARS: THE POWER OF WORDS’ WOULD BE STRONGER IF IT INCLUDED MORE OF HIM ACTUALLY SPEAKING By David Hinckley

A new Smithsonian Channel special makes such a strong case for former President Barack Obama’s speechmaking skills that it’s frustrating the special doesn’t include more of them...

2017

Feb

ACORN DEBUTS ‘CODE OF A KILLER,’ A SHOW ABOUT CRIME AND DNA WITHOUT THE BELLS AND WHISTLES By David Hinckley

Acorn TV’s latest import, Code of a Killer, defies most rules of contemporary TV crime drama...

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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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