With the U.S. health system under a microscope at the moment because of the coronavirus, PBS is offering a relevant reminder that no one health system anywhere in the world has a monopoly on care...

2020

Apr

VISIT THE BEACHES OF 'THE MALLORCA FILES' MIXED WITH SOME CRIME AND COMEDY By David Hinckley

If the first job of the police is to solve crimes, the second job of police procedurals sometimes is to have fun. Okay, it sounds callous when you phrase it that way...

2020

Mar

HBO'S 'THE SCHEME' BRINGS THE DARK SIDE OF COLLEGE SPORTS INTO THE LIGHT By David Hinckley

Americans really don't want to believe there could be corruption, double-dealing, cynicism, green or crass motivations in their beloved college sports. Thing is, there is...

2020

Mar

WITH 'COUNCIL OF DADS,' A COMPANION SHOW HAS COME ALONG FOR 'THIS IS US' By David Hinckley

Someone at NBC seems to feel that This Is Us needs a friend. So it has bought the TV equivalent of a new puppy: Council Of Dads, another uplifting family drama that premieres...

2020

Mar

'MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS' IS A WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING WAY TO ESCAPE By David Hinckley

Indiana Jones would have a good time working alongside Phryne Fisher. Their kindred spirit, figurative though it may be, shines through one more time in Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears...

2020

Mar

OCTAVIA SPENCER STARS IN 'SELF-MADE,' THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MADAM C.J. WALKER By David Hinckley

We know where the story of Madam C.J. Walker is going. At the time of her death in 1919, no woman in America had earned more money on her own...

2020

Mar

BINGEWORTHY OPTIONS: S, M, L, XL By David Hinckley

We’ve all said it, the sentence that begins “If I only had time." Well, now maybe we do...

2020

Mar

A NEW DRAMA FROM HULU, 'LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE,' PROVIDES A DELIGHTFUL DISTRACTION By David Hinckley

Little Fires Everywhere, a new miniseries premiering Wednesday on Hulu, starts with a big fire. A great huge old mansion in Shaker Heights...

2020

Mar

SINCE YOU'RE PROBABLY SPENDING A LOT OF TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA, LEARN ABOUT IT ON 'NIALL FERGUSON'S NETWORLD' By David Hinckley

You don't need to watch three hours of television to grasp that there are both good and bad things about the Internet and social media...

2020

Mar

'THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA' IS A DIFFICULT BUT NECESSARY SERIES TO WATCH By David Hinckley

Treating all persons equally has not always been a hallmark of American behavior. About the best we can say is that over the years we've gotten better and anyway, we were never as bad as Stalinist Russia or Hitler's Germany or Mao's China...

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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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