DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

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...

In this new edition of WHAT'S SCIENCE?, Eric takes a conspiracy-driven trip to the moon that never quite sticks the lunar landing. Or anything else, for that matter. Meanwhile, Christopher tries to keep track of the hundreds of names that have been given to mysterious giants throughout the centuries, and ultimately puts his pen down somewhere around name #342. Welcome to the world of FORBIDDEN MYS...

A twenty-minute TV show with a fifteen minute opening theme song! One male strip club re-enactment played over and over and over and over (and over) again! An "adult film superstar" Christopher and Eric have never heard of! It's an episode packed with True Crime TV Club firsts as Christopher and Eric warily slide their dollar bills into the sweaty G-string of  Season 1, Episode 8 of  YOUNG, HOT &...

HBO's documentary series I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK paints a powerful portrait of the obsessions that inspired and consumed Michelle McNamara. Her work was pivotal to identifying The Golden State Killer. But in the end, a different and more insidious killer claimed McNamara's life. Christopher and Eric go on a deep dive into the dark, as they take an honest look at the close kinship shared by inspir...

A terrible storm. A gorgeous couple poised to begin an exciting new life. Enough real crime scene video to give you the creeps. And then some more crime scene video on top of that. In their dark salute to hurricane season, Christopher and Eric serve up Season 1, Episode 3 of AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, entitled "Paradise Lost".  When Mike and Missy MacIvor are found brutally murdered in their new home in...

Christopher and Eric put down their magnifying glasses and pick up their Botox needles so they can get rid of all the furrows in their brows they developed after sitting through these alleged trips into the paranormal. Eric breaks down Season 2, Episode 6 of FORBIDDEN HISTORY, entitled "Bloodlust: Real Vampires". It sheds plenty of blood, for sure. But no one seems that interested in drinking it....

Christopher’s third and latest offering in his Burning Girl book series unfolds in Texas. To celebrate the release of BLOOD VICTORY, Christopher and Eric revisit the sordid mysteries of a small Texas town that's fairly free of chainsaws, but home to one blood-soaked axe murderer. In Season 2, Episode 3 of THE 1980's, THE DEADLIEST DECADE, entitled "Friday The 13th", we meet mild mannered married c...

Inspired by the first episode of HBO's documentary series I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, Christopher and Eric channel their inner Michelle McNamara, the citizen detective who helped crack The Golden State Killer case, and take to the internet to discover all they can about two real life mysteries that have obsessed them for years. For Eric, it's a mysterious Santa Barbara kidnapping with strange sexual...

It's some parents' worst nightmare, and in the early 2000's it was every cable news network's favorite kind of story. A missing young white woman whose disappearance is shrouded in mystery and suspicion. But the Natalee Holloway case took more twists than most. It even made a pit stop for a little retribution. As your hosts serve up Episode 12 from season 3 of VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, find out wh...

Something tells Christopher and Eric that big summer vacation you had planned for 2020 isn't going to work out. So why not take a walk down memory lane and relive some of those summers when you felt safe going outside without protective gear and a pocket full of experimental (and non-recreational) drugs? On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page we asked you to share your happiest summer memories,...

Christopher and Eric take you back to the very unfriendly skies of 1956 and a  murder that changed the modern conception of human evil - at 30,000 feet! Your intrepid flat screen detectives visit the series A CRIME TO REMEMBER, Episode 4, Season 1, where they discover that sometimes even the most hideous acts of mass murder are caused by the simplest (and darkest) of human motives. What happened a...