Tim Goodman is the Television Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to criticism, he covers the industry and writes trend and analysis pieces, mostly about failure.

• 24
• Lost
• Rome
• Sopranos
• Survivor
• The Riches
• The Wire

• April 25, 2007-What's on TV, How should you know
• April, 20, 2007-It's no news that MSNBC's Olbermann knows how to do news best

• Podcast with Stephen Colbert Part 1 Part 2Part 3 Part 4

Affectionately added from this fine site

• I don't believe in those "Kill Your Television" bumperstickers. Not watching TV because you think it's all trash is not only blindly fanatic but also wrong. What, a shuttle blows up, the president gives the State of the Union Address at the same time the O.J. civil verdict comes in, the Gulf War redefines combat TV or there's a documentary on race relations on PBS and you're too good to watch?
• Reality TV is doing genetic damage to the population. Each new generation shows less and less resistance to going on television and doing something stupid. In three years it'll be "Who Wants to Light Me on Fire?"

Tim Goodman is the Television Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is only the third TV Critic in the history of the Chronicle, which was founded in 1865. In addition to criticism, he covers the industry and writes trend and analysis pieces, mostly about failure. He does not interview actors or cover local news. He's been hacking it up in journalism for more than 20 years, working previously at the San Francisco Examiner, [[Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, Palo Alto Weekly and the Peninsula Times-Tribune, after graduating from San Jose State University - though he wanted to go to Cal.

Among his national awards are a first place for criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the 2003 Herb Caen Memorial Award from The National Society of Newspaper Columnists and in 2001 and 2006 he was named best TV Critic in the country from the media web site newsblues.com, though it appears the site immediately regretted the decision. He has written for Business 2.0, Ironminds.com (still owed some money from that) and was once the golf writer for South African Sports Illustrated. He recently taught a course in criticism at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, thus allowing him to finally buy a Cal hat and hoodie.

He also teaches a class on television for the visual studies department of the California College of the Arts. He can be heard every Monday at 8:30 a.m. on the "KFOG Morning Show," 104.5 FM. Periodically he's called upon to rant about something for KNBR, KCBS or KGO radio, and then duplicate those witticisms and diatribes for industry magazines like Variety, Television Week or Emmy magazine, after which he feels totally used and minutely embarrassed. His podcasts can be heard at the iTunes music store, keyword: KFOG. Like everyone else in the world, he's writing a book, but not actually working on it.