DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

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Associate Editor

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Assistant Editor

Contributors

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2016
Dec
9
 
 
On the surface, the new Netflix docuseries Captive looks like the kind of crime-themed revisitation that we regularly see on Dateline, 48 Hours and various reality shows...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
9
 
 
Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, previously one of the coolest shows around, remains one of the coolest shows around...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
8
 
 
If you’ve heard the name Picasso all your life and always felt like you should know a little more about him, Ovation TV has the ticket...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
7
 
 
Among its several other breakthroughs, Fox’s hit drama Empire has positioned a gay artist as an R&B star and built several storylines about the homophobia he faces – including from his own father...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
5
 
 
There’s nothing like a bucolic little village with a stunning rate of sordid murders, as PBS’s Grantchester has proven, and that’s confirmed again with The Brokenwood Mysteries...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
4
 
 
If your main thought about the atomic bomb is that you’re just glad no one ever detonated one in America, you should maybe think again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
2
 
 
If you love FX’s Archer – and who, to be honest, cannot love Archer? – you need to check out Netflix’s new Pacific Heat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
30
 
 
The late Grant Tinker is being remembered today as a man who brought out the best in television, and his legacy supports that almost mystical accolade. It’s worth adding, however, that Tinker also lived in the real TV world, where your whole menu can’t be shiitake mushroom soufflés. Sometimes you also need burgers and fries or you won’t stay in business. When Tinker died Monday at the age of 90, the gems of his career deserved everything that’s being said about
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
29
 
 
Incorporated's Julia Ormond talks about Syfy's unsettling vision of a future in which cold, soulless mega-corporations rule what’s left of the world for the benefit of a select elite...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
29
 
 
It’s way too common for a TV show to start off strong and soon be running on empty. But a select few shows have a less dynamic opening and then get good. This season, that small group includes NBC’s This Is Us...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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