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
May
13
 
 

Fox announced its plans Monday for the 2013-14 TV season, and beyond. The biggest announcement: The return, a year from now, of a pared-down version of 24…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
13
 
 

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…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
13
 
 
As the networks release their schedules for the 2013-14 TV season, we'll collect them here, so you can plan your upcoming viewing schedule...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
10
 
 

Christopher Guest’s new comedy series for HBO, Family Tree, is a clever show with a secret weapon — a hand puppet. Hey, hey, it’s the monkey…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
2
 
 

The May ratings sweeps have begun, ushering in a bumper crop of season finales. The Good Wife, The Following and The Americans just presented theirs, with varying results…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Apr
20
 
 
Fifty years ago, 24-hour TV news was introduced when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This week in Boston, the nation witnessed something smaller, yet similar…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Apr
15
 
 

The Central Park Five, the newest Ken Burns documentary to hit PBS, addresses his familiar, favored themes of race and place. But this time, making the movie was a family affair…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
4
 
 
When half the power went out during Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII, the 34-minute interruption gave Craig Ferguson’s team the opportunity, and inspiration, to improvise a new cold open for that night’s post-game Late Late Show special…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
31
 
 
Kevin Spacey sure calls his shots well when playing a recurring character on series TV. The last time was 25 years ago, when he burst onto the scene as Mel Profitt on CBS’s Wiseguy. And now he’s back, in a show that’s a game-changer…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
21
 
 
Dominic Monaghan, who played the ill-fated Charlie Pace on ABC’s Lost, attacks a true change-of-Pace role in his newest TV effort, a nature documentary series for BBC America…
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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