These are the people who make TWoP possible!
There are two types of Staff pages. The Show Staff pages list the recappers for an individual show. The Show Staff page for any particular show can be accessed from that show's section. A complete list of all shows, past and present can be found on the Shows page.
The other type of staff page is the Master Staff page which lists every staff member who's worked for TWoP since the gold rush days.
Djb
| a.k.a. | Daniel J. Blau |
| djb@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Hot chicks, fast cars, the continuing cultural relevance of professional a cappella music and its rabid and vocal fan base, and the year that I was old enough to really remember and greatly enjoy the Mets winning the World Series. Oh, wait. |
| Dislikes | The public perception perpetrated by people who didn't grow up on Long Island that Billy Joel is, in fact, a big ol' cheeseball. And ugly chicks. |
| Favourite Shows | Favourite Shows: The Daily Show, animated series recommended by Wing Chun and Glark, anything not produced by Mike Fleiss |
| Bio | Djb hasn't come up with original thought that hasn't been set to music or published somewhere on the internet since the Fall of 1999. He has co-written a musical (Monica! The Musical), and if you haven't heard of it, you're either not paying attention or you're not his extremely supportive mom. He was just kidding about the "hot chicks" part from above, but he's flattered that he gets asked about it so often. |
| Recaps | Roswell, Twin Peaks, Making the Band, The Real World: Boston, Oz, Push Nevada, The Bachelor(ette), Skin, America's Next Top Model, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fianc�, Six Feet Under, and The O.C. |
Glark
| a.k.a. | David T. Cole |
| glark@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Playing Counter-Strike until 4am |
| Dislikes | Things involving tools and nails |
| Favourite Shows | Clone High (Damn you MTV), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama (damn you Fox!), The Prisoner, Amazing Race, Deadwood, Home Movies, Battlestar Galactica, Connections, Arrested Development, lots of 'boring' history shows and the Dr. Gene Scott show which is really fucked up |
| Bio | Glark runs �ber Interactive, an interactive agency specializing in web solutions for entertainment and community-minded properties as well as producing TWoP, Hissyfit and Fametracker. Glark waits for the day he'll have enough time to take a serious vegetarian cooking course. Glark also runs Glarkware, a t-shirt online store which rocks your world. |
| Recaps | Not much. Did a quarter of a Survivor recap, one episode of The West Wing and half of a Star Trek movie. Spends time strolling on the beach holding kittens at sunset. |
Jessica
| a.k.a. | Jessica Morgan |
| jessica@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Glossy fashion magazines, Diet Coke, trashy tabloids, iTunes, The New Yorker, true crime novels, Rosemary�s Baby, college football, cocktails, poker, gossip, etiquette books, architecture, the selected works of Judith Krantz, singing in the car, handbags, clever packaging, Las Vegas, cookbooks, eBay, reading, Mexican food, Chinatown, and young Paul Newman. |
| Dislikes | Pet birds, cigarettes, cotton balls, sweat pants in public, Pi�a Coladas, math, pumpkin pie, black licorice, clowns, and the fact that MTV never shows videos anymore. |
| Favourite Shows | Passions, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, Alias, America�s Next Top Model, The OC, Everwood, American Dreams, Nip/Tuck, reruns of Seinfeld, Dynasty,/I>, 90210: The Brenda Years, and a selection of very bad movies on Lifetime, especially ones featuring Tori Spelling. |
| Bio | When she�s not sequestered in the lab working on a synthetic version of human skin that can be used by spies to impersonate other people but which is also very easy to rip off dramatically, Jessica teaches CPR to blind children. In 1997, she won the Academy Award for best editing in a short subject for her film, Tastes Like Burning. In 1995, she earned a dual Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature and Astrophysics from UCLA. She makes her home in Los Angeles, California, where she is surrounded by thousands of other big fat liars. She and fellow recapper Heathen also spend a lot of time making fun of ugly celebrities. |
| Recaps | Jack & Bobby, The X-Files, Dawson's Creek, Kingpin, Line of Fire, Big Brother, Judging Amy, The Real World: Miami |
Joanna
| a.k.a. | Joanna Hughes |
| joanna@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Mashed potatoes; In Style; cheese; more cheese; William Hurt; Stockard Channing; pluots (a hybrid fruit combination of the plum and the apricot); American Fliers; introverts; movie theatre popcorn; lefties; girly drinks, preferably with parasols; duck confit; Leonard Cohen; New York City, and more specifically, Canal Street; latin dancing; ranunculi; Loehmann's; twinkle lights; men who are hirsute and/or baby-faced and/or slightly androgynous; the quiet; wedding pictures; fried things |
| Dislikes | White socks; nude pantyhose; ice -- chewing on, in drinks, etc.; grapes with seeds and most other fruits, too, except for pluots (see above); answering the telephone; co-workers in general; the drive from New Jersey to Connecticut; being told she'll "love" something or someone; people all up in her business; silverfish; Colin Farrell; gum |
| Favourite Shows | 90210, Buffy, A Year in the Life |
| Bio | Joanna braves the mean streets of Baltimore every day with her faithful dog Piglet at her side. Oh yeah, Pandora's there too. |
| Recaps | Survivor, The O.C. |
Kim
| a.k.a. | Kim Reed |
| kim@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Diet Pepsi, redheads, cheesy teen movies, little kids with British accents, off-brand reality shows, feminism, being an aunt, the late much-lamented Might magazine, and kicking it old school |
| Dislikes | People who think they are superior because they don't watch television, people who think they are superior because they don't watch reality television, people who think they are superior in general, blisters, getting up early, and people who are mean to animals |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, My So-Called Life, Alias, Sports Night, Homicide, NewsRadio, The Amazing Race, Little House on the Prairie, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. |
| Bio | When she's not working on her website, Fresh Hell, or working as a college instructor, Kim enjoys watching Endurance on Saturday mornings, plotting world domination one domain at a time, and playing "Name That TV Theme Song." It is her goal to someday record an answering machine message that will rival George Costanza's Greatest American Hero theme: "Believe it or not, George isn't at home...." |
| Recaps | The Bachelor, Bones, Boot Camp, Dark Angel, The Dead Zone, Ed, ER, Fastlane, Felicity, Freakylinks, Gideon's Crossing, Joe Millionaire, John Doe, Karen Sisco, Life As We Know It, Love Cruise, The Lyon's Den, The Mole, Oz, Party of Five, The Real World, Rescue Me, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, The Simple Life, The Sopranos, Summerland, Tough Enough, Trading Spaces, WWF Smackdown |
M. Giant
| a.k.a. | Jeff |
| mgiant@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | My wife Trash, my son M. Tiny, my three cats, my house, my life |
| Dislikes | "Low-carb" notices everywhere, tuning guitars, drivers who have no respect for the fact that I'm stuck behind their slow asses, things that don't stay fixed after I fix them (which may explain the tuning guitars thing) |
| Favourite Shows | The Daily Show, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Most Extreme Elimination, early seasons of countless shows that later turned to shit |
| Bio | M. Giant looks forward to a time when he stays home all day and makes a living as a freelance writer. He also looks backward to that time, as well as to a season as the Staff Writer for Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. At the moment he's doing something else. A published playwright, doting husband, new father, bumbling homeowner, and caretaker to three cats, his life is chronicled in punishing detail at Velcrometer. |
| Recaps | 24, Six Feet Under |
Miss Alli
| a.k.a. | Linda |
| missalli@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Corona, The Frames, being rid of Randy Moss, Gene Kelly movies, Philosophy margarita-flavored shampoo, director's commentaries, pretending to be from New York, making the opposition cry, What's The Matter With Kansas?, pad Thai, writing press releases for her fantasy baseball team, free stuff, her parents' dog, Diet Coke with Lime, nitpicky books about grammar, and the part of Bull Durham where Kevin Costner says, "Having a conversation with you is like a Martian talking to a fungo." |
| Dislikes | Martinis, self-consciously ironic bands, Constantine Maroulis, Clay Aiken, Justin Guarini, idiots who are smug, cakes with too much icing, the columnist who writes about Wisconsin for the St. Paul paper, Wisconsin, people who spell her handle with one L, unintentionally cold coffee, reality-television snobs, hotels without in-room coffee, unnecessary narration, and movies where Robin Williams plays a member of one of the helping professions. |
| Favourite Shows | The Amazing Race, Law & Order, World's Wildest Police Videos, Sports Night, Friends, old episodes of Moonlighting |
| Bio | Miss Alli hangs out in Minnesota, where she is an attorney. No, really. She has a little card and everything. She can usually be found watching DVD audio commentaries, defending reality television, reading about ways to make her apartment look bigger, and having long, meandering arguments with the people she really likes. Whenever she can think of anything to say, she airs her id at Frolic and Detour. |
| Recaps | The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Married By America, Survivor, The Apprentice, The West Wing |
Omar G
| a.k.a. | Omar L. Gallaga |
| omarg@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | DVD extras, video games of all creeds and colors, writing, reading, reading about writing, reading too many Web journals, stadium-seating theaters, fine comedic stylings, traveling, Radiohead |
| Dislikes | Anything to do with Creed, dial-up modems, jet lag, Anne Rice's prose, most channels that aren't HBO |
| Favourite Shows | Mr. Show, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Twin Peaks, The Chris Rock Show, The O.C., Alias, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Six Feet Under, 24 |
| Bio | Omar G. used to think he was alone in the pop culture wasteland, and then he met the Television Without Pity posse. He started a site, Terribly Happy, and has contributed to some of his favorite places on the Web, including Hissyfit and Fametracker. He lives in Austin where he works at a newspaper and performs and writes with the Latino Comedy Project. |
| Recaps | City of Angels, Third Watch, Smallville |
Wing Chun
| a.k.a. | Tara Ariano |
| wingchun@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Cereal, naps, Ballistic, talking shit, candy, new books, Elliott Smith, Coca-Cola Classic, Jerry Orbach, the Beatles 1965-68, and Bring It On |
| Dislikes | Alarm clocks, migraines, people who think Heather in The Blair Witch Project was a bitch, Salon.com, and The Man |
| Favourite Shows | The Daily Show, Felicity, Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Futurama, Newsradio reruns, Will & Grace, Once & Again, Kids in the Hall, Alias, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, C.S.I., The Amazing Race, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Mr. Show |
| Bio | Wing Chun wrote this bio at 4:28 AM on a weekday, which tells you nearly everything you need to know about her. Wing Chun also rides tall in the saddle at Hissyfit and Fametracker. She lives, laughs, and loves in Toronto. |
| Recaps | Dawson's Creek, ER, My So-Called Life |