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

 
 
 
 
 
2012
May
17
 
 

The final piece of the 2012 fall TV puzzle has fallen in place. The CW’s plans for the new season include three new fall dramas, changes on every night of the schedule, and a midseason prequel to Sex and the City, featuring a younger Carrie Bradshaw…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
CBS's plans for the fall 2012 TV season include moving Two and a Half Men and The Mentalist to new nights, and introducing four new series: three dramas, and one comedy. Once again, we offer first impressions, and first available video samples...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
15
 
 
ABC has presented its plans for the 2012-13 TV season. For the fall quarter, five new series are being introduced: three dramas, two sitcoms. Once again, we offer first impressions, and first tastes of video samples…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
14
 
 
Fox was secure enough to announce only three new series for fall — one drama, two comedies. We have first-glimpse videos of all three, including the new series starring, and created by, Mindy Kaling of NBC’s The Office…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
14
 
 
As the networks release their schedules for the 2012-13 TV season, we'll collect them here — so you can return, as need be, to make sense of things and plan your upcoming viewing schedule.vAlthough, to be honest, time slots aren't as critical as they were in the old days. But finding the good shows quickly — that's even more important, and tricky, than ever...we aim to help...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
14
 
 
CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson takes a wonderfully unpredictable tour of Ferguson’s home country of Scotland. Here's a fast photo-tour of Monday's show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
13
 
 
Later this month, on May 22, it’ll be 20 years since Johnny Carson said farewell as the longest and greatest host of NBC’s Tonight Show. As an early salute, Monday’s American Masters on PBS presents a two-hour profile, and appreciation, of the Great Carsoni…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
13
 
 
NBC announced Monday its projected schedule for the fall 2012 TV season. We offer quick, bite-sized video samples of the network’s new offerings, along with our own very first impressions. There looks to be at least one winner here…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
10
 
 
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross turns 25 years old this week. The long-running Philadelphia show’s first national broadcast was May 11, 1987. I feel both proud and old to say I was a part of that maiden voyage, providing a piece on the finale of NBC’s Hill Street Blues…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
9
 
 
That big sigh of relief you hear is from everyone at American Idol, who get to proceed to the end of this year’s music-competition finish line, from tonight on, without having to compete for attention with NBC’s The Voice.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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