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

 
 
 
 
 
2016
Jun
19
 
 
This new Blu-Ray release will not be the final word on the classic Star Trek series this year, since September marks the original show’s golden anniversary... A few months from now, Paramount/CBS is scheduled to issue a mega-box set, including not only the 79 episodes from the classic Star Trek series that are here on Blu-Ray, but also the Star Trek movies featuring the original TV show cast members...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
13
 
 

Monday on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I review the new CBS series BrainDead, which I like a lot. But here on TVWW, I offer a special mini-interview with that show’s creators…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
19
 
 

Last fall, CW introduced only one new fall series, and it was among the season’s very best: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This fall, that show is back – and so is another entertaining show, picked up from a different network…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
18
 
 

CBS is sending Supergirl up, up and away to sister network CW this fall, and adding three new dramas and three new comedies before the year is out. Most have a strong whiff of the familiar…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
18
 
 

Last year, ABC had what seemed like the most promising new show of the season – but The Muppets never gelled, and now it’s gone. Yet despite a tepid new lineup, ABC once again has one promising new show… but this year, will promises be fulfilled?

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
17
 
 
Richard Boone starred in three major TV series in the 1950s and 1960s, and all of them were noteworthy and unusual. Medic (1054-56) was one of TV’s first medical series, and The Richard Boone Show (1963-64) was a bold experiment, a repertory company anthology show, decades ahead of the likes of American Horror Story. And in between those two series, from 1957-63, was CBS’s Have Gun – Will Travel, a moody, moral, menacing Western...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
 
 

For the coming season, Fox, for the first time in many years without American Idol, is continuing its strategy of backloading the season…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
16
 
 

The first two networks revealing their plans for the fall 2016 share an autumnal austerity. NBC, like Fox, is unveiling markedly few new series for this fall. Three, to be exact…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
18
 
 

This is the first blog I’ve written for TVWW this year – because I just finished the rough manuscript on my next book, due to be published in November by Doubleday. And I need your help, because it needs a new subtitle…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
8
 
 
When my daughter, Kristin, was very young, one of the first (and then only) things we let her watch on TV was PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, because it was so positive, safe, and lovingly interactive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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