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

 
 
 
 
 
2008
Jan
4
 
 
The final season of HBO's amazing drama series, "The Wire," begins Sunday night at 9 ET. It's the weekend's best bet, for sure. I've seen seven of the final 10 hours, and I've done what I can to spread the word that this is the sort of series TV WORTH WATCHING is all about...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jan
3
 
 
The broadcast network talk shows returned in full force last night - CBS's David Letterman and Craig Fergsuon with writers, and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel and NBC's Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien without them. What, and how, did they do their first nights back?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jan
2
 
 
Because of the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, here are a few things we won't be seeing this month that we otherwise would have: the start of a new season of "24" on Fox, the beginning of a second story arc on NBC's "Heroes," and two or three months' worth of fresh episodes of most everything else, including such freshman standouts as ABC's "Pushing Daisies"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jan
1
 
 
Just before the close of business yesterday, when everyone was gone or desperate to go to celebrate New Year's Eve, CBS sent out an email announcing David Letterman's "Late Show" guests for January 2, his return show with writing staff intact. Happy days are here again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
31
 
 
There have been times, compiling my annual 10 Best list of TV series, that I've had to be very generous just to fill out the roster. Not this year. For 2007, I could double that amount, and still leave some worthy shows waiting in the wings. Think that's an exaggeration, or that I've gone soft?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
29
 
 
By mere coincidence, the writers' strike and TV WORTH WATCHING began the exact same day, on November 5. For more than a month, I wrote every single day - and every single day, they didn't. Beginning December 15, I decided to stop writing new blogs on weekends...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
28
 
 
I've been ranking the year's best TV for more than 30 years now, and haven't seen this happen before. But here it is: The best TV series of the year, and the best commercial of the year, come from (and star) the same person...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
27
 
 
There's always a risk compiling this list with a few days left in the year - one major New Year's Eve gaffe could throw off the entire ranking - but barring some last-minute blunders, here are my three favorite live TV mistakes of 2007...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
26
 
 
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, CBS presents the 30th installment of an annual ceremony that, for every one of those three decades, has provided some of the most entertaining and inspiring television of the preceding calendar year: "The Kennedy Center Honors." It's so classy a show, CBS buries it between Christmas and New Year's Day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2007
Dec
24
 
 
In my book "Teleliteracy," I warned that when broadcast TV as we knew it ceased to draw a large enough audience on a regular basis, there would be, for the first time, no new mass medium to take its place. Just lots of fragmented audiences, watching things on tape and computers and other things without ever again enjoying that national shared experience than defined half a century of television. I may have been wrong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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