Televangelists might look like easy marks for satirists. They are not. Like soap operas, televangelists go so far over the top they almost preempt satire...

2019

Aug

'OUR BOYS' IS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF REVENGE THAT LED TO WAR By David Hinckley

Our Boys, a dramatized retelling of the fallout from a triple kidnapping/murder in Israel in 2014, plays like the popular American Crime Story series on steroids...

2019

Aug

'THE TERROR: INFAMY' RECALLS WHAT PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF DOING TO ONE ANOTHER By David Hinckley

Season 2 of AMC’s The Terror anthology series delivers the requisite supernatural horror. But the real horror in The Terror: Infamy lies outside the purview of demons. It lies in what people do to each other...

2019

Aug

THE HISTORY OF WHAT WE EAT ON 'THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA' By David Hinckley

Even those of us who have been going into supermarkets for years would probably assume, if we thought about it, that food distribution has always been pretty much the way it is today...

2019

Aug

THE ARTISTRY OF ZIGGY STARDUST IN 'DAVID BOWIE: FINDING FAME' By David Hinckley

Rock ‘n’ roll history is littered with the frustrating stories of artists who were musically brilliant and almost comically inept in navigating the other parts of the music business. The name David Bowie will never appear in those stories...

2019

Aug

BRITISH POLICE DRAMA COMES TO BROADCAST NETWORK TV WITH 'BULLETPROOF' By David Hinckley

Police procedurals from other countries, some English-speaking and some not, have become the lifeblood of multiple streaming and cable services these days...

2019

Aug

'BH90210,' NOT SURPRISINGLY, ISN'T WORTH THE HYPE By David Hinckley

The latest Beverly Hills 90210 reboot, cleverly titled BH90210, calls to mind two lines from the television criticism game...

2019

Aug

'WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION.' OR MAYBE NOT. By David Hinckley

The 1969 Woodstock festival was not the most significant flashpoint of the 1960s counterculture, but it has always been the most over-romanticized...

2019

Aug

THE ANIMAL FAMILIES OF THE 'SERENGETI' ON DISCOVERY By David Hinckley

Add Discovery to the channels sending out the message that, while life in the wilds of Africa may be endlessly fascinating, we should not get sentimental about it...

Posts 371-380 of 1503

37 38 39 40 41

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.

New From TVWW

David Hinckley

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'