DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

There's no murder or kidnapping or child abduction in this installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club, but BRIDEGROOM took Christopher and Eric's breath away just the same. It's 2011, and the Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage ruling is still two years away. When tragedy strikes the passionate relationship between Shane Crone and a young singer named Tom Bridegroom it's hard not t...

When Eric Shaw Quinn submitted his comedic novel about gay parenting to publishers in the 1990's, many were shocked. One editor dismissed SAY UNCLE by saying "You and I simply don't see the world in the same way, Mr. Quinn." Today, such words could get you cancelled and gay parenting has gained such wide acceptance as to be common place. But how much progress have we truly made when it comes to de...

We asked, you answered. As Pride month continues here at The TDPS Network, we headed to The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page and asked you to tell us about your gay heroes. They could be living or dead, real or fictional, so long as they inspired you to be your most authentic self, regardless of your own sexual orientation. Christopher and Eric offer up their answers as well in this lively salute...

Christopher and Eric launch their Pride Month episodes with a True Crime TV Club dedicated to the slaying of a nightclub owner who helped found one of South Africa's most vibrant gay communities, serving up "Murder In Cape Town: Who Killed Bruno Bronn?" from the Real Stories You Tube Channel. When Bruno Bronn was found murdered by his housekeeper in 2012, his friends and co-workers were sent reeli...

Join Christopher and Eric as they trek into the primeval redwood forests of Northern California in search of a monster. True Crime Special Edition is a super-sized True Crime TV Club that serves up an entire multi-episode series in a single podcast episode. Here, your hosts tackle the Hulu Original series "Sasquatch", in which an intrepid journalist enters a labyrinth of illegal marijuana growers,...

Something tells us this isn't what they mean by "love, Italian style"! Or is it? Bone up on your fashion trivia before the Lady Gaga and Adam Driver film inspired by this true crime story hits screens. Patrizia Reggiani married her way into one of Italy's most prominent fashion families. But did she resort to murder to avoid being banished from the House of Gucci forever? Well, it all depends on w...

The jab. The shot. The way forward. Whatever you're calling it, the COVID-19 vaccines are opening up our world again. Christopher and Eric celebrate their own vaccinations by asking you, our beloved Party People, what you plan to do once you're fully vaccinated and free to go out in the world again. But more importantly, is it fully vaccinated or fully vested? It's been a long, dark year, and then...

The terrifyingly toxic relationship between teenager Gypsy Rose Blancharde and her mother-from-hell Dee Dee has been the fodder for countless true crime specials and even a limited television series featuring Hollywood stars. So what does one of the world's most successful thriller novelists have to say about it? Christopher and Eric serve up an episode of JAMES PATTERSON'S MURDER IS FOREVER entit...

You remember where you were. You remember exactly what you were doing. Afterwards, your world seemed forever changed. A recent #TrueCrimeTVClub covering the 1994 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City inspired a discussion on our Facebook page about the news stories that changed and traumatized us. Christopher and Eric discuss your responses, as well as their own life altering mom...

Christopher and Eric's ongoing discussion of the brutal, 30-year old unsolved homicide of gay adult film actor William "Billy" Newton (aka Billy London) hasn't just drawn the attention of the LAPD homicide detective in charge of the case (see Episode 63), it's also stirred the interest of acclaimed documentarian Rachel Mason. Her beloved film CIRCUS OF BOOKS explored her childhood as the daughter...

What do Albert Einstein, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the sleepy beach town of Santa Cruz, California have in common? Nothing. Unless you enter the mind of serial killer Herbert Mullin, who beat a path of terror through the backwoods of Northern California in the early 70's. For the first time, Christopher and Eric head to You Tube for this installment of #TrueCrimeTVClub, servin...

We asked, you answered! On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, our #WednesdayQuestion is a chance for you to let your guard down with your hosts and fellow Party People. Recently, we presented all of you with the following query: "What's the most absurd and inaccurate piece of gossip anyone's ever told about you?" Your answers ranged from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. And naturally, Chris...

In a possible #TrueCrimeTVClub first, Christopher and Eric serve up a holiday-set crime that isn't a family massacre. But the brutal murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl inside of a Toledo, Ohio church on Holy Saturday is no less disturbing. In THE LAKE EERIE MURDERS, Season 2, Episode 4, entitled "Black Sabbath", Christopher and Eric go on a Gothic journey into faith, sadism and the dark secrets th...

#TrueCrimeTVClub gets super-sized with this #TrueCrimeSpecialEdition delivering all three episodes in the new Dateline NBC series, THE WIDOWER. Sit back and strap yourselves in as Christopher and Eric take you on a cross-country, generation-hopping saga of murder and deception that asks the question: Is the most dangerous place for a woman on Thomas Randolph's arm? It's a tale so complex you might...

In the latest #TrueCrimeTVClub, Christopher and Eric honor March Madness the only way they know how, with a true crime tale that kinda, sorta has something to do with basketball. When a former college athlete turned model turned film executive goes missing, the result is a twisted tale of deception and drugs that's as LA as palm trees and sun. And so is this episode of THE PERFECT MURDER, Season 5...

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...