DAVID BIANCULLI
Founder / Editor
ERIC GOULD
Associate Editor
LINDA DONOVAN
Assistant Editor
DAVID HINCKLEY
ED BARK
ALEX STRACHAN
MIKE HUGHES
ED MARTIN
KIM AKASS
MONIQUE NAZARETH
BILL BRIOUX
ROGER CATLIN
GARY EDGERTON
TOM BRINKMOELLER
GERALD JORDAN
NOEL HOLSTON
TVWW ARCHIVE
NBC celebrates 40 years of Saturday Night Live with a massive live TV special Sunday. It arrives seven months early, but it’s indeed something to celebrate – especially for me…
To date, TV Worth Watching has actively backed only one Kickstarter campaign – LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow revival. Now there’s another: a long-simmering documentary on Kurt Vonnegut…
Better Call Saul, AMC’s prequel series to its brilliant Breaking Bad, arrives Sunday and Monday with a two-part premiere. Like its mother ship, it’s a ride you owe it to yourself to take…
Saturday night at 9 ET, HBO presents Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen, which is his third TV special for the network, but the first one in his entire career where he’s doing standup. So why now, at age 88?...
PASADENA, CA – Sunday’s FX portion of the Television Critics Association press tour was top-tier all the way: Billy Crystal, Louis C.K. and Denis Leary all showed up, touting their respective impressive FX series…
PASADENA, CA – Chuck Lorre is about to lose one sitcom on CBS, with the imminent departure of Two and a Half Men. But that still leaves him with three – and Thursday, the prolific comedy creator was honored with an all-star, all-shows salute…
PASADENA, CA – As traditional networks clamor for attention at the 2015 Winter Television Critics Association press tour, Amazon has stolen the spotlight with three attention-demanding, attending-deserving moves…
PASADENA, CA – James Corden, 36, appointed the next host of CBS’s The Late Late Show, appeared Monday for his inaugural Television Critics Association press conference – and made a strong first impression…
PASADENA, CA – AMC’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour was highlighted by salutes to its first, and next, hot TV series: Mad Men and Better Call Saul…
PASADENA, CA – Seven years ago, Tim Robbins appeared before the National Association of Broadcasters, begging them to do better, more meaningful work. Now he’s on HBO, walking the walk as part of the team presenting The Brink…
David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.
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