Given how many hour-long TV dramas these days shoot for funny – Scorpion, iZombie -- there’s no reason a half-hour sitcom can’t shoot for poignant...

2017

May

‘AMERICAN EPIC’ BRINGS EARLY MUSIC RECORDINGS TO LIFE By David Hinckley

I’m under no illusion that a whole lot of people will be excited about a PBS show that recounts the history of the Carter Family and the Memphis Jug Band...

2017

May

'FOREVER PURE' DOCUMENTARY SHOWS SPORTS ISN'T ALWAYS A GAME By David Hinckley

The new PBS documentary Forever Pure details another depressing example of how sports can be weaponized.

2017

May

THE REIGN OF ‘KING CHARLES III’ ON PBS By David Hinckley

If you want almost all your current perceptions of the British royal family obliterated, tune in King Charles III...

2017

May

AMAZON'S 'I LOVE DICK' EXPLORES MARRIAGE, ART AND ATTRACTION By David Hinckley

Up for another round of “No, no, what do you really think and how do you really feel?” Then you’ll want to spend Friday diving into Amazon’s new I Love Dick, an adaptation of Chris Kraus’s satiric 1997 novel...

2017

May

NETFILX'S NEW 'ANNE' MATCHES UP WITH THE GOOD ONES By David Hinckley

The sun rose in the East this morning, so it must be time for Anne of Green Gables to get adapted again. Happily, the new edition that arrives on the streaming service Netflix Friday, titled Anne With An E, is a good one...

2017

May

CHARLES BARKLEY TAKES THE COURT ON RACE By David Hinckley

As a TV sports commentator, Charles Barkley has been paid for years to be provocative. So it shouldn’t be surprising that in his first game as a conciliator – on the rather larger matter of race relations – he doesn’t always score...

2017

May

DAVID THEWLIS ON THE STORY OF V.M. VARGA OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley

Turns out the research for playing one of the most amoral psychos on television these days is simple: Turn on the news. “That was really how I did it,” says David Thewlis...

2017

May

‘THE LAST 100 DAYS OF DIANA’ IS A WORTHY EFFORT IN REMEMBERING THE PRINCESS, BUT A BIT OVERDONE By David Hinckley

Twenty years later, there may be no way to avoid getting melodramatic over the death of Princess Diana...

2017

May

‘BATMAN & BILL’ TELLS THE STORY OF THE BATTLING CREATORS OF THE CAPED CRUSADER By David Hinckley

Hulu’s new documentary Batman & Bill should engage even the casual comic book fan because, like all the best Batman capers, it has a solid villain...