David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1976, when he first got paid to write columns about television for Florida's The Gainesville Sun, while still a student at the University of Florida. The starting pay was $5 per column, and the ending pay wasn't much more - but those clips, and a Masters degree in Journalism and Communications, were enough to land a full-time job the following year, writing about television for The Ft. Lauderdale News, which eventually became The Sun-Sentinel.

From there, other TV critic jobs followed: Ohio's The Akron Beacon Journal (1980-83), Pennsylvania's The Philadelphia Inquirer (1983-87), The New York Post (1987-93), and, most recently, The New York Daily News (1993-2007). On radio, he provided a TV review for the inaugural nightly broadcast of National Public Radio's Fresh Air in 1987, and has been that show's TV critic ever since. He also serves as guest host, substituting for Terry Gross.

Bianculli has written two books on television and its impact: Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously (1992) and its even more clunkily titled sequel, Dictionary of Teleliteracy: Television's 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events (1996). At this moment, he's hard at work on a third: Dangerously Funny: The UnCensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". He's also contributed chapters to other books, including The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut (1994), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers (1996), and Reading Quality TV: American Television and Beyond (2007).

His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in TV Guide, The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, The Week, Variety, Film Comment, The London Independent, Washington Journalism Review, Electronic Media, Television Quarterly, Television Business International, Taxi, Fame, Parents' Choice, Family Life, Channels of Communication, and syndicated in hundreds of daily newspapers.

He also teaches college courses on television history and appreciation, introducing almost all of his students to the likes of Rod Serling's Patterns and the zany work of Ernie Kovacs.

The purpose of TV WORTH WATCHING is to ferret out and celebrate what's good about TV. The bad stuff, certainly, is easy enough to find. But in an ever-expanding TV universe, and with newspapers devoting less space and resources to quality analysis of television, where can a person turn to find trustworthy, informed recommendations about the best of what's out there?

That place, it is hoped, is right here.

Visit the TV WORTH WATCHING home page every day, and you'll get a brief listing of the day's very best television offerings - whether they're weekly series, documentary specials, movies, children's offerings, or bizarre but worthwhile cult items.

TV WORTH WATCHING also provides recommendations about the best new releases of TV shows on DVD, and suggests some classics you might want to check out that you haven't yet seen. There are also the same types of recommendations about books related to TV, and about TV-related CD collections. No matter what the format - DVDs, CDs, books - nothing is listed on TV WORTH WATCHING unless it's really, really good.

Other elements of this website, for those who take the time to poke around, include exclusive interviews with people who are associated with quality television, whether as creators, executives, performers, or journalists. Also included is BIANCULLI'S BLOG, which may or may not be exclusively about television, or even overwhelmingly positive. (Every critic has to vent somewhere.) As the site expands, other voices will be added. And in the FEEDBACK section, questions are asked which solicit your opinions as well.

Oh, and one necessary word about editorial independence and online advertising. Any ads that appear on TV WORTH WATCHING, whether for networks, programs or individual product releases, are placed primarily because that advertiser wants to reach consumers interested in quality television. No ad will be accepted for a product or program considered sub-par, and the acceptance of any ad has no bearing on whether that product, program or network is featured on the website.