Mike Judge swung and missed with his reboot of his Beavis and Butthead in 2011, which may have been fortuitous, since it brought him to his new, winning HBO comedy...

2014

Mar

FROM CAMELOT TO POLYESTER: ‘MAD MEN’S LANDMARK CONTRIBUTION By Eric Gould

Mad Men soon returns for its final season in two weeks -- and maybe more interesting even than the saga of self-sabotaging Don Draper, the series may best be remembered as part of an American television evolution that saw enormous changes in what we watch, and how...

2014

Mar

GOING INSIDE COOL: ‘COOL SPACES’ TOURS NEW ARCHITECTURE By Eric Gould

Design and architecture often have been front and center on television over the past decade, due mostly to waves of popular home improvement shows... the new PBS Cool Spaces takes a lively look at new cutting-edge public buildings...

2014

Mar

NEXT GEN "PEANUTS" By Eric Gould

The Muppets are going gangbusters in this year’s Muppets Most Wanted, smartly led by Tina Fey in the starring non-Muppet role. It’s Charlie Brown’s turn in 2015 with the upcoming CGI animated big-screen Peanuts feature...

2014

Jan

THE STORY OF POISON, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT By Eric Gould

With police lab forensics as one of the pillars of nightly scripted TV, it’s hard to imagine a time when medical examiners didn’t rule the day...

2013

Dec

2013 – THE YEAR IN TV By Eric Gould

We had some unforgettable pictures cross our TV screens in 2013 that should burn on long after 2014 arrives...

2013

Dec

YOUTUBE, ME-TUBE By Eric Gould

The poet Charles Simic has a wonderful article on about finding even his most obscure childhood TV and film remembrances all readily available on YouTube with the click of a mouse... and I found a few of my own...

2013

Dec

GRIFFIN IS RISEN By Eric Gould

And they didn’t even wait for Easter... Fox's Family Guy put down its recent stunt storyline Sunday night...

2013

Dec

'THE RETURNED' NEARS SEASON'S END By Eric Gould

As more of its mystery comes to light, the French import continues its deep, elegiac tone and stands as one of the smartest and most satisfying shows of 2013...

2013

Dec

THE NEXT (BIG?) THING By Eric Gould

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a new show premiering January 18, 2014 on the upstart cable channel Pivot TV. Titled after his web project, the show HITRECORD ON TV is billed as a 30-minute variety show. But forget the Carol Burnett kind...

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Eric Gould

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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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