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

 
 
 
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 

Friday, on the exact 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, NBC’s Tom Brokaw asks Where Were You? That same day, on NPR’s Fresh Air, I give my answer…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
17
 
 
The actual ending to AMC’s Breaking Bad was among the most satisfying in TV history. But now there’s an “official” alternate ending, alluding to the finest TV finale of all…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
31
 
 

The Returned, which Sundance Channel launches in the U.S. on Halloween night, is a creepy, eerie, hauntingly memorable miniseries. But you’ll have to trust me on that…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
18
 
 

Only a handful of Stephen Poliakoff’s British TV dramas have been shown in the U.S., but I’ve seen four wonderful ones. This weekend, Starz imports a fifth…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
13
 
 
AMC’s The Walking Dead returns for its new season without a deadly warlord to oppose – but with plenty of drama just in existing, day to day, after the zombie apocalypse…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
13
 
 
Last week, the impending defection to the new firm created some unexpected allies, as Alicia (Julianna Margulies) found a sudden, crucial influx of funds provided by her own mother (Stockard Channing). This week, Will (Josh Charles) learns of Alicia’s plans – and he, too, reacts unexpectedly.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
2
 
 
First Vince Gilligan won an Outstanding Drama Series for Breaking Bad. Then he ended his series, brilliantly. And to complete his terrific trifecta, he made a wild appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
27
 
 
One of my favorite outspoken Hollywood celebrities, Tim Robbins, is the top-of-show interview guest tonight, so get ready for anything...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
22
 
 
The eagerness of Sunday’s Emmy Awards show writers to embrace TV’s hottest and hippest was apparent early… But the Emmy voters themselves were far more resistant... until, that is, the very end...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
22
 
 

Very little about the premise of NBC’s Blacklist, which has a canny career criminal ominously advising a young female profiler, is original – but that doesn’t mean it isn’t good. Because it is…

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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