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

 
 
 
 
 
2019
Jul
29
 
 
TV has always been fond of sketch comedy. It's gone from Sid Caesar and Milton Berle to The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live. It's had the full range of people, as long as your range consists primarily of white males...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
28
 
 

For MASTERPIECE fans, waiting for the new vicar on Grantchester is like waiting for Halley's Comet or a Cubs pennant. It takes patience, but yes, it's worth it...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
25
 
 
Imagine a baseball team shedding superstars. Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle all retire ... just as the manager is told to play more games with more people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
The science fiction universe has been bombarded lately with news, and that includes some for Trekkies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
At times, the calendar can be our friend. That's the case with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
10
 
 
This isn't your usual TV-comedy turf. There's no supersized apartment, no super-fun job, no expectations. Florida Girls has four women sharing a messy home and a messy life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
7
 
 
As moon-landing films fill our screens, something becomes clear – the world has changed profoundly in the past 50 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
7
 
 
As the 1980s began, movie moguls were still in their '60s/'70s haze. Perplexed by the new generation, they'd written big checks to "auteurs" – directors who looked and sounded hip and artful. Then Heaven's Gate happened...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
4
 
 
Singer/Songwriter Colbie Caillat seems to have this pop star thing backward...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
30
 
 
He had the loudest voice, the bulkiest body, the most relentless mind. It shouldn't surprise us, then, that Roger Ailes dominated television, then dominated American life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Mike Hughes

Mike Hughes remembers watching a TV show in which a man simply played records. He thinks TV is much better now. With Gannett News Service, his television stories went to 100 newspapers; with TV America, they go to considerably fewer, but he still seems happy. Read more at www.mikehughes.tv 
 
 
 
 

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