A decade after he left CBS News and resurfaced on AXS TV, Dan Rather acknowledges he’s playing a smaller room. The tradeoff, he says, is that “I’m doing some of my best work” – including The Big Interview...

2016

Feb

THE NEW ROM-COM MODEL OF 'LOVE' ON NETFLIX: IT'S COMPLICATED By David Hinckley

The 21^st century makeover of the rom-com continues with Love, a new Netflix series whose first 10 episodes drop Friday morning (2/19). Love stars Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs as Gus and Mickey, a potential couple...

2016

Feb

BLACK PANTHERS DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES CONFLICT AND PROGRESS, INSIDE AND OUT By David Hinckley

The Black Panthers saw themselves in the 1960s and ‘70s as a voice and a haven for the forgotten. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saw them as subversive terrorists...

2016

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'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 7: A CHANGE IS GONNA COME By David Hinckley

One of the oldest rules of the tabloid newspaper game is that “if it bleeds, it leads,” meaning a violent, bloody death automatically becomes the top story... But the death Sunday in the seventh episode of the final Downton Abbey season was not the big story...

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'BETTER CALL SAUL' AGAIN ASKS: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? By David Hinckley

Creator Vince Gilligan was determined from the start to give Better Call Saul a personality of its own and he has, even aside from its more deliberate pace and lighter tone...

2016

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'THE WALKING DEAD' RESURRECTS FOR SECOND HALF OF SEASON SIX By David Hinckley

There are many zombies, there’s a lot of action and it is not smart to mess with Daryl. Here’s hoping that isn’t too much of a spoiler for the herd of fans eagerly awaiting Sunday’s midseason return of The Walking Dead...

2016

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PBS PLAYS THE RIGHT NOTES IN BLUES GUITARIST B.B. KING'S BIO By David Hinckley

B.B. King would readily tell anyone who asked that he wasn’t the best blues musician of the 20^th century. What he wouldn’t say is that by the time he finished his career, he had become one of the century’s most important...

2016

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TERENCE WINTER: HIS NEW HBO SERIES 'VINYL' AND THE CHAOS OF THE '70S MUSIC SCENE By David Hinckley

"...A lot of what we’re writing about in this series is chaos,” Terence Winter says of his new series with HBO, Vinyl...

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IT'S A GOOD TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO 'THE GOOD WIFE' By David Hinckley

The now-imminent end of CBS’s critically adored and modestly rated The Good Wife raises again one of TV’s most awkward questions: Can a good series run too long? The answer is yes...

2016

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SAMANTHA BEE REVEALS HER PLANS TO GO 'FULL FRONTAL' By David Hinckley

The Daily Show has spun off another comic child: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, a weekly show that debuts Monday at 10:30 p.m. ET on TBS... It will build its comedy on real-life reported stories...

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