TV Worth Watching

David Bianculli, the TV critic for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air since 1987, is the founder and editor of a website called, TV Worth Watching. The title is called for because, as David Byrne said, “People like to put the television down,” but television is no more monolithic than movies, magazines or books. There is

Getting Better, XV

Last month, David Byrne’s web site, Reasons to Be Cheerful, shared The Year in Cheer, over 100 “bits of good news that kept us sane in 2020.” These are my favorites: The world is gaining two million acres of leafy cover per year, an increase of about five percent since 2000. Police in Durham, England