DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

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TOM BRINKMOELLER

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2010
Mar
24
 
 
Robert Culp might well be the poster boy for not knowing what we've got till it's gone. His blend of relaxed amiability, authority, smarts and relaxed wit have rarely been matched on TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
24
 
 
The god of special effects blesses us Friday night. Ray Harryhausen inspired generations of movie makers with his stop-motion mastery from the 1950s to the 1980s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
23
 
 
[Bianculli here: Last year, I attended a conference at St. Vincent College's Fred Rogers Center, and reported on it for TV WORTH WATCHING, where plans were made to carry on the vision and children's TV commitment of Fred Rogers. Yesterday, when worthy recipients were given scholarships to pursue their modern visions of children's entertainment and education, I was at Rowan University teaching -- but contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller pursued the results on his own, and has this encouraging news flash...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
22
 
 
On Showtime tonight, two engrossing TV characters return who are struggling to keep themselves together: Edie Falco as the pill-popping "Nurse Jackie", and Toni Collette as the woman with several distinct personalities in "The United States of Tara". Both shows are wonderful -- and if both Collette and Falco aren't competing this fall for Best Actress Emmys, something's awfully wrong somewhere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
22
 
 
Mad music, mad design, mad remake -- this is one mad week on TV DVD...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
19
 
 
The opening, pre-credits sequence of Sunday's third-season premiere of AMC's "Breaking Bad" is a wordless marvel. It begins with a shot of a beautiful landscape, then pans down to reveal one man crawling. Then another, then many more, like human ants following some invisible, humbling trail. Where? Why?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
18
 
 
Discovery Channel's previous major co-production with the BBC, 2006's Planet Earth, was a fabulous nature miniseries, presenting astounding visuals and intelligent, illuminating narration in every installment. The networks' newest collaboration, a 10-part series called Life, is just as satisfying... but only in the visual sense...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
17
 
 
[Bianculli here: Contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller follows a lot of public TV and informational cable TV shows. And when some of them began disappearing from his television set, he decided to keep following them, and find out where they went and why...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
13
 
 
Executive producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman did a great job dramatizing the European battles of WWII in 2001's "Band of Brothers". Now, nine years later, they've reteamed for another HBO miniseries, to do the same thing for "The Pacific" -- and it's just as good. Maybe even better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
11
 
 
How cool is this? (Answer: Very.) Fan and critic pressure, for once, has carried the day: NBC has announced that, due to popular demand, Betty White WILL host Saturday Night Live...