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

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Jun
10
 
 
The news of Anthony Bourdain’s untimely and shocking loss continues to reverberate. Unhappily. Here is Anderson Cooper’s moving remembrance of the tastes and insight that he gained over numerous interviews with the writer, chef and television documentary host...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
8
 
 
The shock, surprise, and sorrow continue to flood across the internet today, June 8th, the day it was reported Anthony Bourdain was found dead of a suicide in France...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
13
 
 
Critical praise is high for Benedict Cumberbatch on the premiere of his new Showtime series, Patrick Melrose... turns out, he’s a good sport, instantly game in this clip from a 2015 episode of The Graham Norton Show where Norton posted pictures from a popular meme playing on Cumberbatch’s assumed resemblance to otters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
7
 
 
FX has announced that the vampire satire film What We Do in the Shadows, co-written and starring the always witty Jermaine Clement  (Flight of the Conchords) has been adapted for a 10-episode season starting in Spring 2019... the mockumentary-style comedy follows what happens when three vampires have been roommates for hundreds of years…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
22
 
 
It’s not news on the level of rapper Kendrick Lamar, the surprising 2018 Pulitzer Prize recipient, but Jerry Saltz, New York art critic and former co-host of Bravo's Work of Art (2010-11) is also a 2018 winner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
15
 
 

SNL returned to musical satire last night (Saturday, April 15), with this operetta based on a man (Pete Davidson) who dares to order the lobster at a diner. You know, ‘cause it’s a diner. And no one ever orders orders the seafood. The lobster (Kenan Thompson) shellfishly laments his fate in the style of Les Miserables.

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
10
 
 
Seth Meyers' monologs are always good, but last night’s Late Night opening (Monday, April 9) was hard to beat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
8
 
 
The accolades have been appropriately coming this week on the passing of Steven Bochco (1943 – 2018), producer and creator of two series– Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue – that changed the tone of broadcast and cable dramas to came after them... in this clip, Bochco reveals the conflicts amongst cast and producers of Hill Street Blues and how he perservered...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
22
 
 
This isn’t an SNL sketch, but a straight news interview that could easily pass for one...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
16
 
 
Marking the second year of his passing, HBO will premiere The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling on March 28...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Eric Gould

Associate Editor

Eric Gould is a writer in Boston and Associate Editor for tvworthwatching.com. With prior stints in art, music, photography and design, he casts a wide net across the media pool fishing for the smart, the surprising and the oddly compelling. He will have essays on Rectify, Six Feet Under and Girls in the upcoming “Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series” from Syracuse University Press. Email him at gould@tvworthwatching.com

 
 
 
 

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