The tragic turn in the life of the late Teddy Pendergrass has, for some reason, rarely had the resonance of tragedies that befell other popular singers...

2019

Feb

'PEN15' TAKES A CANDID AND VERY ADULT COMEDIC LOOK AT ADOLESCENCE By David Hinckley

Hulu’s new series Pen15 calls to mind the old line about how comedy is when someone else slips on a banana peel and tragedy is when you slip on a banana peel...

2019

Feb

FINDING HOPE AFTER TRAGEDY IN 'SONG OF PARKLAND' ON HBO By David Hinckley

Among the far too many American schools that have been scarred by gun violence over the last few years, the loudest cry arose from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla...

2019

Feb

THE STORY OF 'SOUL TRAIN' FINALLY ARRIVES WITH 'AMERICAN SOUL' ON BET By David Hinckley

Viewers of the ‘70s music show Soul Train never ran out of things at which to poke fun – starting with Don Cornelius’s lapels, which were about a city block wide. But viewers kept viewing because Soul Train also delivered something more important...

2019

Feb

ON PBS, THOSE WHO BUY, SELL, AND REPRODUCE 'BLACK MEMORABILIA' By David Hinckley

It’s no reflection on Chico Colvard that he’s better at raising the issue of racist memorabilia than at resolving it...

2019

Feb

AMAZON PRIME OFFERS ANOTHER BINGE-WORTHY SHOW WITH 'THE ABC MURDERS' By David Hinckley

There’s nothing fancy about The ABC Murders, which arrives Friday on Amazon Prime. It’s just a bloody good murder mystery...

2019

Feb

'RUSSIAN DOLL' WITH NATASHA LYONNE DEBUTS ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley

Natasha Lyonne is fun to watch. She looks fetching in Lucille Ball’s hair...

2019

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PBS’S 'INDEPENDENT LENS' GOES ON THE ROAD IN SEARCH OF THE KING By David Hinckley

It’s going to take more than one road trip to sort out the legacy of Elvis Presley. Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The King, which premieres Monday proves that point almost inadvertently...

2019

Jan

HBO'S 'DEADLINE ARTISTS' PROFILES OLD-SCHOOL COLUMNISTS By David Hinckley

The decline of print newspapers has cost us, among many other things, a unique subspecies: the New York tabloid columnist...

2019

Jan

'I AM THE NIGHT' IS AN ENGROSSING MYSTERY By David Hinckley

TNT’s shadowy crime drama I Am the Night approaches a familiar piece of film turf – the infamous 1947 Black Dahlia murder case in Los Angeles – from a different direction...

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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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