DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

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TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2016
Jan
17
 
 
Two bravura performances for the most part overcome the sometimes convoluted, other times confusing goings-on in Showtime’s Billions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
17
 
 
ABC’s Police Squad! did it first with a lamentably short-lived, Leslie Nielsen-starring spoof of all those deadly serious cop dramas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
16
 
 

Well-meaning but oh so somber, Mercy Street is a rare, born-in-the USA drama for a network that has relied on the British for almost everything in this genre. It’s a Code Black of the Civil War era...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
14
 
 
Earth never comes out ahead in the future. At least not in television dramas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
11
 
 
A few words on Sunday night’s Golden Globes -- all of them printable in this case.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
7
 
 
Via the miracle of a remote control button push, viewers can segue Thursday night from a glam Jennifer Lopez as an American Idol judge to a battered, weepy one in the opening scene of NBC’s Shades of Blue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
6
 
 
Cable network series, particularly dramas, were seriously challenged to measure up to the broadcast network counterparts. Now it’s a rarity when old-line networks equal or exceed the best that cable or streamers have been pouring out in abundance. ABC's Season 2 of American Crime is an exception to those new rules...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
4
 
 
HBO’s recent The Jinx and Neflix’s current Making a Murderer are both kindred spirits and polar opposites in the non-fiction, “true crime” genre...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
3
 
 
Dear Abbey: First and foremost, you have given splendid service, providing PBS with a badly needed big Moby of a show since first gracing these shores in January 2011...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
3
 
 
Amid copious alcohol consumption and “jobs” that add up to less than nothing, three misfit male roommates sort of strive to make something of themselves...