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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2019
Jul
14
A REFRESHING LOOK AT STARTING OUT IN NEW YORK ON 'SWEETBITTER' By David Hinckley
 
 
Meet the new Tess, not the same as the old Tess...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
14
A NEW VICAR JOINS 'GRANTCHESTER' ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
Not to get all melodramatic or anything, but Grantchester opens Season 4 with life-threatening major surgery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
12
THE MAGIC OF PRODUCER RICK RUBIN AND 'SHANGRI-LA' ON SHOWTIME By David Hinckley
 
 
Some creative geniuses should not be asked to explain how they do it. Shangri-La, a four-part documentary that debuts at 9 p.m. ET Friday on Showtime, adds Rick Rubin to that list...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
7
NEW SPECIALS REVISIT THE FIRST WALK ON THE MOON By David Hinckley
 
 

Something like half a billion people gathered around TV sets in 1969 to watch a moment that remains an exhilarating testament to what humans can do when they don’t waste so much of their energy fighting each other. So it should surprise no one that television will spend many hours this month revisiting that event...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
1
SEASON 3 BRINGS ON THE FALLOUT OF 'DIVORCE' By David Hinckley
 
 
For those who might see the termination of a marriage as a means of making life less uncomfortable and stressful for all concerned, HBO’s Divorce continues to argue that it doesn’t necessarily work out that way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
1
SEASON 2 OF 'THE SIMPLE HEIST' IS AN IMPROVEMENT By David Hinckley
 
 
The Simple Heist asks us to be a bit more tolerant of its indulgences in Season 2, which happily doesn’t make it any less fun...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
30
A SPY THRILLER WITH A TWIST, 'THE ROOK' MAKES IT TO STARZ By David Hinckley
 
 
Like its older sister Outlander, Starz’s new drama The Rook doesn’t parlay a supernatural premise into a supernatural show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
28
THE CREEPY THRILLER, 'THE CHOSEN ONE,' STARTS STREAMING ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
With so many hours to fill, television eventually gets around to almost every contemporary issue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
23
VISIT THE BEAUTY OF A NATIONAL PARK WITH 'YELLOWSTONE LIVE' By David Hinckley
 
 
National Geographic returns Sunday doing what National Geographic has always done better than almost anyone: capturing the breathtaking beauty of the natural world and the creatures who live in it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
20
SEASON 2 OF 'RIVIERA' ARRIVES ON SUNDANCE NOW By David Hinckley
 
 
Given how far Riviera spilled over the top in its first season, it’s no surprise that Season 2 feels an apparent urge to go further...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'
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