If you imagine life in the Middle Ages was short, ugly and brutish, there’s a corner of television today that doesn’t portray it much differently. Take the return of Prison Break on Fox at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday...

2017

Apr

THE FUN UNDEAD RETURN ON ‘IZOMBIE’ By David Hinckley

Once upon a time, the undead on iZombie were just misunderstood. Now someone wants to kill them. That may sound a little weird, the undead already being dead and all...

2017

Apr

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MASS SHOOTING AT SANDY HOOK IS ADDRESSED ON PBS’ ‘NEWTOWN’ By David Hinckley

When Kim Snyder decided to make a documentary on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., she didn’t want simply to plunge back into the darkness...

2017

Apr

PBS’S ‘HOME FIRES’ IS BEING EXTINGUISHED AFTER THIS SEASON By David Hinckley

The only bad thing about PBS’s Home Fires is that, alas, its second season will be its last...

2017

Apr

THE NUNS FROM ‘CALL THE MIDWIFE’ RETURN TO A NEW BOSS By David Hinckley

The delivery of babies remains a constant on PBS’s Call the Midwife, but almost everything else in the show’s world keeps changing as we move to Season 6 and the early 1960s...

2017

Mar

ABC'S 'IMAGINARY MARY' FEATURES CUTE, CUDDLY BUZZKILL By David Hinckley

Costarring with a toon has only worked a few times in the history of filmed entertainment, like for Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly and Bob Hoskins and that’s kind of it...

2017

Mar

HULU'S 'HARLOTS' IS A SOBER REVEAL OF THE 18TH CENTURY SEX TRADE By David Hinckley

Harlots, which launches Wednesday (3/29) on the streaming service Hulu, is a British period drama quite unlike anything most viewers would expect or would ever have seen...

2017

Mar

WITH ‘DEAD RECKONING…,’ PBS SHINES A LIGHT ON ATTEMPTS TO PROSECUTE WAR CRIMINALS By David Hinckley

Back in the 1960s, the Firesign Theater comedy troupe did a short bit in which a German accused of Nazi war crimes is tracked down in Argentina and swears he knew nothing about anything. “During der war,” he says in an exaggerated German accent, “I was a gaucho on the Pampas.”...

2017

Mar

WITH THE AIRING OF THE SERIES FINALE OF ‘BONES,’ AN APPRECIATION OF BONES AND THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS HER By David Hinckley

Before her show is interred, let’s say a few kind words about Bones...

2017

Mar

‘JACK TAYLOR’ IS ANOTHER WINNING IMPORT FOR ACORN TV By David Hinckley

Iain Glen may have had some trouble winning Lady Mary and Daenerys Targaryen, but he scores a big win as a restless Irish private eye on the Acorn-imported series Jack Taylor...

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