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2016
Nov
15
 
 
The good news about the civil rights struggle, suggests a new PBS special, is that we’re winning it. The less good news is that it will never be won. The price of human dignity remains eternal vigilance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
Shantel VanSanten has never been accused of shooting the president. But she’s still had to do some fighting to get to where she is today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
If they gave Emmys to the actor who most aggressively avoided stereotyping, Michelle Dockery could be writing her acceptance speech right now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
15
 
 
The Profit in Cuba, a special edition of Marcus Lemonis’s CNBC show about making money through commerce, calls to mind the old joke about two friends who are ambushed by a hungry bear...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
14
 
 
National Geographic’s ambitious six-part series Mars presents a full-throttle, all-in vision of how we Earthlings might actually, seriously, really open a colony on the Red Planet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
14
 
 
Frank Sinatra records would rarely be confused with Public Enemy records. But the thing to understand about record production, says Hank Shocklee, is that the principle is the same...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
13
 
 
Acorn TV, best known as an importer of overseas programming, has banged out a solid hit with a new original production, the period spy drama Close to the Enemy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
12
 
 

Robert Vaughn left more behind than Napoleon Solo. The 83-year-old actor, who died Friday remained best known for playing Solo on the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which has endured more vividly in TV lore than it did on the air...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
12
 
 
She’s a drug addict and compulsive thief just coming off a prison term. He’s a professional hitman. They meet under sordid and lethal circumstances and quickly go criminal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
11
 
 
Imelda Staunton presses the pedal to the metal as the ultimate stage mother in the revival of Gypsy that airs Friday at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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