With its period costumes and not-always-terrible reenactors, the Discovery Channel series A CRIME TO REMEMBER is a TDPS favorite, but episode 6 of season 4, entitled "Guess Who?" left Christopher and Eric scratching their heads and checking the rafters. This story of marital murder in 1922 Los Angeles at first seems pretty cut and dried….until you look up. As the twists and turns unfold, Eric focuses his magnifying glass on the most important question of all — how stupid were the cops assigned t...
Aug 14, 2022•52 min
In which your hosts Christopher and Eric get self-reflective about something other than their diet plans. Why do we love true crime stories? What do we gain from studying them and discussing them? We asked you for your thoughts on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Many of you went deep, some of you went dark, and that's why you're our Party People.
Aug 07, 2022•56 min
Christopher and Eric's True Crime Special Editions bring you a multi-episode true crime documentary series in one steaming episode of their opinion-packed podcast. This Special Edition is THE CLOWN AND THE CANDYMAN, currently streaming on Discovery Plus. Is it a probing expose of the secret child abuse rings that connected depraved serial killers Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy or a fevered batch of Q Anon level nonsense spiced with doses of nouveau Satanic Panic? One thing's for sure. Conspiracy...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Are we alone in the universe? Did countless residents of Phoenix, Arizona all lose their minds on the same spring evening in 1997? Do the makers of the JJ Abrams produced Showtime documentary series "UFO" care about the answers to these questions as much as Christopher and Eric do? Listen to this out-there episode to find out. It's capped off by a frightening close encounter of the absurd kind with incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand whose views on outer space are limited by the great v...
Jul 24, 2022•59 min
As summer continues, Christopher and Eric take to the high seas of true crime again. This particular journey leads them to a destination so chilling its details are forever seared in their memories. Tom and Jackie Dawes decided to sell their fifty-foot pleasure cruiser so they could move closer to their new grandson. But after a planned meeting with the boat's new buyers, the loving husband and wife vanish into the sunset. As they follow the trail to the couple's last known whereabouts, desperat...
Jul 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min
In their first ever live on location episode of "TDPS Presents CHRISTOPHER & ERIC", your hosts travel to Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas for a mimosa-filled celebration of Premiere Party Person — and Christopher's mother — Anne Rice. For this special tribute, they're joined by bestselling romance authors Lexi Blake and Xio Axelrod, who celebrate the impact Anne had on their work and the world of preternatural fantasy and romance as Christopher and Eric share personal and collegial memories of ...
Jul 10, 2022•43 min
Summer's upon us and it's time for Christopher and Eric to set sail on the high seas of murder. Or the more murky waters of mysterious disappearances. Now that Eric has singlehandedly "saved the Peacock", he's plumbing the depths of the NBC streaming platform's true crime offerings and salvaging the most promising pieces of lost cargo. That's how he found CRUISE SHIP KILLERS, season 1, episode 25, entitled "James" for our 4th of July edition. Did a night of Independence Day celebration aboard a ...
Jul 03, 2022•54 min
Our last Pride Month episode of 2022 comes to you on the anniversaries of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decisions that made marriage equality the law of the land. What better way to celebrate than with a tribute to HEARTSTOPPER, a new Netflix series that has forever raised the bar for depictions of queer men and their love. Swoon along with Christopher and Eric as they talk about the importance of representation and their own sometimes rocky paths towards s...
Jun 26, 2022•59 min
For their Pride Month episode, Eric was on the hunt for a true crime special that impacted the gay community, but what he turned up was a case with shocking parallels to a gruesome unsolved murder your hosts have been trying to draw attention to for years. In season 5, episode 7 of WORLD'S MOST EVIL KILLERS, entitled Patrick Kearney, a man claims to be solely responsible for the gruesome murder and dismemberment of more than thirty young men over many years. But what about his partner, the man h...
Jun 19, 2022•57 min
As Pride Month continues, Christopher and Eric demand more movies about gay fathers. Until they arrive, they'll have to be content with moves like JOE BELL, the real life story of a father who was forever changed by his gay son's devastating experience with high school bullying. Mark Wahlberg and Reid Miller deliver great performances, but with the same screenwriters as BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, does the movie live up the redemptive promise of its trailer? The answers are mixed, and leave Christopher ...
Jun 12, 2022•57 min
Christopher and Eric commence their Pride Month observances in an international way with this riveting tale of anti-gay violence, police misconduct and moving family loyalty from Down Under. In "Deep Water – The Real Story", a rash of suspicious deaths and disappearances of gay men at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach reveals a dark legacy of violent hatred and a police force even more complicit than first meets the eye. Where the documentary ends, Christopher and Eric bring you the hopeful and encoura...
Jun 05, 2022•59 min
Beach season is upon us, and that means it's time for Christopher and Eric to turn a fun and sunny thing into a firestorm of apocalyptic negativity. We asked you, our Party People, to share with us your worst vacation experience ever, and boy, did we get some disastrous doozies! And, of course, your hosts shared up their own nightmarish journeys into hurricane force winds, exploding gas stations and snake-filled barrier islands. If your stuck with a staycation this season, this episode will make...
May 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Batter up! At least we think that's how you say it. Christopher and Eric aren't the biggest baseball fans, but they thought they should celebrate the season with a serving of #TrueCrimeTVClub that features the all American pastimes of Major League Baseball and… Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yeah, that's right. In the twisted Netflix docudrama LONGSHOT, it's time to break out the Cracker Jacks and find out how a Dodgers fan came within striking distance of a massive injustice.
May 22, 2022•55 min
Christopher can't seem to stop publishing new novels this year, and poor Eric keeps getting pulled away from his own writing to celebrate their releases. This time it's DECIMATE, a twisty horror thriller about plane crashes, near death experiences and telekinesis in the hands of a madman. Your hosts decided to mark the creepy occasion by asking you, our Party People, to name the book that scared you the most. (Spoiler alert — there's one clear winner and it stars a balloonist.) EPISODE BONUS: Fi...
May 15, 2022•57 min
For the second course in our Mother’s Day true crime pairing, it’s a True Crime Movie Time featuring CHANGELING, the too-often overlooked Clint Eastwood film based on the horrors of the Wineville Chicken Coop murders, which we served up in our last episode. The focus this time is on Christine Collins, the courageous mother of one of the victims expertly played by Angelina Jolie in this sad but true story. After she reports her son Walter missing, the Los Angeles Police Department claims to locat...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min
As this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club proves, some mothers are for the birds. Dive into the disturbing real life horror show that inspired next week's True Crime Movie Time as Christopher and Eric serve up episode 12, season 3 of EVIL KIN, entitled Body Farm. It's a disturbing exploration of the notorious Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. It's also the first course in our Mother's Day true crime pairing that serves up the best and the absolute worst of the maternal amo...
May 01, 2022•56 min
Each week, Christopher and Eric post a special Wednesday Question on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Sometimes the responses from you, our Party People, blossom into compelling episodes. Our recent question “What comes after death?” resulted in a fascinating discussion that includes mystical near death experiences, various forms of religious belief and an emotional opportunity for Christopher and Eric to discuss their ongoing grief at the loss of beloved Premier Party Person, Anne Rice.
Apr 24, 2022•55 min
He's called Canada's Jeffrey Epstein. But if you've never heard of Peter Nygard, don't worry, Christopher and Eric hadn't either until diving headfirst into UNSEAMLY: THE INVESTIGATION OF PETER NYGARD available on Discovery Plus. Listen in as your hosts serve up this stunning and devastating tale of how wealth and celebrity were used to enable a vast network of criminality and abuse. From wintry Winnipeg to the sun drenched Bahamas, this is one of the most epic and disturbing true crime sagas th...
Apr 17, 2022•56 min
Infamous "don't say gay" bills and their institutionalized bigotry are the new front lines in a culture war designed to distract from one political party's enabling of a criminal president who tried to overthrow the government after spending years supporting a corrupt dictator he worked for and who may now usher in World War III. So Christopher and Eric have decided to go positive! In this episode, they celebrate the gay story driven novels, movies and television shows that most profoundly impac...
Apr 10, 2022•54 min
The mysterious disappearance of handsome Hollywood film executive Gavin Smith gets stranger and stranger… depending on who's telling the story. In their first ever True Crime TV Club Redux, Christopher and Eric pit two dueling true crime shows-- each covering the same crime--against each other to find out which one told the truth and which one stretched the facts to breaking. It’s Episode 47, season 25 of DATELINE, entitled Dark Valley, vs THE PERFECT MURDER, Season 5, Episode 9, a show already ...
Apr 03, 2022•55 min
Christopher and Eric complete their fashionable “true crime pairing” by letting out the hems, the sleeves and the waist on the outrageous ensemble parading through Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci”. Who are the real villains in this purported true crime opus? The convicted murderers or the fake accents? And who deserves to be nominated for their retelling of this tale of family intrigue and tragedy? Lady Gaga or Lester Holt?
Mar 27, 2022•58 min
It’s the first in an Oscar season “true crime pairing” and possibly Christopher and Eric’s most fashionable True Crime TV Club to date! In advance of our discussion of the controversial Lady GaGa film based on the same shocking case, Christopher and Eric serve up DATELINE episode 10, season 30, entitled “Murder In The House of Gucci”. So much more than just the facts, ma’am.
Mar 20, 2022•55 min
To celebrate their birthdays this year, your hosts Christopher and Eric are serving up a generous slice of one of their favorite comfort watches, the classic (and campy) mystery series MURDER, SHE WROTE. They’ll dish about the sweet spots and the sour bites on offer in the show’s first season. It’s not True Crime TV Club, but some of the ingredients are just as tasty.
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Christopher just released SAPPHIRE SUNSET, the first book in his steamy and emotional Sapphire Cove series. Since the novel's set at a luxury resort, Eric thought that in honor of Christopher's new work and achievement, this week's True Crime TV Club should be hospitality-themed, so we bring you DATELINE Season 21, episode 3, entitled "Family Affair", a tale of murder, brutality and millions among the family behind one of Miami Beach's most storied hotels – a riveting choice even if there was no...
Mar 06, 2022•57 min
Christopher & Eric's True Crime Special Edition serves up a multi-episode true crime documentary series for you in one episode of our podcast. In this installment, we bring you the HBO series MURDER ON MIDDLE BEACH, a sprawling and frustrating tale of suburban privilege and addiction that at times pushes the boundaries of journalistic ethics. When Connecticut housewife and mother Barbara Hamburg is brutally murdered in 2010, police fail to arrest the prime suspect. In the years since, her so...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Christopher and Eric are both writers, and so it's often their duty to bring you the real story they see hidden behind TV's smoke and mirrors. Never has that been more true than with THE CURSE OF THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE on Discovery +. As its stars seek out a supposed vampire inside a Victorian London cemetery, this overwrought and scattered ghost hunter's tale wants to dazzle you with night vision trickery and talk of ley lines. Eric would prefer to focus on the tale of two feuding egomaniacs who ...
Feb 20, 2022•59 min
On a special Valentine's Day edition of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts serve up philandering politicians, deranged cults and a rousing discussion of the true meaning of the word "filth". Christopher heads to the Garden State for the unsettling tale of the gay icon gay people didn't want, serving up Season 2, Episode 9 of STRANGE BEDFELLOWS on Discovery +. Eric takes a dusty and disturbing road trip to the plains of Utah with Season 4, Episode 2 of the same series where a...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr
Great artists remain immortal through their work, so we never have to truly say goodbye. To honor the posthumous release of "Ramses the Damned – The Reign of Osiris", your hosts Christopher and Eric have their first unscripted discussion of Anne Rice's impact on their lives and work since her passing. Christopher offers a glimpse inside the collaborative writing process with his late mother on the second and third books in her wildly popular series about resurrected and immortal pharaoh, Ramses ...
Feb 06, 2022•55 min
"You have to write the book you want to read." – Anne Rice What better way to wrap up this special tribute to Anne's memory than with cheers and applause? In our fourth "Dinner with Anne" we bring you Anne's appearance at the only episode of The Dinner Party Show ever to take place in front of a live audience. Join a gleeful crowd of cosplayers and comic book fans as they cheer Anne's thoughts on the ins and outs of Hollywood, the genius of Star Wars and…Lexapro keyboards? You'll have to listen ...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr
"It seemed like the gift you gave everyone last night at the [Lestat Coronation] Ball was freedom." – Eric Shaw Quinn The TDPS celebration of Anne Rice's memory continues. For our third "Dinner with Anne", we're headed south for an elegant sit-down in the city that care forgot. Step into Anne's French Quarter hotel suite the day after the dazzling Lestat Coronation Ball to hear Anne's joyful account of the many costumed fans who celebrated the Brat Prince's return to the printed page with a nigh...
Jan 23, 2022•59 min
