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

 
 
2019
Feb
5
 
 
Black Entertainment Television, longhand for BET, had its own Don Cornelius in Robert Johnson, who launched the network with his wife, Sheila, in 1980 and sold it to Viacom 20 years later for a reported $3 billion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
 
 
Chris Pine’s character regularly takes a beating, as does the overall believability of TNT’s ambitious but convoluted I Am the Night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
 
 
The lede is inspired. HBO’s Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists begins with visuals of New York subway passengers transfixed by their cell phones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
24
 
 
The annual Golden Globes awards recently came and went without a single win for one of the old line Big Four broadcast networks -- ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
20
 
 
Two-and-a-half years removed from a five-season run on Showtime’s House of Lies, Don Cheadle barely segues to another rapacious deal-closer in the network’s Black Monday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
16
 
 
You’ll make the grade in Syfy’s Deadly Class if you’re getting consistently high marks in AP Black Arts, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Poison Lab and Dart Workshop...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
The overriding – or more to the point, the only – reason to visit Roswell, New Mexico is its UFO phooey. Once is more than enough...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
14
 
 
A generation removed from Saved By the Bell, former teen heartthrob Mark-Paul Gosselaar, now 44, is acting with kids again. Actually, it’s just one kid. But what a kid...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
13
 
 
Although not a complete implosion, Season 2 of True Detective had serious structural damage compared to the foundation laid by the fictional whodunit’s acclaimed first edition...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
It’s been nearly half a century since CBS dared to launch one of television’s all-time milestones, All in the Family. The network’s Fam, is also something of a benchmark...