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

 
 
 
 
 
2020
Nov
23
 
 
It's 1934, and a bunch of nuns from India troop across part of the Himalayas to move into an old palace in a remote village where they plan to start a school for native children. What could possibly go wrong?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
22
 
 
In 1984, two years after comedian John Belushi was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel cottage from a fatal mashup of heroin and cocaine, journalist Bob Woodward wrote Wired...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
19
 
 
The public visibility of socio-political campaigns surges and recedes, often with little relation to the importance of the issue they focus on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
17
 
 
Memo to TV viewers: The broadcast networks are still in business...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
15
 
 
In a perfect world, America's president would not be a performer, and the presidency would not be a role...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
13
 
 
British spying somehow looks more exotic than American spying, a peculiarity underscored by a new British adaptation of the Alex Rider spy series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
11
 
 
At some point during Wednesday's telecast of the 54th annual Country Music Association Awards, the association will do something it has never done in its previous 53 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
10
 
 
However you feel about the apparent outcome of last Tuesday's American presidential election, you should be chilled by a new three-part PBS docu-series that illustrates how easily democracy can die...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
9
 
 
A new British drama titled Industry becomes the latest production to suggest that breaking into the world of high finance requires mortgaging your body and soul...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
9
 
 
"Dramedy" is an appealing description for a TV show these days, and apparently you can earn it by simply not building your plot around a murder...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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