The Last Panthers is what Americans used to call a foreign film, only now it should probably be called foreign TV. It’s a six-hour closed-end series about a French jewel robbery whose epicenter quickly shifts to the murky backstreets of Serbia...

2016

Apr

DON'T GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO WATCH TBS'S 'DETOUR' By David Hinckley

I will watch any show with Natalie Zea in it. Any time, any place, anywhere. TBS’s new sitcom The Detour, which premieres Monday at 9 p.m. ET, makes that resolve a little harder to maintain...

2016

Apr

KEN BURNS: WHY JACKIE ROBINSON WAS BASEBALL'S MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER By David Hinckley

Ken Burns agrees that we can’t remember Jackie Robinson enough. He just wants us to remember the real Jackie Robinson. So he’s taken the Robinson segment of his Emmy-winning 1994 “Baseball” series and expanded it into a four-hour documentary...

2016

Apr

KIM DICKENS SHARES FUN FACTS FROM 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' By David Hinckley

So here are two fun zombie facts from Kim Dickens as AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead returns for its second season...

2016

Apr

IF IT’S 'THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE,' IT DOESN’T SEEM SO UNSEEMLY By David Hinckley

Starz’s steamy new series The Girlfriend Experience works hard to rebrand the ancient tradition of men paying women for sex. And why not? Finding a genteel name for that practice is almost as time-honored a tradition as the practice itself...

2016

Apr

'OUTLANDER': A PERIOD ROMANCE THAT'S EASY TO LOVE By David Hinckley

Caitriona Balfe gets to slip into some spectacular embroidered gowns in the new season of Starz’s Outlander. More impressive, that’s not how she steals the show.

2016

Apr

‘OUTLANDER’ TRANSPORTS BALFE BACK TO 18TH CENTURY SCOTLAND By David Hinckley

When Caitriona Balfe signed up to play Claire Randall in Outlander three years ago, she was asked if, by the way, she was prepared to have her life changed...

2016

Apr

‘NOVA’ FINDS VIKINGS GOT TO NORTH AMERICA MUCH EARLIER By David Hinckley

It’s almost as if the Vikings wanted to drive archeologists and historians nuts. Starting more than a thousand years ago, they sailed all over the known world and then found a few worlds that hadn’t been known, at least to Europeans...

2016

Apr

'THE WALKING DEAD' FAN COMMUNITY HITS BACK HARD By David Hinckley

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Spoiler alert! If you haven’t seen the Season 6 finale of The Walking Dead, you may not want to read on.] This may sound unkind, but watching millions of impassioned Walking Dead fans plunge into a collective state of Stage 4 apoplexy has been as much fun as the show itself...

2016

Apr

'A PLACE TO CALL HOME' REINVENTS ITSELF FOR SEASON 3 ON ACORN By David Hinckley

A few wishful references to the contrary, the 1950s Australian drama A Place to Call Home won’t make heartbroken fans forget Downton Abbey. But it’s worth watching all on its own...

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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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