DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2015
Oct
19
 
 

One of the best bits to date from CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be repeated Tuesday: Kevin Spacey’s literally poetic salute to Carol Burnett. And I recently got the whole behind-the-scenes story, from both Burnett and Spacey themselves…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
30
 
 

It’s official: The best TV Christmas special ever made is being turned into a series of holiday postage stamps, and you can preorder them now. Should you? Good grief, yes!...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 

Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal’s new TV series isn’t a sitcom – it’s a travel and food show. But it’s funnier than most sitcoms, and just might contain the secret to world peace…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
22
 
 

ABC’s The Muppets, which launches Tuesday night at 8 ET, is the best new show of the fall season – and the best Muppet show since the syndicated The Muppet Show in 1976….

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
20
 
 

There were lots of happy winners at Sunday’s Emmy Awards, but perhaps none happier than HBO, which ended the evening with top honors for two first-time winners: Veep as best comedy, and Game of Thrones as best drama…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
18
 
 

The 2015 fall TV season is just around the corner – starting officially on Monday. And to prepare you for when the new shows premiere, and which to watch or avoid, our TVWW team has, once again, provided an informative and entertaining primer…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
11
 
 

Well, that didn’t take long. Stephen Colbert revealing his true self and conducting an impressive, important interview as the new host of CBS’s Late Show? Three days in, Colbert did it – with his questions, empathy, and patient silence – while interviewing Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
9
 
 

To open and close his inaugural Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, the host sang: “The Star-Spangled Banner” to kick things off, and, with a stage full of musical guests, “Everyday People” to wrap things up. It was a Sly opening-night move…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
7
 
 

The Civil War, the brilliant Ken Burns series presented by PBS in 1990, returns this week, in restored and enhanced condition, for its silver anniversary. Race, as America’s central defining and dividing issue, has never left…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
31
 
 
Former American Idol contestant Todrick Hall, now going only by his first name, takes viewers behind the scenes of the makings of his notably popular YouTube music video mini-epics...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

David Bianculli

Founder / Editor

David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

 
 
 
 

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