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Eric Deggans

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Eric Deggans

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    Eric Deggans is a critic-at-large at NPR, offering reporting and analysis on TV, media, film, pop culture and social issues for the network. He moved into this part-time role in 2025 after serving nearly 12 years as the first full-time TV critic hired by the network, contributing as a media analyst and guest host during his tenure as a full-time staffer. Deggans stepped back from full time work at NPR to assume the Knight Chair in Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington and Lee University in V

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Eric Deggans

    Can you imagine a universe without a new 'Star Trek' on the horizon? (opens the original)

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    Ask actress Jeri Ryan about the endurance of Star Trek, and she answers with the earnestness of a truly converted fan. "The way that Star Trek has always held a mirror up to society and always been political in a non-threatening way … it's fascinating to me. It was groundbreaking," said Ryan, who knew little about Trek when she joined Voyager in 1997 to play the character Seven of Nine. Ryan marveled at how the original series, which debuted on NBC in 1966, featured a Russian character as the Co

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Eric Deggans

    How television and literature wrestled with 9/11 (opens the original)

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    Major world events often find their way into our culture in the forms of books and movies. So as we continue our coverage this week of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we want it to look at how that day has been reflected across literature and television. To do that, we're joined by the host of our Book of the Day podcast, Andrew Limbong, and NPR's critic-at-large, Eric Deggans. Welcome to both of you. PFEIFFER: TV feels to me like the right place to start here because most of u

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Eric Deggans

    Longtime Trump critic Rosie O'Donnell is stepping in for Jimmy Kimmel this week (opens the original)

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    Let's stay with the lawsuit from Disney and ABC, and note that it comes while Jimmy Kimmel, himself, is on summer vacation, and a big Trump critic is filling in for him. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!") UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Chanting) Rosie, Rosie, Rosie. KELLY: They're chanting, Rosie. Rosie O'Donnell's first show as guest host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was last night. When Kimmel announced her hosting gig, he called it a special treat for the commander in chief who has traded barbs wi

  5. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Eric Deggans

    Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii (opens the original)

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    Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts. Total rainfall of nearly three feet (one meter) was expected on the higher windward slopes, turning rivers into raging torrents and threatening mudslides. Tropical storm conditions were spreading westward Sunday from Maui to Oahu and then Kauai, and the National Hurricane Center warned that wind speeds atop mountains and on the

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