CNBC’s Ground Zero Rising: Freedom vs. Fear, one of the first documentary specials on the 15^th anniversary of September 11, starts to ask the right questions...

2016

Aug

AYA CASH SAYS 'YOU'RE THE WORST' IS IN THERAPY By David Hinckley

Okay, Aya Cash agrees, clinical depression isn’t the classic raw material for television comedy. But then last season the funniest thing happened to Gretchen Cutler, Cash’s character on the FXX comedy You’re the Worst: She outed her clinical depression and the show got better...

2016

Aug

EVEN THOUGH "LIMITED," 'THE NIGHT OF' SHOULD RETURN By David Hinckley

HBO did one of two things Sunday with The Night Of: It either played us for suckers or set us up for another spin on a great thrill ride...

2016

Aug

FIND OUT WHY EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT 'THE NIGHT OF' By David Hinckley

If you only had time to watch one new show this summer and you picked HBO’s The Night Of, you made the right call...

2016

Aug

AMAZON’S ‘THE KICKS’ OFFERS MESSAGES FOR THE KIDS AND HUMOR FOR THE ADULTS By David Hinckley

Amazon’s new drama The Kicks is cool enough for kids and reassuring enough for their parents...

2016

Aug

JOSEPH SIKORA ON TOMMY EGAN'S 'POWER' By David Hinckley

It’s a dark-humor gag in television that “diversity” means casting a black actor as the incongruous best friend of the lead actor in an otherwise all-white world. In that sense, Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan is the flip side...

2016

Aug

AN APPRECIATION: STEVEN HILL 1922 - 2016 By David Hinckley

Steven Hill, who became well known as District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order, but whose acting career was guided even more by his religious faith, died Tuesday (8/23) in Monsey, N.Y....

2016

Aug

THE ASTONISHING TRUE TALE OF THE 'PIN KINGS' By David Hinckley

Pin Kings, the story of two high school wrestling buddies is one of those documentaries you wouldn’t believe if it hadn’t actually happened...

2016

Aug

LEBRON JAMES KEEPS ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOCAL WITH 'CLEVELAND HUSTLES' By David Hinckley

In case you hadn’t noticed, LeBron James is working hard to be a lot more than just the guy who somehow stopped the Golden State Warriors and finally gave Cleveland another pro sports championship...

2016

Aug

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE OLYMPICS: NBC'S COVERAGE WASN'T ENTIRELY MEDAL-WORTHY By David Hinckley

After 16 days and approximately 482,394 hours of Olympics coverage on several thousand platforms, I have to say this about NBC and the Summer Games: More was less...

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