Mark Peikert

Contributor

@MarkPeikert      

Mark Peikert has over a decade of experience as an editor and writer. The host of the podcast Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals, he has served as editor-in-chief of Playbill, Backstage, and New York Press, and written for Rolling Stone, Town & Country, and Out Magazine, among others. His first novel, Jagged Sophistication, is out now. 

• POSTED August 17, 2022

  
  HBO Spent $25 Million on This Show in 2007. It Never Aired.
  Batgirl isn't the first big budget project to end up on the scrap heap.
• POSTED June 30, 2022

  
  Recommended: Maggie on Hulu
  Rebecca Rittenhouse charms in Hulu's witty new ensemble comedy.
• POSTED June 13, 2022

  
  Suddenly Everyone on TV is Getting Possessed
  A plot device once relegated to soaps, show after show is pumping new life into the body-snatchers bit.
• POSTED May 31, 2022

  
  Recommended: P-Valley Season 2 on Starz
  As the strip club and its dancers endure the pandemic, the show's second season is as rich and provocative as ever.
• POSTED May 23, 2022

  
  Technology Has Become TV's Favorite Metaphor, But What Does It Mean?
  How a show's relationship to gadgets can be a window into its personality.