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…

- David Bianculli

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…

- David Bianculli

"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…

- David Bianculli

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…

- David Bianculli

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…

- David Bianculli

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 …

- David Bianculli

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…

- David Bianculli

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 …

- David Bianculli

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…

- David Bianculli