DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

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 an...

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 th...

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 fir...

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 a...

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...

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 y...

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 tru...

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 Mo...

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 Christoph...

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 W...

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...

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, seas...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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 i...

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 t...

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 an...

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 t...

"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...

"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 acco...

"You forever changed the vampire genre. You took us into their hearts and into their souls." – Christopher Rice  As they continue to celebrate the memory of their most beloved guest — and Christopher's mother, and Eric's dear friend — your hosts serve up another "Dinner with Anne". In 2014, the menu for this particular meal was a closely guarded secret until the last possible second. When the cove...

"I am the only woman I know of who's ever been played by Brad Pitt on screen." – Anne Rice Still reeling from the loss of Anne Rice, our beloved Premiere Party Person, Christopher and Eric return to the studio for the first time since her passing to bring you the first in this special series of archival interviews showcasing some of the finest moments of Anne's career. We're calling it "Dinner wit...

A former college basketball star turned recovering addict, or a man who claims Bigfoot might be capable of multiple murders? America's first terrorist airplane bombing, or a savage New York homicide shrouded in a media driven narrative of lies? In their 2021 True Crime Countdown, Christopher and Eric turned to you, our Party People, for your picks for their best true crime episode of the year. The...