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
Jun
19
 
 

Betty White starred in her first live TV series at age 30. She was 91 when, Wednesday night on TV Land, she and her costars went live for a special Hot in Cleveland…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
16
 
 
Betty White and the rest of her TV Land Hot in Cleveland cohorts resume their fourth season Wednesday with a special live episode. For White, it won’t be the first time…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
2
 
 
Jean Stapleton, who played the better half to TV’s most significant icon as Edith Bunker on CBS’s All in the Family, has died at age 90, her family has confirmed…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
26
 
 

I’ve just completed a 15-episode Arrested Development binge on its return opening day on Netflix — and wow, was it worth it. It’s as hilarious as it is ingenious…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
23
 
 

More than just camp, and anything but dismissive, HBO’s new Behind the Candelabra telemovie takes Liberace seriously — and asks us to do the same…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
20
 
 

Hilarious Hollywood hyphenate Mel Brooks is the subject of a new American Masters profile tonight at 9 ET on PBS — and earlier today, he’s also my guest on Fresh Air…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
 
 

Last to announce, as usual, the CW has unveiled its plans for the fall 2013 TV season — renewing most of its new shows from last year, and adding three more…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
 
 

CBS is making its fall 2013 moves from a comfortably tall perch. It’s No. 1 in both overall and demographically desirable viewers, and is reacting accordingly…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
14
 
 
If you count desperation by the number of new series a network introduces for fall, ABC is the winner this year in that particular category. It has eight new shows on tap…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
14
 
 
My kids grew up devouring this series, which began on Showtime from 1982, the year my daughter, Kristin, was born. Her brother, Mark, followed in 1984, and by the time Faerie Tale Theatre was over in 1987, both of them could quote from entire episodes verbatim...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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