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Last Updated: July 19, 2006

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.


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