It’s almost as if the Vikings wanted to drive archeologists and historians nuts. Starting more than a thousand years ago, they sailed all over the known world and then found a few worlds that hadn’t been known, at least to Europeans...

2016

Apr

'THE WALKING DEAD' FAN COMMUNITY HITS BACK HARD By David Hinckley

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Spoiler alert! If you haven’t seen the Season 6 finale of The Walking Dead, you may not want to read on.] This may sound unkind, but watching millions of impassioned Walking Dead fans plunge into a collective state of Stage 4 apoplexy has been as much fun as the show itself...

2016

Apr

'A PLACE TO CALL HOME' REINVENTS ITSELF FOR SEASON 3 ON ACORN By David Hinckley

A few wishful references to the contrary, the 1950s Australian drama A Place to Call Home won’t make heartbroken fans forget Downton Abbey. But it’s worth watching all on its own...

2016

Apr

DROLL BRIT COMEDY THAT FINDS HUMOR IN METAL DETECTING RETURNS TO ACORN By David Hinckley

The Detectorists achieves that rarest of all television distinctions: It’s not like anything else on the air. It’s a British comedy about two middle-aged guys whose passion is metal detecting. How often can you ever say that about a TV show?...

2016

Apr

MORGAN FREEMAN TRACES 'STORY OF GOD' IN MANY FAITHS By David Hinckley

You could look at The Story of God With Morgan Freeman as a sequel to The Bucket List. Smashing up expensive racing cars with Jack Nicholson is fun and all that, but what happens, you know, next?...

2016

Apr

IT TAKES A LAUGH TRACK TO GET THE HUMOR IN NETFLIX'S 'THE RANCH' By David Hinckley

When they trace the impressive ascent of Netflix into the mainstream of original television productions, The Ranch will not be a major milestone...

2016

Mar

CBS REFITS 'RUSH HOUR' INTO AN AMUSING SITCOM By David Hinckley

The television incarnation of Rush Hour, like the hit film, gives us just as much cop story as it needs to tie the laughs together...

2016

Mar

'EMPIRE' THINKING BIG, INCLUDING A DEATH OR TWO -- MAYBE By David Hinckley

Fox’s lavish music biz soap Empire isn’t thinking small when it returns at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday for the second half of its second season...

2016

Mar

'SECRETS' ON PBS EXPLORES THE POSSIBILITY THERE WAS TRULY AN ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ By David Hinckley

Given that romanticizing outlaws has always been one of America’s favorite guilty pleasures, a lot of folks would love to think that three inmates really did escape from Alcatraz prison in June 1962...

2016

Mar

'GRANTCHESTER' WISTFULLY MIXES LOVE AND MURDER MYSTERY By David Hinckley

Grantchester, which returns Sunday for its second season, reminds us how PBS’s Masterpiece Theater earned its reputation. Just because every show doesn’t have the intangible magic of the late lamented Downton Abbey doesn’t mean a Grantchester, charmingly set in the 1950s, isn’t well worth the time...

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