DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2016
Jan
14
 
 
Norbert Leo Butz half-jokes that he couldn’t resist joining the new PBS drama Mercy Street “because it’s Grey’s Anatomy with historical integrity"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
13
 
 
PASADENA, CA -- Becoming a star in the thriving field of tween and teen television gives you many things, one of which is not a guarantee you can remain a star at the next level...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
12
 
 
The biggest single-event industry in television history will expand this year to include more runup specials about past commercials, a new runup retrospective on great past halftime shows, more hours of pregame show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
12
 
 
It’s a new year and a new name for the ABC Family channel, which as of Tuesday becomes Freeform, and apparently the first order of business is to save the world from demons...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
12
 
 
PASADENA, CA – Rachel Bloom’s Golden Globe win Sunday night for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just might help bring in the biggest long shot on television: saving her show from extinction...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
12
 
 
PASADENA, CA -- New York in the 1970s was dirty and dangerous. Hey, wait, so was rock ‘n’ roll...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
10
 
 
Now here’s a Downton Abbey faceoff none of us would have foreseen in our most feverish dreams...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
10
 
 
If you’re a fan of the cult comic Preacher, AMC’s long-awaited TV series adaptation will sometimes leave you trying to figure out exactly what’s going on. And what’s our point?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
9
 
 
The Starz series Outlander lands in a new country this April, when it returns for its long-awaited Season 2. Instead of the rugged hills of Scotland, our heroes Jamie and Claire repair to Paris... looking like the most glamorous and colorful place this side of Downton Abbey...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
8
 
 
If you want to disregard science, says Neil deGrasse Tyson, that’s your right as an American. Just don’t forget it may come at a cost...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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