Last year, when I was completing my first year as a full-time faculty member at New Jersey's Rowan University, I also was crashing on the final month of writing my Smothers Brothers book, so I passed on attending, and participating in, what would have been my first graduation ceremony as an associate professor...Friday, with the book done and published and the school year over again, I happily attended -- and was so glad I did...

2010

May

FOR "24" AND ITS FINAL HOUR, IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO KILL JACK BAUER By David Bianculli

In two weeks, we'll be saying goodbye to the Fox series 24, and to Kiefer Sutherland's character of Jack Bauer, who's had a memorable string of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days. The real-time clock on 24 is running out -- and so is the chance for the series to deliver one last, shocking, legendary twist...

2010

May

STUDENT BLOG #5: ROLLING WITH THE UPS AND DOWNS OF "GREY'S ANATOMY" By David Bianculli

Once a term, I try to discover a student with enough obvious writing and critical ability to give him or her a shot at writing a guest column about TV -- and give us a chance to see things from a younger generation's perspective. Today, Rowan University junior Eve Patzlaff evaluates the shifting effectiveness of a long-time favorite. Please welcome her...

2010

May

KENT STATE, 40 YEARS LATER -- A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE By David Bianculli

Forty years ago today, the National Guard fired into a distant crowd of student protesters at Ohio's Kent State University, killing four students. As a TV critic and scholar, I've been quoted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer about one media-related aspect of the tragedy -- but back in 1970, at age 16, I relayed by thoughts via the media also -- delivering a controversial editorial for my high school's closed-circuit TV system...

2010

May

TOM FONTANA REUNITES "OZ" CAST, RAISES MONEY FOR WGAE By David Bianculli

In a one-day-only, two-performances benefit staging for Writers Foundation East, a giggling gaggle of cast members from Tom Fontana's groundbreaking HBO drama series Oz reunited in New York yesterday, for a comedic, playfully homoerotic, revenge-fantasy comedy of Fontana's unproduced The Godfather Part IV. What a riot -- and what a shame it wasn't filmed for HBO, or as the funniest DVD Extra of all time...

2010

Apr

SO LONG, BILL MOYERS: TELEVISION WILL BE POORER WITHOUT YOU By David Bianculli

Friday night, the host of "Bill Moyers' Journal" presents an expanded 90-minute edition of his superb program, then says goodbye -- putting a self-imposed end to a stellar TV career that began 40 years ago. It's safe to say, given Moyers' reliable excellence and the qualitative demise of most network news and public affairs shows, we're unlikely to see his equal again...

2010

Apr

ACTOR JOE PANTOLIANO BECOMES A DIRECTOR, AND CHAMPIONS COMPASSION FOR "MENTAL DIS-EASE," IN NEW DOCUMENTARY By David Bianculli

Beginning today, Amazon has begun offering exclusive distribution of a new documentary by Joe Pantoliano...But this time, as writer-producer-director of "No Kidding?!! Me, Too!", the performer known as Joey Pants isn't hiding behind a role. He's being as honest as he can, about his personal battles with depression and other forms of what he calls "mental dis-ease,"...

2010

Apr

"GLEE" AND "LOST": TWO OF TV'S MOST INVENTIVE, ORIGINAL SERIES ARE MUST-SEE TONIGHT By David Bianculli

Two of television's most exciting, inventive and original broadcast network series right now, Fox's "Glee' and ABC's "Lost", present can't-miss episodes tonight. Unfortunately, they're on at the same time, so a little time-shifting is required. But see them both, by all means...

2010

Apr

SPEAKING AND WATCHING AT THE BEA: MY WEEKEND IN VEGAS By David Bianculli

This weekend capped the latest frenzied round of what passes for my life, with a presentation about my book at the Broadcast Education Association convention in Las Vegas. But what I was most excited about at the convention was the King Foundation Awards show, which selected and honored the best student and faculty productions in various media categories...

2010

Apr

SINGING THE PRAISES OF FOX'S "GLEE": IT'S BACK, AND EVEN MORE DELIGHTFUL By David Bianculli

When last we saw the musical misfits of Fox's "Glee", they had won the Sectionals, the first step in becoming state champs for their singing glee club. Well, after a few months off, they return tonight, basking in their newfound glory -- for about 10 seconds. Then, once again, the reality and cruelty of high school sets in...

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