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

 
 
 
 
 
2013
Oct
4
 
 
Documentary footage of the outspoken heavyweight is layered with a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court, back when the champ refused to answer the draft...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
29
 
 
Even with temperatures reaching nearly 100 degrees in some places, the indisputable fact is that autumn is here. How so? College football season means that autumn is here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Dec
15
 
 
College football reached the tipping point on bowls a few years ago. It’s now ridiculous, and it’s not just the funny names. It’s the numbing number of bowls...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
Television producers are introducing audiences to the fact that a growing segment of the U.S. population is multiracial families...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
26
 
 
Last Resort is a delicious serving of 21st century righteous indignation, with Andre Braugher as an outraged sub commander with nukes at his disposal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
26
 
 
Elementary, the latest incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective Sherlock Holmes, has enough potential to move the needle to wow...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
27
 
 
The network that has broadcast the summer Olympics since 1988 is about to launch an ambitious plan to show every event in the upcoming London Olympic Games in real time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
18
 
 
Even though the setting is inescapably familiar, with a few stock-character church ladies thrown in for good measure, TV Land's Hot in Cleveland spin-off, The Soul Man, shows promise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
30
 
 
Jesse Owens was a flawed hero whose record-setting exploits in track took him to the 1936 Olympics, yet still did not shield him from racism. On Tuesday, PBS's American Experience tells his story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
6
 
 
This is holy week. Notice the lower case spelling: that's because it's holy week for golf...executives at ESPN and CBS are praying that millions flock to their TV sets over the next three days to witness golf's greatest show, The Masters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Gerald Jordan

Gerald B. Jordan is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. Earlier in his career, he was a respected, unusually well-dressed TV critic for the Kansas City Star.
 
 
 
 

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