DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2011
Dec
25
 
 
Merry Christmas, and happy holidays, to all. I don't try to get my hopes up too much when I stagger downstairs on Christmas morning to see what's waiting for me under the tree. But does it have to be the same damn cat that's been living here for 114 years, and refuses to die, and thinks of the tree as some halfway house between being indoors where it's warm and outdoors where she can kill things?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
24
 
 
Happy holidays! I just received a great gift from one of our faithful and generous TV WORTH WATCHING readers -- and thought I'd share it with you, along with another well-timed holiday bonus. First, sent along by TVWW reader Sanford Sklansky, is Darlene Love's first Christmas appearance on David Letterman's show, way back on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman in 1986...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
23
 
 
I should have put this in tonight's Best Bets, but it deserves its own special place anyway. Tonight (Friday, Dec. 23) on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, it's the 2011 edition of Letterman's always wonderful, tradition-filled Christmas show. Darlene Love, once again, will sing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," Jay Thomas will tell his Lone Ranger story and, with Letterman, try and knock a giant meatball off the top of a Christmas tree...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
23
 
 
Yes, children, it's Christmas, and time once again to gather 'round the flat panel display and join in the holiday cheer as privileged hipsters receive luxury cars as surprise presents... this year's version of the decade-long series of Lexus holiday commercials that feature the lucky, the well-to-do and the model-beautiful as they get what naturally comes to them -- high-end automobiles decorated with over-sized bows...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
23
 
 
Doctor Who Christmas invasion has begun, and that's just some of the juiciest holiday fun airing over the weekend. While you can always click to our complete holiday listings, look below for a quicker take on our seasonal Best Bets...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
23
 
 
Ready for some new holiday TV listings? We've just added more shows, among them Spongebob Squarepants, Rugrats, Ugly Betty and Veronica's Closet. And those folks lucky enough to receive Me-TV can settle in for holidays with Mister Magoo, The Beverly Hillbillies, Dobie Gillis, Daniel Boone, Eliot Ness, Mary Tyler Moore and more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
22
 
 
At this time of year, we're surrounded by music, images and stories of the holidays -- but not necessarily the best ones. So here at TV WORTH WATCHING, as accompaniment or to complement the days ahead, we have the latest recommendations. TVWW managing editor Diane Werts has the very latest on televised holiday movies and TV episodes. TVWW contributor Noel Holston has a story of Christmas gift-giving that's right up there with The Gift of the Magi -- but Noel's story is true...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
21
 
 
I've been fielding a lot of emails and comments since Tuesday's Fresh Air with Terry Gross appearance, when I talked with Terry about the best and worst, and other issues, involving TV. Many of you have asked how I could leave a specific series off my Top 10, and even my Top 20. Fair questions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
21
 
 
New among our hundreds of Christmas listings -- Scrubs, House, Monk, Little House on the Prairie and many more! And we're still scanning station schedules to make sure we find all your TV faves, so please keep checking back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Dec
21
 
 
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a partridge. In a pear tree. Really. This was a few years back, when we were still courting. But I'm reminded of her generosity and creativity every year about this time...