DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Sometimes the rankest easter eggs during Easter Eggs Month are the ones buried in the basement. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. To close out this month devoted to all the things that didn’t survive the growing season, Christopher and Eric serve up both installments of the recent HBO Max documentary MURDER IN GLITTERBALL CITY. Some of the subjects feel uncomfortably familiar. (Did we date any of thes...

Christopher and Eric are the proud inventors of the term “recincrapments” – actually, we think it was Eric, but Christopher likes to steal half the credit — and they feel justified in bestowing this dubious honor on the absolutely hideous re-enactments smeared all over this week’s serving. If there was ever an episode of television for which the term “reincraptacular” was invented, it’s THE PERFEC...

Easter Eggs Month continues with a depraved and disturbing crime that unfolded in the dead of Easter Sunday night on an isolated Nebraska farm, shattering a respected local family in the process. In typical DATELINE style, Christopher and Eric are taken down winding, labyrinthine roads peopled by vicious late night intruders, devastated families and dubious confessions obtained under duress. They’...

Welcome to Easter Eggs Month, where the only thing that’s risen is the scent of death and deception. Christopher and Eric begin their dark celebration of the growing season with this tale of Spring Break gone to hell. While they’re pleasantly surprised by the production quality of the luridly entitled MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND, the arresting and emotional tale served up by the fourth episode of the...

When money isn't a motive, a dirty prosecutor will use sex shaming and sexual discrimination to make up for a lack of evidence or investigation. How's that for carrying the theme of the month all the way through to the end? Dirty Sexy Money Month concludes with a serving of two-part, Peacock true crime special, WHO KILLED ROBERT WONE? If their March birthdays only aged Christopher and Eric by anot...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the hosts of Dinner Partners are total suckers for any true crime special that uses the word "sassy" in the narration more than once. Such is the case with second episode of the second season of SOUTHERN FRIED HOMICIDE, portentously entitled "Romance Is Dead". Dirty Sexy Money Month continues with a toxic blend of all three ingredients. Being the mayor o...

Sometimes the dirtiest money is the kind that only exists in one man's imagination. That's the case in this new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club. Dirty Sexy Money Month continues, a month long birthday celebration for both of your hosts. True crime TV series VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL is the gift that keeps on giving, and episode 2 of season 5, "The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rocke...

March is Birthday Month for Christopher and Eric and so we're spending this month of episodes serving up the things they love most — Dirty Sexy Money. Not necessarily in that order, but usually in combination. What better way to kick off a birthday celebration than with a surprise visit from one of their favorite TV hosts of all time? After hearing their salacious True Crime TV Club serving of his...

Bromance Month goes dark again — really dark — with this new look at a hideous, landmark serial killing case, the first of its kind to be covered by national media as body after body was discovered inside a sweltering boat shed baking in the merciless heat of Houston Texas. In THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE, psychologist Katherine Ramsland — who also wrote a biography of Christopher's mother — int...

In which Christopher and Eric lose their collective minds and join the delirious, global freakout over the groundbreaking, generation-defining series, HEATED RIVALRY. They had no idea that when one of our Very Important Party People showed up in their VIPP Facebook group --sign up now-- talking about a "puck and **ck" show coming to Canadian television most of the planet would soon be in its firm,...

Bromance Month continues with the second in our two part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER in which last week's cliffhanger ending gives way to a gunslinging treasure hunt, small town style. As Christopher and Eric serve up the final two episodes of the series, the bodies keep dropping and the skeletons keep coming out of the closet. Meanwhile, your hosts have questions ranging from t...

Bromance Month begins in a rugged, mountainous American state about which host Eric Shaw Quinn has some controversial opinions relating to altitude, oxygen uptake and mental health. In part 1 of their the two-part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER, Christopher and Eric deliver episode 1 of the three episode series featuring dueling morticians, missed lunch dates, lesbian moms, abusive...

Let's just say this is the deepest of the deep fried episodes of DATELINE you'll ever find, and Christopher and Eric can think of no more fitting an end to Hot Dateline Month than this grease-poppin', wife-hoppin' installment. (Trigger warning. Given their own illustrious ancestries, your hosts will be using the term "white trash" as much as they damn well feel like, thank you very much ) There ar...

Hot Dateline Month has delivered sultry swaying palms and bleak Montana highways. Now it's time to head to an affluent Midwestern suburb where  — wait for it! — a seemingly idyllic marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. You know it's going to be a doozy when the narration begins by describing the episode as "One of the strangest stories we've ever had on DATELINE." Enter episode 4 of season 29...

Hot Dateline Month continues with this breakneck chase down the long dark highway of mental illness. Episode 16 of season 31, entitled "On A Dark, Deserted Highway", begins decades before the terrifying police pursuit that gives this episode its name. It’s the dark saga of a tormented man whose twisted actions towards his wives and loved ones should have resulted in his confinement and treatment y...

Welcome to Hot Dateline Month in which your hosts Christopher and Eric celebrate the iconic, storied and always reliable true crime phenomenon that started their obsession with the genre. And what better way to kick off this tribute than with the GAYEST DATELINE EVER. (That's not what NBC called it, of course.) Impeccably dressed fine arts dealers and terribly twinky con men collide under the scor...

Christopher and Eric are throwing a massive wrap party for one of the most exhausting and exhilarating years they've ever lived. No kidding. With ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION having been a glowing success in New Orleans on November 1st, and the sparkling film version now available for your free home viewing at AnneRice.com, they're taking time to celebrate some of the films, TV shows...

You failed us, Party People. We begged and we pleaded and we cried for you to bring us a potential true crime Christmastime story that wasn't another family massacre, and here we are again — and in a tranquil town named for a pretty flower, no less. Ho ho help, it's time for Christopher and Eric to serve up the second episode ever of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, entitled "Christmas Carnage In Carnat...

Welcome to Crueltide Carols! Tick, tock. Tick, tock. No, it's not the sound of time running out as you rush to get your holiday shopping done. An altogether different race against the clock drives this episode of one of Christopher and Eric's favorite True Crime TV Club offerings, A CRIME TO REMEMBER. In season 5, episode 4, entitled "Coffin For Christmas", we travel to the humid deep South in the...

Thanksgiving Beasts lives up to its name with this stomach-churning conclusion. Meet Omaima Nelson. Now that you've met her, run like hell. And don't go in her kitchen for any reason — especially on Thanksgiving. Was she a long suffering abuse victim who finally snapped — as the title of this true crime TV series suggests? Or was she a cool and calculating predator with a taste for human flesh – a...

Time to meet some more Thanksgiving Beasts. Welcome to East Hartford, Connecticut, home to some of the worst “recincrapments” we've ever seen in a true crime TV special and also some armless lizards and inexplicably decapitated fish. We're not kidding. It's all on offer in episode 7 of season 6 of BLOOD RELATIVES, entitled "Thanksgiving Day Charade". We're not sure what the charade is here except...

They did it. After years of cross-country filmmaking, archival preservation, set decorating, musical selections and countless Zoom meetings (so, so many Zoom meetings), Christopher and Eric presented ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION to a live audience in New Orleans. To celebrate the release of the event's film version on AnneRice.com, they're bringing you a special episode they recorded...

Welcome to Thanksgiving Beasts, when the world of true crime TV sets out to ruin one of America's most popular holidays. When a handsome, well-liked young bartender is shot execution style on a desolate Maryland road the night before Thanksgiving, his community reels, the cops go searching for suspects…and then everything goes as cold as Thanksgiving leftovers. But when the leads finally start pou...

In which we mark the 35th anniversary of the brutal murder of young gay man named Billy Newton, which was finally solved two years ago thanks to the persistence of a group of determined amateur detectives, Christopher and Eric included. But the case would never have been fully closed if it not for the tireless, diligent work of this episode's special returning guest, Clark Williams. And guess what...

The big weekend has arrived. Christopher and Eric are in New Orleans presenting ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, a gorgeous tribute to our dearly departed Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice to #AnneFans who are lucky enough to be there in person. To mark the occasion, here is an hors d’oeuvre to tide you over till the web cast of the event premieres on AnneRice.com. They've put together an...