DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Nov
3
 
 
Basketball star LeBron James took half the advice from people, up to and tacitly including the president of the United States, who told him to shut up and dribble...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
2
 
 
Over the past twenty or so years, the Watergate scandal has become one of America’s historical abstractions, like the Great Depression or the Roaring Twenties...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
2
 
 
Amazon Prime has pulled together a fine cast to tell a fine story in the new psycho-thriller Homecoming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
31
 
 
We all speculate from time to time about what cities like New York, Tokyo, London, and Miami will look like in the future. This produces a wide range of dreams and visions, among which we usually find a consensus on at least one point: We don’t want them to look like Atlantis...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
29
 
 
Lest anyone think Smithsonian’s new Lost Tapes special on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton is just an exercise in uncomfortable nostalgia, the documentary opens with an old news clip of Clinton at a podium saying he will “make America great again.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
28
 
 
Partway through the first episode in Season 6 of Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber’s Ray – that’s Ray from the South Boston Donovans – walks into a bar wearing a Yankees cap. That, my friend, is how a TV show signals a reset...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
28
 
 
Christian Brassington has the best of both worlds: He gets all the fun of playing a really sleazy character on television yet in real life he doesn’t get stopped on the street by viewers who want to scold him about it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
25
 
 
Apparently, it isn’t only in the shadowy darkness that vampires live forever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
24
 
 
The Bodyguard, a TV series not to be confused with the Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner movie, opens with British policeman David Budd trying to talk a woman out of detonating the suicide vest into which her husband has strapped her...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
23
 
 
In real life, Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice probably wouldn’t stand a chance in a faceoff with Harry Potter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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