About the Authors
Brill Bundy
Brill Bundy watches a lot of TV. This stems from the fact that as a child her parents allowed her only three shows a week -- two of which were repeats of "Batman" and "The Banana Splits," with the third left open. Now, she binges daily. So, parents, if you don't want your children to grow up to be critics, let them watch what they want now.
Dan Fienberg
In the classic film "Videodrome," James Woods' character watches so much mind-altering television that his chest becomes a gaping VCR. The same thing happened to Daniel Fienberg last week and he didn't bat an eyelash. That's what happens when your every waking hour is dedicating covering either movies or television for the Internet's finest entertainment resource (that's Zap2it, if you were confused). Daniel has a Masters in Cinema Studies from USC, which is utterly useless when critiquing the collected film works of Rob Schneider and Keanu Reeves. He likes to tell people that he appreciates "The Wire," "House," "Veronica Mars" and other bastions of quality television, but he really prefers "American Idol" and any reality show in which desperate women compete to be professional football cheerleaders or Coyote Ugly bartenders.
Hanh Nguyen
After getting a bloody nose in her film debut in "Pray for Death" and her rather ignominious defeat during the Concession Olympics of '92, Hanh decided on a less performance-oriented approach to the entertainment world -- writing. With handy Creative Writing degree in hand, she moved from Texas to LA where she first worked as a faceless extra and then as an invisible publicist for a TV production company. She's been burning the candle at both ends for Zap2it since 2003.
Rick Porter
From his time as a youngster watching "Speed Buggy" and "Hong Kong Phooey," Rick Porter has been soaking up pop culture like a big, TV-addled sponge. He can describe in fairly good detail the theater where he first saw "Star Wars" at age 5 (the Dabel in Dayton, Ohio) and tell you where he was when O.J. led the cops on the Bronco chase (out to dinner with his family and girlfriend the night before he graduated from college). Heck, he's even co-written a book about all that stuff.
So it somehow seems right that he now gets to make his living watching television, even though he's about to age out of The CW's target demographic. Current favorites include most of what's on FX, "Deadwood," "Veronica Mars," "The Office" and YouTube.
About This Blog
Zap2it TV Talk
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- Denzel Washington jumps tracks from 'Unstoppable'
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- 'Thor' cast sunny for Natalie Portman
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Returning Shows
Shows We Recap
- 24
- 30 Rock
- 90210
- The Amazing Race
- America's Best Dance Crew
- America's Got Talent
- America's Next Top Model
- American Gladiators
- American Idol
- The Celebrity Apprentice
- Army Wives
- Award Show
- Baby Borrowers
- The Bachelor
- The Bachelor: London Calling
- The Bachelorette
- Battlestar Galactica
- Beauty and the Geek
- The Big Bang Theory
- Big Brother
- Big Shots
- The Biggest Loser
- The Biggest Loser: Couples
- The Biggest Loser: Families
- Bionic Woman
- Bones
- Boston Legal
- Brothers & Sisters
- Burn Notice
- Californication
- Cashmere Mafia
- Chuck
- The Closer
- CSI
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Damages
- Dance War
- Dancing with the Stars
- Desperate Housewives
- Dexter
- Dirty Sexy Money
- Dollhouse
- Eleventh Hour
- Eli Stone
- Eureka
- The Ex List
- Farmer Wants a Wife
- Finales
- Flash Gordon
- Friday Night Lights
- Fringe
- Ghost Whisperer
- Gossip Girl
- Greatest American Dog
- Greek
- Grey's Anatomy
- Hell's Kitchen
- Heroes
- High School Musical: Get in the Picture
- The Hills
- House
- How I Met Your Mother
- I Love Money
- In Plain Sight
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
- Jericho
- Journeyman
- Kid Nation
- Kitchen Nightmares
- Knight Rider
- Kyle XY
- The L Word
- Las Vegas
- Last Comic Standing
- Lie to Me
- Life on Mars
- Lipstick Jungle
- Lost
- Mad Men
- Make Me A Supermodel
- Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation
- The Mentalist
- The Middleman
- The Mole
- Momma's Boys
- Moonlight
- My Boys
- My Fair Brady
- My Name Is Earl
- My Own Worst Enemy
- Nashville Star
- NCIS
- New Amsterdam
- The Next Great American Band
- The Office
- One Tree Hill
- Paradise Hotel 2
- Prison Break
- Private Practice
- Privileged
- Project Runway
- Pushing Daisies
- Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious
- Reality TV
- Reaper
- Rock of Love 2
- Rock of Love Bus
- Saving Grace
- Scott Baio Is 46... and Pregnant
- Scrubs
- Shear Genius
- Side Order of Life
- Smallville
- So You Think You Can Dance
- Step It Up & Dance
- Stylista
- Supernatural
- Superstars of Dance
- Survivor
- Survivor: China
- Survivor: Gabon
- Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites
- Survivor: Tocantins
- Swingtown
- Tell Me You Love Me
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- The Shield
- Top Chef: Chicago
- Top Chef: New York
- Top Design
- True Beauty
- The Tudors
- Ugly Betty
- Weeds
- The Wire
