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2017

Feb

‘TAKEN’ COMES TO THE TV SCREEN By David Hinckley

Just because you loved the movie franchise Taken doesn’t mean you can take it easy when you watch NBC’s new quasi-prequel...

2017

Feb

THERE WERE QUITE A NUMBER OF MUSICALS THAT CAME BEFORE ‘LA LA LAND’ – AND MAYBE IT’S TIME YOU CHECKED OUT A FEW By David Hinckley

Before we learn whether La La Land sweeps the Oscars Sunday night (ABC, 8:30 p.m. ET), let’s put it in a little context...

2017

Feb

NBC’S ‘THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION’ COULD DELIVER GOOD KARMA By David Hinckley

The Blacklist: Redemption starts with the premise that a bunch of bad people are trying to save themselves...

2017

Feb

‘PATRIOT’ IS A SATIRIC SPY THRILLER – WAIT. WHAT? By David Hinckley

In an early scene from Amazon’s new series Patriot, our hero John Tavner catches up with another guy who has interviewed for a job Tavner wants. Tavner exchanges a few pleasantries with him and then calmly pushes him in front of a moving truck...

2017

Feb

CMT’S ‘SUN RECORDS’ RECALLS A PRIME TIME IN AMERICAN CULTURE By David Hinckley

The independent record business of the early 1950s was as crazy as the music was wonderful, and CMT’s new series Sun Records captures that spirit...

2017

Feb

JIMMY SMITS ON HIS ROLE OF JOHN DONOVAN ON ’24: LEGACY’ By David Hinckley

Jimmy Smits doesn’t see his presidential candidate character on Fox’s 24: Legacy reflecting any real-life political figures. He seems a little relieved by that...

2017

Feb

‘THE GOOD FIGHT’ DEBUTS ON CBS BEFORE MOVING TO CBS ALL ACCESS – AND YOU MAY WANT TO FOLLOW IT By David Hinckley

If the last thing you need is one more place where you have to buy a TV show, then you’d probably be delighted if the first original drama on CBS All Access, The Good Fight, were a piece of junk. Sorry. It’s not...

2017

Feb

HBO’S ‘BIG LITTLE LIES’ IS FILLED WITH BIG MYSTERIES By David Hinckley

HBO would love to ride Big Little Lies back to the top of the pay-cable drama mountain...

2017

Feb

CBS’ ‘DOUBT’ CAN GO IN MANY DIRECTIONS -- INCLUDING AWAY By David Hinckley

Katherine Heigl always looks good dressed in angst, but once again with the new CBS drama Doubt, the question is whether that can sustain a winning TV show...

2017

Feb

THE FOCUS OF ‘TOWER’ IS ON THE U OF T MASSACRE VICTIMS AND NOT THE SHOOTER – AS IT SHOULD BE By David Hinckley

A new documentary on the 1966 University of Texas murders, titled Tower, becomes an even stronger film as it goes along...

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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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