Rosalie Douglas’s world has been shattered to pieces. So imagine how happy she is when a stranger unexpectedly arrives with a glue gun. Unless, of course, it’s really a mallet...

2020

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NAT GEO SHARES THE BRAVE STORY OF 'HEROES OF THE SKY: THE REAL MIGHTY EIGHTH' By David Hinckley

As America struggles to wind down another war that has not gone well, National Geographic is using the Memorial Day weekend to remind us of those who fought the last war that did...

2020

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AN APPRECIATION: KEN OSMOND 1943 - 2020 By David Hinckley

I have a friend, Joe, who argued years ago that the most important character on television for a kid growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s was...Eddie Haskell from Leave It To Beaver...

2020

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'DEAD STILL' IS A VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERY FILLED WITH LAUGHS By David Hinckley

As possibly the most humorless man on television, Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) has found the perfect job. He takes formal portraits of the dead...

2020

May

'HIGHTOWN' MURDER TALE HAS LIVELY PROVINCETOWN AS BACKDROP By David Hinckley

Jackie Quinones spends her evenings walking through the streets of Provincetown snorting cocaine, drinking whatever someone puts in front of her... During the daytime she works in law enforcement...

2020

May

CLASS WARFARE IN CLOSE QUARTERS – ON TV – WITH 'SNOWPIERCER' By David Hinckley

The title character of the new TNT drama, Snowpiercer, is a train that has been circling the Earth for almost seven years...

2020

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'THE GREAT' MIGHT NOT BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY FUN TO WATCH By David Hinckley

Just a year after Helen Mirren portrayed Russia’s iconic ruler Catherine the Great, Catherine is back on TV with a startlingly different look...

2020

May

FOR THE MEANING OF "PROPHETIC," SEE 'COOPED UP' By David Hinckley

You’re never going to believe what was lying around in a box labeled “charming small films made in 2016 in Australia.”...

2020

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A LOOK BACK AT 'THE HAPPY DAYS OF GARRY MARSHALL' By David Hinckley

We know they don’t make shows like Happy Days, Mork & Mindy or Laverne & Shirley any more...

2020

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'A CONFESSION' ARRIVES ON BRITBOX By David Hinckley

As long as there are real-life crimes, television writers will never run out of miniseries material. And that’s okay, whenever the miniseries is as well told as A Confession...

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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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