Its self-explanatory title notwithstanding, Nat Geo's new Lost On Everest ends up giving us a somewhat different story than its stars may have originally hoped...

2020

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'SOMMERDAHL MURDERS' REMINDS US THERE'S A REASON WHY COP SHOWS ARE POPULAR By David Hinckley

You'd think television might be running out of variations on the Troubled Cop. You'd be wrong...

2020

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'I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK' ON HBO TELLS THE STORY OF THE FAR REACHES OF EVIL By David Hinckley

Brace yourself if you want to watch I’ll Be Gone In the Dark...about the hunt for a California serial rapist and murderer. It’s a ride down 40 miles of bad road...

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THE SECRETS AND LIES OF 'BULLY. COWARD. VICTIM: THE STORY OF ROY COHN' By David Hinckley

Things people don't like about their lives are often explained by the theory that too much is controlled by a small, powerful elite that's only concerned with themselves and cares nothing for the rest of us...

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THE WEB OF DECEIT, BRIBERY, AND GREED IS BROUGHT TO LIGHT WITH 'OPIOIDS, INC.' ON PBS By David Hinckley

The COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily overshadowed what remains an even more lethal ongoing health crisis: the opioids epidemic that has claimed more than half a million lives in America since 1999...

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'PERRY MASON' IS AN EXCEPTIONAL FRESH TAKE ON AN OLD SHOW By David Hinckley

I’ve occasionally wondered whether TV writers take quietly impish delight in messing with the image of long-time pop culture icons...

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THE POWER OF 'MAE WEST: DIRTY BLONDE' By David Hinckley

Long ago and not so far away, in the dark ages before social media, Mae West was better known to Americans than Kim Kardashian is today. And she had a whole lot more to offer...

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'THE VIRUS: WHAT WENT WRONG?' EXPLAINS WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR By David Hinckley

A whole lot of folks, presumably, are almost as saturated with COVID-19 coverage on television as they are by the restrictions COVID-19 has laid on them in real life...

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'GRANTCHESTER' RETURNS TO PBS WITH SEASON 5 By David Hinckley

With the menu of fresh TV feeling slimmed-down these days, PBS is doubtless delighted to bring back a proven winner...

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BEAUTIFUL 'BEECHAM HOUSE' ARRIVES ON PBS By David Hinckley

Most period dramas set in India dwell at least in part on the suffocating effects of British colonial rule. Beecham House, ...to a certain extent, flips that scenario...

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