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

 
 
2010
Jul
14
 
 
Apparently someone -- in addition to Piers Morgan's agent, his family and Piers Morgan himself -- believes that this British star of America's Got Talent, our nation's favorite derivative reality competition series, needs a second career as the new host of CNN's Larry King Live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
13
 
 
The newest offering from the USA Network, a mostly lighthearted concoction called "Covert Affairs" and starring Piper Perabo as a fledgling CIA agent, couldn't be more well-timed, given the recent Russian spy swap and the inescapable images of young, sultry Anna Chapman. For that, and other reasons, it's TV worth watching -- but many other summer offerings are not...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
13
 
 
For somebody I had pretty much never heard of before, Matt Bomer instantly became one of my most anticipated TV sightings last year on White Collar. As soon as I saw this USA romp's slick and witty pilot, I was hooked, and not only because Bomer's such a looker. He's also supremely effective in a tough role -- his cop-helping con man is supposed to be an irresistible charmer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
12
 
 
The website upgrade is coming along great. Lots of progress on all fronts this weekend. Meanwhile, our website designer, Eric Gould, posted one wildly entertaining column, analyzing Lady Gaga's latest video. So I have a challenge for him, which I'm sharing with all of you...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
12
 
 
(New Jersey Monthly - by Tom Wilk) Like a journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step, the road to becoming a television critic starts with a solitary sentence. In David Bianculli’s case, it was an entry printed in his diary on December 3, 1960...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
9
 
 
Included and examined, in today's column, are all of four-and-a-half minutes of TV Worth Watching -- if not for the cultural temperature they take, but also for the mishmosh of mixed metaphors, missed metaphors, and random inanities they deliver...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
8
 
 
The nominations for the 2009 Emmy Awards, announced early Thursday morning, offered a few surprises, many of them pleasant -- including an in-your-face nomination for Conan O'Brien's version of NBC's "Tonight Show", while Jay Leno's version, also eligible, was snubbed in the variety category...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
7
 
 
With the Emmy nominations coming Thursday morning, I asked our TV WORTH WATCHING contributors to weigh in on the subject. And boy, did they, with a passion that explains why we all spend so much time watching, and writing about, television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
5
 
 
July's hottest movie event comes from an unlikely source -- the up-and-coming Ovation channel. As it's being launched on more cable systems around the country, Ovation has been heating things up with special festivals saluting great photographers, gay portrayals, and other arts/culture/design topics...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Jul
1
 
 
Our planned summer preview was sidetracked by work on our TV Worth Watching site redesign. But we'd like to play at least partial catch-up by highlighting a few key July dates when popular series return, new shows debut, and special events take place...