I’m not likening the end of TVWW’s 14-year run to the end of life as we knew it… Where daily newspapers and magazines were once the nexus of TV criticism, it seems fair to say this is another reminder that a torch is passing...

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'EXTINCTION: THE FACTS' IS A SOBERING CALL TO ACTION By David Hinckley

The only thing more ominous and depressing than a PBS program titled Extinction is its content...

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SEASON 2 OF 'CITY ON A HILL' RETURNS WITH KEVIN BACON, ALDIS HODGE, AND BOSTON CORRUPTION By David Hinckley

Things are not going well for Jackie Rohr, and that's bad news for everyone. Because when things are going bad for Jackie, his solution is to make them bad for everyone else, too...

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THE STRENGTH AND DRIVING FORCE OF A MUSIC ICON: 'TINA' By David Hinckley

And so a TV week that began with a series on Aretha Franklin wraps up with a documentary on Tina Turner. It must force-of-nature week on cable television...

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OLD FRIENDS, NEW MURDER: 'THE GLOAMING' By David Hinckley

A person who wakes up every morning thanking the Lord for escaping a childhood hometown is forced, suddenly, by circumstance to return. It's the plot that launches a thousand Hallmark movies every December...

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EXAMINING THE 'GENIUS: ARETHA FRANKLIN' ON NAT GEO By David Hinckley

Nat Geo's exhaustive biopic on Aretha Franklin suggests it may have been more fun to listen to the Queen of Soul than to be the Queen of Soul...

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'THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER' WILL BE A MARVEL FAN FAVORITE By David Hinckley

Lest any viewer thinks Marvel's new TV series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, will follow WandaVision and start with a crazy if delightful detour into a whole different world, it doesn't...

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A LITTLE STAR-STUDDED HORROR WITH 'CALLS' By David Hinckley

You won't see a stranger use of television this year than the new Apple TV+ series Calls, whose ten episodes begin streaming Friday...

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THE 'MAYANS M.C.' HAVE RETURNED By David Hinckley

The Mayans are back. Nobody’s happy and several people who were alive at the beginning of the first return episode are dead at the end. Clearly some things were not changed by the pandemic...

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THE HIT POLICE THRILLER FROM IRELAND, 'BLOODLANDS,' HAS ARRIVED ON U.S. SHORES WITH ACORN By David Hinckley

As U.S. networks and streaming services troll the world for programming to fill their COVID-induced void, some of the shows they reel in are inevitably better than others...

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

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