Best & Worst of TV 2012 with EW’s Ken Tucker
Episode 55 : Media Mayhem
Episode Synopsis
Ken Tucker joins the show to talk about the Emmy awards and the current crop of shows that are premiering.
Along the way he discusses the bittersweet after taste of Aaron Sorkin and the trouble with Matthew Perry.
Along the way he discusses the bittersweet after taste of Aaron Sorkin and the trouble with Matthew Perry.
Guest Bio
Ken Tucker is Editor-at-Large for Entertainment Weekly, and is the magazine’s DVD critic. He was film critic for New York Magazine in 2005. Before that, he was Entertainment Weekly’s chief TV critic and Critic-At-Large since EW’s founding, in 1989.
His EW writing has won two National Magazine Awards. He is a regular weekly reviewer for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” NPR’s third most-popular show.
He is the 2003 and 2004 recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for essays about music.
Before Entertainment Weekly, he was the TV critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
His EW writing has won two National Magazine Awards. He is a regular weekly reviewer for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” NPR’s third most-popular show.
He is the 2003 and 2004 recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for essays about music.
Before Entertainment Weekly, he was the TV critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
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