Well, I can't begin to tell you how much work is behind us, and how much looms ahead this weekend. But we're close enough for me to announce to you, and dare us here at TV WORTH WATCHING, that we hope to have the long-promised website relaunch up and running by Monday morning...

2010

Aug

GREAT NEW DVD RELEASES: CLEAR EYES, CRAFTY KILLERS, FLYING SQUIRRELS By David Bianculli

This week's batch of new releases of TV shows on DVD includes an absurdly entertaining triple helping of great shows, and the range couldn't be more eclectic. Coincidentally, they're all Season Four releases - of NBC/DirecTV's Friday Night Lights, Showtime's Dexter, and the classic Rocky & Bullwinkle adventures...

2010

Aug

WITH "THE BIG C," SHOWTIME PRESENTS ANOTHER GREAT ACTRESS -- BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TIME, NOT ANOTHER GREAT SHOW By David Bianculli

The addition of "The Big C" to Showtime's lineup (10:30 p.m. ET Monday) brings Laura Linney, a fabulous actress, to a network already boasting several excellent shows in which they star: Edie Falco in "Nurse Jackie", Toni Collette in "The United States of Tara", Mary-Louise Parker in "Weeds". But while Linney belongs in that august company, "The Big C" does not...

2010

Aug

"MAX HEADROOM" FINALLY ARRIVES ON HOME VIDEO -- 25 YEARS INTO ITS FUTURE By David Bianculli

When Max Headroom first hit the media landscape in 1985, it was with a two-pronged assault: a music-video series in which the "computer-generated" titular character introduced and often ridiculed the hot acts of the day, and a live-action sci-fi movie explaining the "origin" of Max Headroom...

2010

Aug

THE NEW TV SEASON: ON BROADCAST TV, NOT MUCH FRESH TV WORTH WATCHING By David Bianculli

Next month -- by which time this site will be in its newly redesigned incarnation -- we'll roll out a fall preview feature in which all our critics can weigh in on the new broadcast slate. Meanwhile, a handful of critics, myself included, were interviewed by Broadcasting & Cable for a sneak preview. The general consensus: Fall 2010, for broadcast TV, presents a disappointingly ho-hum roster of new shows...

2010

Aug

NEWS FROM THE 2010 SUMMER TCA PRESS TOUR -- FROM SOME FAVORITE COLLEAGUES By David Bianculli

I'm not at this summer's Television Critics Association press tour, but already, the tour has generated news in both an unexpected executive shift and in the annual awards bestowed upon TV shows and talent by the TCA itself. So today I'm steering TV WORTH WATCHING readers towards reports from the tour by two veteran writers and, I'm proud to say, members of this website's still-widening roster...

2010

Jul

WATCH AMC'S "RUBICON" -- AND WATCH IT CLOSELY! By David Bianculli

Since AMC got into the one-hour drama series business, it's made one masterpiece after another. One was Mad Men, the other was Breaking Bad, and both are still on the air. Starting Sunday night at 8 ET, they're joined by a third new series, a modern-day spy thriller called Rubicon. Is it another TV triumph? Too early to tell. A TV show that should be watched? Most definitely...

2010

Jul

AMC'S "MAD MEN" RETURNS, STARTING WITH FOUR BRILLIANTLY WEIGHTED WORDS By David Bianculli

Sunday's season premiere of AMC's period drama series Mad Men begins with Jon Hamm's Don Draper being interviewed by a reporter for a trade journal, who asks Don an innocuous puffball question as preparation of a profile about the successful advertising-agency executive. But because of what we know about Don's past -- and what most people around him DON'T know -- that puffball turns into a potential hand grenade...

2010

Jul

BURT REYNOLDS SHOULD BE A RECURRING CHARACTER ON USA'S "BURN NOTICE" By David Bianculli

Thursday night at 9 ET on USA's Burn Notice, Burt Reynolds guest stars as a retired spy targeted by a Russian hit squad. Michael and his crew come to the rescue -- in a crisp TV "buddy movie" so delightful, it all but demands a string of sequels...

2010

Jul

LETTER FROM THE TVWW MAILBAG -- ONE CONTRIBUTOR WRITES A READER ABOUT... ME? By David Bianculli

Bianculli here: It's getting nuts around here. First Eric Gould writes a column about a Lady Gaga video. Then I write an open column, addressed to Eric, challenging him to review three more videos, and selecting them for him as a dare. Then one of our readers writes in, good-naturedly questioning my psychological stability...

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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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