Having turned Cleveland into a championship city after a 52-year drought, LeBron James now goes about the business of building up downtrodden neighborhoods...

2016

Aug

AN APPRECIATION: STEVEN HILL 1922 - 2016 By David Hinckley

Steven Hill, who became well known as District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order, but whose acting career was guided even more by his religious faith, died Tuesday (8/23) in Monsey, N.Y....

2016

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THE ASTONISHING TRUE TALE OF THE 'PIN KINGS' By David Hinckley

Pin Kings, the story of two high school wrestling buddies is one of those documentaries you wouldn’t believe if it hadn’t actually happened...

2016

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HAMMY AND HAM-HANDED: NBC’S GEEZER-CENTRIC ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER’ By Ed Bark

“All the world’s a stage,” a dude named William Shakespeare famously wrote. But The Bard surely wouldn’t have envisioned or countenanced NBC’s depositing of Henry Winkler, William Shatner, George Foreman and Terry Bradshaw in Tokyo for “an adventure for all ages.”...

2016

Aug

LEBRON JAMES KEEPS ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOCAL WITH 'CLEVELAND HUSTLES' By David Hinckley

In case you hadn’t noticed, LeBron James is working hard to be a lot more than just the guy who somehow stopped the Golden State Warriors and finally gave Cleveland another pro sports championship...

2016

Aug

KEEPING IT 100: THE REAL REASON 'THE NIGHTLY SHOW WITH LARRY WILMORE' WAS CANCELLED By Alex Strachan

There’s a rule of thumb in network executive suites that any TV program can survive low ratings, if there’s a potential upside. What no TV program can survive, though, is a consistent pattern of deteriorating ratings...

2016

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SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE OLYMPICS: NBC'S COVERAGE WASN'T ENTIRELY MEDAL-WORTHY By David Hinckley

After 16 days and approximately 482,394 hours of Olympics coverage on several thousand platforms, I have to say this about NBC and the Summer Games: More was less...

2016

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JON VOIGHT TAKES HALLMARK FOR A DIFFERENT RIDE By David Hinckley

You might think Jon Voight’s patriarch character in a Hallmark movie would be several galaxies removed from the patriarch he plays in Showtime’s dark drama Ray Donovan...

2016

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'THE SYNDICATE: ALL OR NOTHING' MAY BE THE CLOSEST YOU'LL GET TO 'DOWNTON ABBEY' By David Hinckley

The Syndicate: All Or Nothing, a 2015 BBC One series has one of the strongest claims yet to kinship with the late lamented Downton Abbey...

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HER EYEBROW, THAT’S WHO By Eric Gould

TVWW is generally (and scrupulously) apolitical, but given this election season, it’s hard not to have a little fun with Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen...

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