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
Oct
12
 
 
Amazon paid a whole lot of money to snag The Romanoffs, Matthew Weiner’s first project since Mad Men...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
10
 
 
All American is the best prime-time high school football drama since Friday Night Lights. Okay, there isn’t a lot of competition there. But you wouldn’t put a show in the same sentence as FNL if it didn’t have some game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
8
 
 
It was probably an unintended consequence of television that it killed the circus. Actually, TV didn’t kill every circus. It just undermined Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, America’s alpha circus for close to a century...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
7
 
 
Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) has noticeably longer hair as The Walking Dead ambles into Season 9 on AMC at 9 p.m. ET Sunday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
5
 
 
If you need a little more blood and gore in your TV life, but don’t have time to watch all of American Horror Story, Hulu has an alternative...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
5
 
 
Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle returns Friday after a long hiatus, and it’s as dense as ever. Also, it’s as good as ever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
2
 
 
Several decades ago, University of Michigan basketball player Chris Webber recalled walking down the street wondering if he had enough money to buy a sandwich just as he passed a sporting goods store selling Chris Webber jerseys....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
1
 
 
As Jerry Seinfeld once proved, a sitcom can succeed without having a profound point. Two sitcoms debuting Monday on CBS need a point. Or at least they need something...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
1
 
 
The new documentary Queen of the World should separate casual from hard-core devotees of the British royal family...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
30
 
 
The broadcast networks are testing a couple of curveballs this season, none more off-speed than God Friended Me...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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