A TV columnist and pop culture writer, Hiltbrand has worked as a critic at People and as a columnist and editor at TV Guide. Despite being romantically challenged, he has written for the soap operas All My Children and Guiding Light. Hiltbrand is the author of three mystery novels featuring Jim McNamara, the rock n’ roll detective. He has, God help him, seen every episode of American Idol. His column "Dave on Demand" appears every Saturday in The Inquirer.
In TV's constantly shifting landscape, there was one thing you could always count on: NBC owned the antipodes.
For decades, the America day started with Today and ended with Tonight. NBC was the house that Dave Garroway and Jack Paar built.
- 'Hannibal' arrives on NBC
- Globe-trotting journalist adds 'sports reporter' to her resume
- Later, Leno: Fallon to host 'Tonight' in 2014
A critic who never warmed to the AMC show has a change of heart with Sunday's season premiere - "beautiful, provocative, and deep."
This is what passes for a crisis in the lives of TV critics: Each year about this time (well, except for the terrible Mad Men drought of 2011 - about which the less said the better), they're sent a disc with the first few hours of the new Mad Men season.
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