I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a juror at the Banff World Media Festival, and you….

I'm trying to accept the idea that there's a different definition of what matters now. The rating for James Corden at 12:30 at night doesn't matter a….

Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In othe….

I'm such an old fart that I started buying books on film and TV and radio and music when, for television, the entire shelf of books was only a couple….

Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and you can go through the history of childre….

When Nick At Nite is showing George Lopez, it's not doing what I'm thinking. But yes, I even write in the book about how MeTV went to Vince Gilligan ….

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impres….

I keep writing books about why TV is good. There's nothing more fun to me than steering people toward something that I really loved that I think they….

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that goo….

I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make the argument then. Now it seems absolutely a ….

I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only….

The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it was a completely diffe….