Member Profile
John Griffiths
- Primary Outlet:
- Emmy Magazine
- Additional Outlets:
- AARP TV for Grownups
- Twitter:
- https://twitter.com/TVTimeWithJohn
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-griffiths-99540511
- Biography:
- John Griffiths, Us Weekly's sole Television Critic from December 2003 to March 2017, is a regular contributor to Emmy magazine (the publication of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) as well as AARP magazine and its TV for Grownups vertical. John is also Executive Director and founder of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of under-represented entertainment journalists. Born in Los Angeles, John earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California. He spent seven years as a Special Correspondent for People magazine and later was the Senior Arts & Entertainment Editor for The Advocate and a Contributing Editor at Women's Health magazine. He's also a well-regarded celebrity profile writer, having notched cover stories on the likes of Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Garner and Courteney Cox for magazines such as TV Guide, InStyle, Cosmopolitan and Glamour. His passion for TV dates back to his childhood, when he created fall programming schedules with made-up shows for his own imaginary network (he was president, of course, and The Lee Majors Variety Hour was a big hit). His current Top 10 actual shows are The Good Fight, What We Do in the Shadows, The Rachel Maddow Show, Pennyworth, Baskets, Dear White People, Fareed Zakaria GPS, Get Shorty, Corporate and Work in Progress.