Ovation’s Raiders of the Lost Art doesn’t always deliver exactly what it seems to promise. As an intro course to the history of great artists, it delivers even more...

2016

May

PBS' 'WALLANDER' COMES TO A SATISFYING END By David Hinckley

Our final visit from melancholy Swedish detective Kurt Wallander proves slightly unsettling. In a good way. Sort of...

2016

May

ERNIE HUDSON: ENJOYING THE ACTOR'S LIFE By David Hinckley

Ernie Hudson took a long and winding road to become Lily Tomlin’s boyfriend in Grace and Frankie. An interesting road. Inspirational. Not easy. It could also describe the acting profession in which he has spent his life...

2016

May

JOAN BAEZ AND FRIENDS CELEBRATE HER 75TH BIRTHDAY ON ‘GREAT PERFORMANCES’ By David Hinckley

Joan Baez gets taken for granted sometimes, and her new birthday concert on PBS’s Great Performances reminds us why that should not happen...

2016

May

'GRACE AND FRANKIE' RETURNS WITH A JOLT, SOME PERSONAL GROWTH, AND LAUGHS By David Hinckley

It’s a very different pair of dames we meet when the second season of the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie drops its 13 episodes Friday (5/6). This year, for starters, Grace and Frankie like each other...

2016

May

OVATION’S 'MILLENNIALS': A VIDEO ALBUM OF THEIR PASSAGE THROUGH ADOLESCENCE INTO ADULTHOOD By David Hinckley

Ovation’s new documentary series Millennials provides both a scary and an honest look at growing up in the 21^st century...

2016

May

PBS REMEMBERS SINGER JANIS JOPLIN AS 'LITTLE GIRL BLUE' By David Hinckley

When Amy Berg started working on a documentary about the late Janis Joplin, one of the suggestions she heard was that Joplin was “the Judy Garland of rock.”

2016

May

RAGING AGAINST THE MACHINE: THE FINAL SEASON OF ‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ By David Hinckley

You can envision the team at CBS’s Person Of Interest pushing their chairs back from the table and saying, “Okay, our work is done here.”...

2016

May

TAKE 'HOUDINI & DOYLE' THEN ADD A PIONEER WOMAN DETECTIVE By David Hinckley

The most intriguing character in Fox’s new drama Houdini & Doyle turns out to be neither one. It’s a young woman named Adelaide Stratton...

2016

Apr

ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME HBO SPECIAL: TOO MANY HONOREES, TOO LITTLE SOLID GOLD By David Hinckley

The most poignant highlight of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame HBO special wasn’t part of this year’s induction night at all. It’s a clip of the late Prince at his own 2004 Hall of Fame induction, talking briefly about his music, and then playing lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”...

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