With the final Downton Abbey countdown under way, it’s time to extend a little sympathy to PBS for facing this season’s TV mission impossible: replacing the most popular show in network history...

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Nov

'GOTHAM' WRAPS MIDSEASON WITH MIXED RESULTS By David Hinckley

Fox’s Gotham, which underwent major surgery for its second season, wraps up the first half of that season Monday night at 8, and the results are mixed...

2015

Nov

NOW HERE’S A BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ANDREA BOCELLI VS. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN By David Hinckley

Okay, they’re not actually battling. But by coincidence, they both have TV specials airing at 9 p.m. ET Friday night...

2015

Nov

TURKEY DAY GOES TO THE DOGS By David Hinckley

Let’s make this simple. It’s time to join 25 million other Americans and add cute dogs to your Thanksgiving Day TV menu. The National Dog Show airs on NBC, right after the Macy’s parade and it’s the perfect appetizer before our long national overdose of turkey and football...

2015

Nov

PBS PRESENTS 'PILGRIMS' WITHOUT THE DOCUDRAMA GARNISH By David Hinckley

TV viewers are getting two extensive productions this week on the British colonists who landed in 1620, and while both tell much the same basic story, they couldn’t differ more in style, temperature or conclusion...

2015

Nov

NAT GEO TELLS THE REST OF THE THANKSGIVING STORY IN NATIVE TONGUE By David Hinckley

You might not think you need a four-hour National Geographic miniseries to understand the first Thanksgiving. What more is there to know? All we’ve really done since then is add a football game, right? Well, maybe not...

2015

Nov

'HIGH CASTLE' WEIGHS THE HIGH STAKES OF LOSING WWII By David Hinckley

One of the many things Amazon’s new The Man in the High Castle does well is to refresh our perspective on freedom...

2015

Nov

WHY ‘THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER’ FAILED AND WHY WE EVEN NOTICE By David Hinckley

In a move that caused virtually no ripple at all in the TV biz, FX cancelled The Bastard Executioner this week...

2015

Nov

NETFLIX GOES TO THE DARK SIDE WITH MARVEL'S 'JESSICA JONES' By David Hinckley

Melissa Rosenberg, who created Netflix’s intense new Jessica Jones series, doesn’t see why white guys should be the only ones who get to enjoy a world of constant danger, unrelenting darkness and haunted self-doubt...

2015

Nov

'THE ART OF MORE': GREED IS STILL GOOD By David Hinckley

The new Crackle drama is set on the dark side of high-end auction house andrevives the notion – as if it ever died – that greed is good...

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