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

 
 
2009
Aug
10
 
 
We reported last month that both Ally McBeal and It's Garry Shandling's Show were finally coming to DVD in complete series sets. We had an Oct. 20 release date for Shandling then, and now Ally has a firm street date, too -- Oct. 6...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
10
 
 
Because there's just not enough scary disaster on TV (unless you count pretty much every episode of Maury), cable is following up Discovery Channel's just-concluded Shark Week with The Weather Channel's current Hurricane Week: Extreme Impact...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
10
 
 
The corrected proofs are due today for my Smothers Brothers book -- the last phase of production before the book heads to the printer. So I'm taking the day off from the blog, to finish proofreading the final chapters. First you write the book, then you have to read it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
7
 
 
[Bianculli here: Contributing TV critic Tom Brinkmoeller is a long-time Julia Child fan, so he approached the new Julie & Julia movie with a grain of salt (and pepper). Turns out he enjoyed it a lot -- but savors the real Julia Child, and her TV legacy, even more...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
6
 
 
When USA Network premiered "Monk" in 2002, the program was so unexpectedly delightful, many critics asked what it was doing on basic cable when it was good enough to be on broadcast network TV. Seven years later, as "Monk" begins its final season, no one asks that question any longer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
4
 
 
Last weekend in Pasadena, critics, producers and stars convened to share the love in what was billed, accurately, as the 25th anniversary of the Television Critics Association Awards. The little-known, little-remembered fact, though, is that two years before the first TCA Awards, there was the one and only TCA Award...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
3
 
 
Bianculli here: The Television Critics Association celebrated the 25th anniversary of its TCA Awards presentation this weekend in Pasadena, and two of our contributing writers were there to file reports. I was there only in spirit, but remain emotionally invested...Today, we hear from Diane Holloway and Bill Brioux on such deserving winners as Bryan Cranston, Jim Parsons, Betty White, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men and True Blood...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Aug
2
 
 
Craig Ferguson knows the way to a critic's artery-choked heart is through his stomach. The CBS Late Late Show host has been sending pizza to critics on press tour for our semi-annual business meetings ever since he hosted the TCA Awards show a few years ago...