Best & Worst of The Fall TV Season 2012 with Entertainment Weekly's Editor at Large Ken Tucker

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Published on Apr 5, 2022
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.

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.

ADD'L LINKS:
http://www.kentucker.net/
http://twitter.com/kentucker
http://watching-tv.ew.com/

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
00:01 Welcome to Media Mayhem.
00:14 Introducing Ken Tucker.
01:14 Ranking the 2012 Emmys.
04:05 Rating the different late night hosts interviewing skills.
07:28 Dissecting Chuck Lorre and Mike & Molly.
15:04 The problem with Matthew Perry.
20:40 Responding to Aaron Sorkin and "The Newsroom."
31:22 Film and TV cross-pollination.
34:30 A possible New York bias to the media and Dick Wolf.
37:20 The New York Times saturation coverage of single shows.
38:25 The election as the best of fall tv.
43:00 The hits and misses of the fall 2012 TV schedule.