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06/10/2025

Had a tremendous time moderating a panel w/Tony Gilroy, creator of Star Wars series Andor, w/writers Dan Gilroy, Beau Willimon, Tom Bissell. Their mandate: break new ground for the franchise w/"realistic..truth in a ripping yarn about revolution." WATCH:

ANDOR Creator/Executive Producer/Writer Tony Gilroy and Writers Tom Bissell, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willimon join NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans for a behind-the-s...

06/03/2025

As expected, the Trump administration has asked Congress to claw back the funding already allocated for public media for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. If enacted, it would remove $770 million for TV and radio stations across the country. DETAILS: https://loom.ly/hSUIHGk

05/30/2025

HBO's film Mountainhead joins a small flood of recent TV shows satirizing the rich: Sirens, Your Friends and Neighbors and the grandaddy of them all, The White Lotus. Here's why I hope Hollywood stops making them, or at least learns to make them differently:

Much as I love some rich people satires, like Sirens, Your Friends and Neighbors and Mountainhead, I hope Hollywood stops making them...or makes them differently

05/26/2025

Rather than spend holiday time watching middling movies, I urge you to consider catching up on cool TV shows you might have missed this spring. here's a quick Substack post on the cool stuff out there:

Rather than watch middling movies, consider catching up with cool TV series you might have missed this spring

05/20/2025

Check it...

What's a fan to do when corporate owners threaten a news outlet's journalistic independence?

05/09/2025

Days before she was fired by the Trump administration, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman (since the 1800s) and first African American to hold the job, spoke out about the danger of disappearing history and preserving Black history.

Just days before she was fired by President Trump, Carla Hayden - the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress - war...

05/09/2025

After a week watching media frenzy over President Trump's suggested tariffs on films "produced in Foreign Lands," I have a modest proposal: Journalists shouldn't create a flood of coverage centered on policy ideas that are little more than speculation.

Journalists should resist rampant speculation when it's not attached to a tangible policy

05/06/2025

The six best TV performances I've seen so far in 2025 happened on Severance, The Residence, The White Lotus and a few other shows. See when ones I picked in this NPR story, and feel free to let me know which ones you love. READ:

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 thus far, including Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, and Carrie C**n in The White Lotus.

04/09/2025

Words can't capture the fun in talking new PBS documentary We Want the Funk w/Parliament Funkadelic's George Clinton and Emmy winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson. Clinton tells how the Beatles inspired p-funk and what he'll say to aliens when they meet. READ:

"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His new Independent Lens documentary is out now.

04/04/2025

Honored to join a powerhouse panel by NYU at 4 p.m. today for a 20th anniversary discussion on Terri Schiavo, a Tampa Bay area woman in a vegetative state whose husband moved to end her life, sparking legal war w/her parents. Webinar is free here: https://loom.ly/TAHz25Y

03/31/2025

When I saw Nielsen figures on YouTube's superior viewing stats fueled by older people, I realized they were talking about me. Here's one of my weekly columns devoted to what that means for shows like After Midnight and Peaky Blinders, along w/reviews of Dying for S*x and The Bondsman. READ:

Plus, Kevin Bacon plays a bounty hunter in The Bondsman starting Thursday, and a new medical drama premieres on Netflix.