When Bob Ross called his PBS show The Joy of Painting, he meant it. And now, 20 years after his tragically early death, anyone who owns a computer can watch...

2015

Dec

'COAT OF MANY COLORS' STITCHES CHRISTMAS INTO A DOLLY PARTON BIO By David Hinckley

Coat of Many Colors, a new teleflick loosely built on Dolly Parton’s heartwarming 1971 country song, makes Hallmark Christmas movies look like The Walking Dead...

2015

Dec

10 MORSELS TO SAVOR FROM 'DOWNTON ABBEY' CAST VISIT TO NEW YORK By David Hinckley

With the final season of Downton Abbey less than a month away, a good chunk of the cast reunited this week in New York for what Hugh Bonneville observed might be the last time...

2015

Dec

'YOU'RE THE WORST' REWARDED FOR ITS BAD BEHAVIOR By David Hinckley

FXX’s You’re the Worst has pulled one of the best switch acts on television, which probably explains why its reward at the impending end of its second season is that it will get a third season...

2015

Dec

CBS SHOWCASES AN ALL-STAR SALUTE TO FRANK SINATRA AT 100 By David Hinckley

It’s always a risk to have Frank Sinatra’s music sung by someon else, but fragmentary indications suggest that Sunday night’s "Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Salute" on CBS should remind us why he earned this kind of celebration...

2015

Dec

EVA LONGORIA BUBBLES OVER IN NBC'S 'TELENOVELA' By David Hinckley

Eva Longoria seems to be having lots of fun in her return to prime-time TV as the star of NBC’s new comedy Telenovela...

2015

Dec

WITH 'DOWNTON'S' END IN SIGHT, PBS FACES A DILEMMA By David Hinckley

With the final Downton Abbey countdown under way, it’s time to extend a little sympathy to PBS for facing this season’s TV mission impossible: replacing the most popular show in network history...

2015

Nov

'GOTHAM' WRAPS MIDSEASON WITH MIXED RESULTS By David Hinckley

Fox’s Gotham, which underwent major surgery for its second season, wraps up the first half of that season Monday night at 8, and the results are mixed...

2015

Nov

NOW HERE’S A BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ANDREA BOCELLI VS. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN By David Hinckley

Okay, they’re not actually battling. But by coincidence, they both have TV specials airing at 9 p.m. ET Friday night...

2015

Nov

TURKEY DAY GOES TO THE DOGS By David Hinckley

Let’s make this simple. It’s time to join 25 million other Americans and add cute dogs to your Thanksgiving Day TV menu. The National Dog Show airs on NBC, right after the Macy’s parade and it’s the perfect appetizer before our long national overdose of turkey and football...

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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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