He wasn’t the best television president, but George H.W. Bush had his share of memorable TV moments that will live on, making him a significant player in the history of governing through television...

2018

Nov

ALL YOU NEED IS ART By Eric Gould

It’s the 50th (gulp) anniversary of the eponymous The Beatles album (aka The White Album) released in November 1968, and to mark the occasion the company has released two new videos to coincide with a special re-release of the record...

2018

Sep

THERE WILL BE DAD By Eric Gould

SNL returned for its 44th season Saturday night with Adam Driver hosting and starring in this sketch based on Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2008 drama, “There Will Be Blood."...

2018

Sep

PICTURE YOURSELF NEAR A TRAIN IN A STATION By Eric Gould

The impromptu surprise appearances by Paul McCartney are starting to pile up... this one on the occasion of the release of his new album “Egypt Station,” reports had the show not exactly public, held behind blackout curtains for invited guests. So, the rest of us would have only heard McCartney on our way to Yonkers unless we dialed it up live on YouTube...

2018

Aug

ARTIST INTERRUPTED: PBS DOCUMENTARY ON EVA HESSE EXPLORES A BRILLIANT CAREER CUT SHORT By Eric Gould

You might expect a biopic of an important artist to include the breakthrough, various evolutions... their legacy. Some of those ingredients are there, but not all, in the upcoming American Masters film Artists Flight: Eva Hesse...

2018

Aug

TAKE ON MANAFORT By Eric Gould

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert kick’s it 80s-style with this look at what happens when courtroom illustrations from the Paul Manafort tax fraud trial come to life via the original sketch-romance from the “Take On Me”...

2018

Jul

FORGET ‘THE WALKING DEAD,’ THE WALKING GEARS MIGHT BE TV’S NEXT WAVE By Eric Gould

AMC might have seen the future, and it might be in the adult drama between us and our androids, rather than in zombie body counts...

2018

Jul

PRANKS FOR THE MEMORIES By Eric Gould

Clips from the new Sacha Baron Cohen comedy half-hour Who is America? have been released today, (Sunday, July 15) the day of its Showtime premiere. In this clip, Cohen (in heavy prosthetic makeup) plays anti-terrorist expert, Erran Morad, whose mission is to arm Israeli children as young as four years old...

2018

Jul

KID ZEPPELIN By Eric Gould

This video of Japanese child drum prodigy Yoyoka Soma languished on Youtube since it was posted in January, but finally picked up steam last week after appearing in the Huffington Post. It’s now clocking almost one million hits... Robert Plant, like the rest of us, is all smiles...

2018

Jun

LET JAMES TAKE YOU DOWN By Eric Gould

Paul McCartney has had a long history of notable surprise public performances...

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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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