DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Christopher and Eric take a break from dark tales and true crime so they can plot a dazzling escape from the world's troubles using the magic of Hollywood. What films and television shows have the power to transport us off our sofas during difficult times? Thanks to the recommendations you shared on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, your hosts travel from Scotland to Brooklyn to fantastical r...

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on 1995 is one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism ever carried out in the United States. But does AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: OKLAHOMA CITY offer up an origin story for bomber Timothy McVeigh that's supported by the facts? Christopher & Eric's #TrueCrimeTVClub tackles the question head on as the destructive consequences of anti-go...

The latest #TrueCrimeTVClub honors Black History Month by serving up HATRED IN AMERICA: THE KLAN ON TRIAL, Season 1, Episode 1, entitled "The Klan on Trial". Christopher and Eric follow journalist Tony Harris through an engrossing and impassioned tour of the court cases that formed the Southern Poverty Law Center and their efforts to combat the spread of virulent racism throughout the United State...

Christopher and Eric saluted Valentine's Day with an episode devoted to a serial killer, which pretty much sums up how they feel about the holiday. Now they're back to discuss the topics that supposedly, along with his martyrdom and decapitation, earned St. Valentine his own special spot on the calendar,. (But rest assured, there's no actual discussion of St. Valentine.) What's the most romantic t...

We were just looking for a True Crime TV Club offering darkly suited to Valentine’s Day. What we got was an episode of 20/20 so densely packed with murder, depravity and institutional incompetence you might want to take notes. Or you can just rely on the ones Christopher and Eric have taken for you as they serve up 20/20, Episode 9, Season 43, "The Dating Game Killer". Join your hosts for a terrif...

Over the course of several months, Christopher and Eric have been examining the gruesome, unsolved homicide of a young gay man named William Newton, who performed in adult films as Billy London. Now their work has garnered the attention of law enforcement. In their first ever interview for this podcast, Christopher and Eric talk with Detective John Lamberti of LAPD Homicide, who inherited Newton's...

A box office bomb at the theater, THE FROZEN GROUND rocketed to Netflix's Top 10 when it landed on the streamer in 2020. Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusak and former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens, this cinematic depiction of notorious Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen, who hunted women for sport, was based on the true crimes covered in Episode 61, the most recent installment of Christopher & Eric'...

Christopher and Eric take a twisted walk across the frozen trails of the Alaskan backwoods as they follow the crimes of real life serial killer Robert Hansen, who hunted women for sport. In the latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts try something a little different. By serving up ICE COLD KILLERS, Season 1, Episode 1, entitled "Hunting Humans", they'll visit the...

In Episode 48, Christopher and Eric marked the grim anniversary of their very own "hometown murder", the gruesome slaying of William Arnold Newton, a young gay West Hollywood man and adult film actor. Thirty years later, the crime remains unsolved. Your e-mails and feedback since their last episode have allowed Christopher and Eric to take an even deeper dive into the case, resulting in startling...

In this emotional edition of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts serve up the first true crime stories that disturbed them when they were young. For Eric, it's the murder of Kitty Genovese, a notorious tale of alleged urban apathy that smeared an entire city. But is anything you've heard about it actually true? Eric was stunned by the revelations within A CRIME TO REMEMBER, Seaso...

What is it with the holidays and gruesome spree killers? Christopher and Eric return to the true crime series HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS and serve up Season 2, Episode 8, "Bloody New Year's". When beloved Cindy Luu is murdered in front of her children on New Year's Eve, it kicks off a shocking crime wave and the Edmonton Police Service are drawn into a breathless hunt for answers. Is it gang violen...

Christopher and Eric shine a light on their favorite bright spots in a very dark year, serving up their picks for the most helpful, therapeutic and diverting highlights of 2020, the year of the pandemic. The result is a sumptuous buffet of entertainment options, exercise aids and self-care apps we're sure you'll enjoy. None of these are paid endorsements. Christopher and Eric are way too bitchy fo...

It wouldn't be the holidays if Christopher and Eric weren't talking about the hideous antics of a psychopath who destroys everything he touches. And that's the perfect description of TDPS special correspondent Jordan Ampersand, who makes a surprise appearance to smear his own noxious brand of holiday cheer all over this episode. And then, of course, there's the real-life psychopath in a Santa suit...

Christopher and Eric have served up true crime TV specials galore. Now it's time to unleash their sharp and silver tongues on a bigger screen in this new series devoted to breaking down feature films inspired by real life true crime dramas. The savage murder of a gay porn producer Bryan Kocis and its possible connection to an ongoing legal dispute with "twink" porn sensation Brent Corrigan made he...

There's very little diva Wendy Williams can't pull off, but how good is she at narrating a true crime series? Christopher and Eric are determined to find out as they serve up Episode 3 of Season 1 of DEATH BY GOSSIP, entitled "Her Last Christmas", in which the radio and TV star takes us to Jacksonville, Florida where a Christmas gift from the devil unleashes holy hell during the holiday season. Al...

Assuming it wasn't this one, Christopher and Eric asked you, the Party People, to share your recollections of the best Thanksgiving ever, and the result was a rousing discussion that gives us hope we can weather the strangest of all holiday seasons together. (This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Thanksgiving is the bloodiest time of the year. And not just for turkeys. In their first ever double stuffed, special edition of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts bring you not one, but two true crime specials in one. Eric heads to the town of Jupiter, Florida where he serves up a shocking family massacre in  Episode 1 of Season 1 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, "A Deadly Thanksgiv...

Christopher and Eric reached out to you, the Party People, on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page to find out how you're handling the holidays during this year without compare. Are you gathering around a socially distanced Thanksgiving table? Sanitizing your Christmas presents for forty-eight hours before opening? Hanging masks from the tree in the living room?  Your answers were enlightening an...

For their 50th episode, Christopher and Eric visit the 50th state! On the latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts take you to the island paradise of Hawaii and don't find anything close to the tropical escape they've been looking for. In the summer of 1931, when an inebriated Navy Officer’s wife decides to walk home alone from a local nightspot, the result is a se...

As Christopher comes out as a fan of cryptids, Eric wonders if these amateur videographers really captured some frenzied hauntings or if they've just got the world (and their appliances) on a string.  It's a special Halloween-adjacent episode that tackles the wild and supposedly frightening world of furry bigfoots, shapeshifters and ghosts, ghosts and more ghosts. Your hosts serve up two episodes...

It's been thirty years since the dismembered remains of William "Billy" Newton were discovered in a Hollywood dumpster, three decades in which his loved ones have gone without answers in his brutal killing. Last seen alive at a gay nightclub in West Hollywood, the young man's horrifying slaying traumatized a community, inspiring many wild theories, but no arrests or real leads. To mark this grim m...

Christopher and Eric return to one of their favorite true crime television series, the exquisitely produced and absolutely riveting THE CASE THAT HAUNTS ME, serving up Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 3, entitled "The Evil Fantasy, Parts 1 and 2". Like us, maybe you've heard of the notorious Canadian serial killer who hid the body parts of his victims in shockingly idyllic locations. But you might not k...

In one of the more moving and riveting installments of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club to date, your hosts serve up the powerful documentary film REWIND, an exploration of the sexual abuse that infected a family for generations and an indictment of how the criminal justice system treated one of its youngest victims. Directed by the man who was subjected to this horror show of physical, emo...

When satellites go high, TV producers go low. That's the basic flight path for WHAT ON EARTH? the latest victim…er, subject of Christopher and Eric's special series, "What's Science?" Eric takes to the skies of Episode 3, Season 8, and ultimately crash lands on an "Island of Alien Ooze". In Episode 4 of Season 2, Christopher peers down through the clouds to see "Who Built Supervillain Island?" eve...

Join Christopher and Eric on this trip back through the years to a simpler time when married male business owners chose to live with their much younger, handsome male employees in cramped apartments just because they wanted to save on rent. (Yeah, sure, dudes.) A more peaceful time when sleeping with your relatives was as simple as having a little cosmetic surgery, and Chevrolets were considered c...