The star of A&E’s Shipping Wars, Roy Garber, died Friday, two days after the show’s fifth season finished airing. His cat is okay. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to Variety. The documentary feature films nominated for an Oscar are The Act of Killing, Cutie and the Boxer, The Square, Dirty Wars, …
A second season of Whodunnit is a possibility, and could even feature celebrity contestants, according to its executive producer, CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, who has kept the game play of the show alive since the season finale with a special Twitter version. Zuiker told me that Whodunnit was “the best experience of my career,” because …
ABC’s Whodunnit concluded with an intense, rapid-fire finale that had a challenge and pace reminiscent of an outstanding The Amazing Race finale. But it was guilty of emphasizing the wrong thing, insisting that the “who” mattered in everything from its title to its finale’s focus. The episode began with a Giles-narrated intro that should have …
ABC’s Whodunnit is far from perfect. It is, after all, a series whose name makes no sense because who committed the fake murders does not matter. But the last three minutes of this week’s episode perfectly illustrate why it’s so watchable and fun, and I don’t just mean the call-back to Clue. As you can …
An interview with CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker about how ABC’s Whodunnit? was produced, from the identity of the murderer to the fake death scenes.
Update: The show’s executive producer Anthony Zuiker discusses this and gives behind-the-scenes details. Episode two of ABC’s Whodunnit–and also brought out even more people who thought that a broadcast reality TV show actually killed its contestants. The second episode was, for me, about the same as the first, with similar strengths and weaknesses–though the post-investigation …
Update: The show’s executive producer Anthony Zuiker discusses this and gives behind-the-scenes details. The new ABC reality competition Whodunnit debuted last night and included the pretend murder of two contestants, one of whom wasn’t really a contestant at all. Some viewers were, at best, confused about whether or not the show was really killing people, …