A whole lot of folks, presumably, are almost as saturated with COVID-19 coverage on television as they are by the restrictions COVID-19 has laid on them in real life...

2020

Jun

'GRANTCHESTER' RETURNS TO PBS WITH SEASON 5 By David Hinckley

With the menu of fresh TV feeling slimmed-down these days, PBS is doubtless delighted to bring back a proven winner...

2020

Jun

BEAUTIFUL 'BEECHAM HOUSE' ARRIVES ON PBS By David Hinckley

Most period dramas set in India dwell at least in part on the suffocating effects of British colonial rule. Beecham House, ...to a certain extent, flips that scenario...

2020

Jun

'STICKS AND STONES' AND OFFICE POLITICS By David Hinckley

Imagine The Office if it weren’t a comedy, and you’ve got a rough idea of Sticks and Stones...

2020

Jun

'TRACKERS,' THE SOUTH AFRICAN HIT THRILLER, ARRIVES ON CINEMAX By David Hinckley

Cinemax tosses another shovelful of red meat to action-TV fans with Trackers, a South African series that launches Friday...

2020

May

'LAUREL CANYON' IS A WONDERFUL REMEMBRANCE OF REMARKABLE MUSIC By David Hinckley

Laurel Canyon, a docuseries on the music from that fondly remembered Los Angeles outpost of yesteryear, hits the right chords...

2020

May

THE FAULT OF 'SPACE FORCE,' DEAR VIEWERS, IS NOT IN THE STARS By David Hinckley

The cast outshines the story in Space Force, a new Netflix comedy that launches on Friday...

2020

May

'MYTHIC QUEST: QUARANTINE' AND TV IN THE TIME OF – AND AFTER – COVID-19 By David Hinckley

Scary as it sounds to say out loud, television has been one of our national unifying and stabilizing forces during this pandemic thing...

2020

May

'GRANT' RELATES THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL AND RELUCTANT PRESIDENT By David Hinckley

Restoring the reputation of Ulysses S. Grant may not sit high on your history priority list. Even if it doesn’t, the three-night miniseries Grant...makes for a compelling watch and a surprisingly interesting story...

2020

May

KNOWING THE MEANING OF 'BARKSKINS' IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THIS FASCINATING DRAMA By David Hinckley

If you want a clue to where a new series called Barkskins is going, it helps first to figure out what “barkskins” means...

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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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