Political commentator John McLaughlin died yesterday, (Tuesday, August, 16) and many current political talk shows owe their popularity to the syndicated host...

2016

Aug

WHY WAS 'THE NIGHTLY SHOW WITH LARRY WILMORE' CANCELED? By David Hinckley

Frustrating as it is to see late-night television lose one of its few persons of color, Larry Wilmore’s termination by Comedy Central was pretty much inevitable...

2016

Aug

'MY LAST DAYS' SHARES THE SECRETS OF LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST By David Hinckley

Imminent death isn’t a great selling point for a TV show, but those who watch My Last Days will find that, in their own way, the subjects here are as inspiring as any Olympic gymnast or sprinter...

2016

Aug

'AGATHA RAISIN' IS A LIGHT, PLEASANT BRITISH COMEDY By David Hinckley

British comedy has always had two quite distinct faces: dry elegant wit from the likes of Noël Coward and slapstick from the Benny Hills...

2016

Aug

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN 'HOMELAND' RETURNS By David Hinckley

The next president of the United States, at least on the Showtime drama Homeland, will be a woman described as “a little Hillary Clinton, a little Donald Trump and a little Bernie Sanders.” Who knew it was that easy to bring America together?...

2016

Aug

OLYMPIC FAIL By Eric Gould

SNL has a long history of sports spoofs and this one from Andy Samberg was a javelin aimed at the then-upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics...

2016

Aug

NETFLIX GOES AT THE OLYMPICS WITH 'THE GET DOWN' By Ed Bark

The Summer Olympics are still building and drawing big audiences for NBC. So there’s been a respite from significant new program premieres -- unless you’re the entity that never sleeps...

2016

Aug

'THE GET DOWN' TELLS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MUSIC HISTORY By David Hinckley

A forest of popular music rose from the scorched earth of New York in the 1970s, and the new Netflix series The Get Down tracks the early growth of the tallest tree: hip-hop...

2016

Aug

NEW 'STAR TREK' WILL BOLDLY GO WHERE CBS HAS NOT GONE BEFORE By David Hinckley

A new Star Trek may not take the streaming service CBS All Access beyond infinity, but the network is confident it will help convince a nicely profitable number of viewers to shell out six dollars a month...

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