DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
This documentary shows, by example, how you can take someone with no discernible talent and, simply by promoting them through various means on various social media, turn them into arguable, low-level celebrities. It worked before the Internet (see: Paris Hilton), but now it's an actual business. Several of them, actually, as Fake Famous will show. Kids: Don’t try this at home.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
This is the show’s annual Super Bowl pre-game analysis – and with what’s bound to be a career-long look at rival QBs Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes of the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, it should prove a perfect primer, and setup, for Sunday’s Super Bowl.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
So you’d think, when the evil, white-slavery-ring-running sheriff was shot square in the forehead, that would be the end of him, leaving the two female protagonists to band together to find his still-at-large accomplice. But apparently not. In tonight’s episode, he emerges from his coma, at the same time this series wanders off into something less like Big Sky and more like Big Joke, with the sheriff as a sort of uniformed, unkillable Jason from Friday the 13
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
This new Frontline documentary takes a deep dive into the probable and possible origins and spread of COVID-19 – and it’s frightening enough without the ominous music on the soundtrack, which makes China’s COVID Secrets feel like a nonfiction horror movie. It stars with SARS, which surfaced in China in 2002, spread worldwide, and resulted in some 800 before it was identified and contained. In December 2019, another deadly strain was identified (that’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Borat called it the Wuhan flu. A certain national leader kept referring to it as "the China virus." And news headlines of late have been describing the hoops the World Health Organization is having to jump through...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Some TV detectives – you know who you are – are bulls in the china shop, getting information and solving crimes by a sheer show of power...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Today, on the day that Hal Holbrook’s Jan. 23 death at age 95 was revealed, PBS held a video press conference for Hemingway, the latest film by Ken Burns and company. I asked Burns to comment on Holbrook, who was the key ingredient in his fabulous 2001 documentary about another seminal American writer, Mark Twain…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
Almost from the start of the worldwide COVID-19 crisis, China has become an international virus football. China's role and culpability, or lack of it, has been kicked every which way, often depending on the agenda of the kicker...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
 
 
On this day in 2003, ABC introduced producer Dick Wolf's remake of the classic cop series, Dragnet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
1
 
 
On this day in 1982, NBC introduced Late Night with David Letterman...