DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2014
Jun
14
 
 

The final episode of NBC’s Believe airs Sunday… unless you believe. That series, and its inspirational young heroine, are the object of a rescue mission by another famous heroine: Belle, from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
2
 
 

PITTSBURGH, PA – LeVar Burton, with his current Kickstarter campaign to revive Reading Rainbow, is doing more than rebooting that brilliant children’s literacy series for a new generation, though that would be plenty. He’s also rebooting the spirit of Fred Rogers…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
28
 
 

Two installments of CNN’s new ambitious documentary series The Sixties have been televised already, as anniversary-timed previews of the JFK assassination and the British invasion. Starting Thursday, you can, and should, see the rest…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
23
 
 

HBO’s new, reworked version of AIDS activist Larry Kramer’s 1985 play, The Normal Heart, is adapted by Kramer himself, and has a different, less strident tone. It has to…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
15
 
 

This won’t take long: CW was so satisfied with its lineup from last year that it’s introducing only two new series for fall – both of them dramas…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
14
 
 

CBS, for the 2014 fall season, presents four new dramas and one new comedy. But, like Fox, it now says it’s not really in the “fall season” business at all, but on a 12-month cycle…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
14
 
 

For the fall 2014 TV season, ABC is presenting four new sitcoms and one new drama – with several other shows on tap for midseason…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
13
 
 

Fox announced its plans Monday for the 2014-15 TV season, and beyond. Focusing on the fall 2014 announcements, the good news is that most of its new shows may be…good...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
12
 
 

Once again this year, TVWW offers quick, bite-sized video samples of the new fall TV offerings, along with our own very first impressions. We start with NBC…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
9
 
 

Two new TV programs this weekend revisit and reinterpret classics in the horror genre. One is well worth the effort, and worth watching. The other is, well, horrible…

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

David Bianculli

Founder / Editor

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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