It hasn't been easy to make a TV series these last few years that feels different since the avalanche of programming has filled just about every crack. HBO's Room 104...achieves "different."...

2020

Jul

THE TIDE OF SHARK-CENTRIC PROGRAMMING BEGINS WITH SHARKFEST 2020 ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL AND NATGEO WILD By David Hinckley

Nat Geo's annual plunge into the world of sharks, appropriately titled SHARKFEST, keeps getting bigger – and yet its core mission remains exactly what it has always been and probably always will be...

2020

Jul

'THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS,' STARRING LAURA CARMICHAEL, IS A STRONG PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER By David Hinckley

Honestly, it's a little uncomfortable to see dramatizations about women whose need for a baby makes them criminally unbalanced...

2020

Jul

'THE CAPTURE' IS A FANTASTIC THRILLER WITH A TIMELY THEME By David Hinckley

NBC's new Peacock service, which officially launches Wednesday, makes a smart bet by including the British series The Capture in its opening-day lineup...

2020

Jul

'BRAVE NEW WORLD' REMINDS US WE NEED TO GET OUT OF OUR OWN WAY By David Hinckley

It's just as hard to create a Utopian community on TV, apparently, as it is in real life. In both cases, the problem stems from the inconvenient and annoying fact that even Utopian communities need to include people...

2020

Jul

EXPOSING THE DARK SIDE OF BEING A CHILD ACTOR THROUGH 'SHOWBIZ KIDS,' A DOCUMENTARY FROM A FORMER CHILD ACTOR By David Hinckley

The new HBO documentary Showbiz Kids starts by telling us that 20,000 children audition each year for entertainment gigs – TV, movies, commercials, and so on. About 95% get no offers...

2020

Jul

THE DELICATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A COUPLE AND THEIR SURROGATE IN THE NEWEST DRAMA, 'THE NEST,' ON ACORN By David Hinckley

The new British series The Nest offers something a little different: a sometimes-creepy psycho-thriller built around the fragile world of surrogate parenting...

2020

Jul

A DEEPER, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD OF – AND HARD WORK INVOLVED WITH – STRIP CLUBS By David Hinckley

One of Paul Simon's many perfect lines in "The Boxer" had his narrator "seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go / Looking for the places only they would know."...

2020

Jul

'LITTLE VOICE' HAS A FAMILIAR BUT ENTERTAINING THEME WITH BEAUTIFUL SONGS BY SARA BAREILLES By David Hinckley

"Girl tackles the big city" has been a theme of dramas since forever, so it's no surprise that it has quietly emerged as a consistently interesting subgenre in our current ocean of TV programming...

2020

Jul

AN UNVARNISHED AND INFORMATIVE LESSON ON WINNING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO 'THE VOTE' By David Hinckley

Four hours might seem like a long time to trace the history of how America finally and reluctantly granted women the right to vote. If so, just imagine how the passage of time felt to the women...

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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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