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 of them. You go into the '70s before you start… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make the argument… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history,… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a juror at… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
