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
Nov
2
 
 

[EDITOR'S NOTE: TVWW contributor Noel Holston is the author of Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery, a memoir to be published Nov. 5 by Skyhorse.]

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
11
 
 

Weird. It's like we're all watching Back to the Future in a huge movie theater and a third of the audience is pulling for Biff. Feeling mischievous and snarky, I posted that analogy on Facebook not long ago...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
2
 
 
The closed captioning of television programs is of course a great boon to the deaf and hearing impaired, a true godsend, right? Well, not quite. Take it from a deaf viewer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
18
 
 
The White House's budget proposal cuts Corporation for Public Broadcasting... but maybe give them the money and let the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard have a week-long pledge drive every year on PBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
1
 
 
The first time I met Grant Tinker, on my wide-eyed first TV critics press tour way back in 1973, I wanted to be him. I mean, c'mon. He looked like the distinguished gentleman in the Hathaway shirt magazine ads and he was married to Mary Tyler Moore...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
15
 
 

James Arness’s Gunsmoke marshal, Matt Dillon, made his first appearance on television in 1955. So did Hugh O’Brien’s dandified Wyatt Earp...But only one of these iconic TV characters’ chronological contemporaries is still with us and, amazingly, still getting work. That would be Kermit the Frog...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
7
 
 
Almost 40 million people saw at least part of The Civil War when Ken Burns’ multipart documentary premiered in September 1990...It’s coming back Monday, September 7, for a special anniversary encore on PBS. Two things will be different...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
21
 
 
Contrary to his atomic-fireball TV persona, the Morton Downey Jr. I knew was a pussycat. A pussycat o’nine tails sometimes, but a pussycat all the same...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
10
 
 
Liberals who have American flags (a larger contingent than our more conservative fellow citizens typically acknowledge) are likely flying them at half-mast to mark the retirement from Comedy Central of Jon Stewart...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
13
 
 
The news hit hard – and then the irony. Bob Simon, the decorated journalist and 60 Minutes mainstay, was dead, killed in an automobile crash Wednesday in New York City. Simon had survived as many war zones and hot spots in his 47-year career as any reporter alive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Noel Holston

Noel Holston wrote about TV, radio and popular culture for the Orlando Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Newsday before going to grow wine bottles near Athens, GA.
 
 
 
 

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