DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Find out how this wrap up to Toxic Love Month almost became a second train wreck episode. (We're looking at you, Christopher.) Jasmine Fiore was determined to use her Playboy Playmate career as a stepping stone to a better life than the one in which her father abandoned their family and her mother struggled to make ends meet. So how did she end up horribly beaten, and mutilated and disposed of in...

Toxic Love Month gets a hint of sugar courtesy of you, our beloved Party People. On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, we asked you to share the most romantic thing anyone's ever done for you, and your answers inspired a lively discussion of the specialness of all relationships, including friendships. But before the confection turned too sweet, we brought in our wayward critic-at-large Jordan...

Toxic Love Month continues with the second in Christopher and Eric’s "true crime pairing" charting the long fall of one of the music industry's most influential producers. On this episode, they serve you a True Crime Movie time featuring David Mamet's version of the Phil Spector murder trial. PHIL SPECTOR was met with Emmy nominations when it debuted on HBO. But did its celebrated writer/director...

No one chronicled a Hollywood murder mystery better than storied writer Dominick Dunne, and no one serves up Hollywood scandal better than your hosts Christopher and Eric. The first in one of their "true crime pairings", this installment of True Crime TV Club serves up DOMINICK DUNNE'S POWER, PRIVILEGE AND JUSTICE, season 1, episode 1, entitled "Phil Spector'. What really happened on that night tw...

Movin' On Month continues and in typical, morbid Christopher and Eric fashion your hosts are celebrating with a special edition of True Crime TV Club that focuses on one of the most famous haunted house stories in American history. Who was the biggest victim of the Amityville Horror story? The beleaguered couple who claimed they were run out of their new home by demonic spirits? Or the young child...

Have you heard the news? Eric Shaw Quinn is moving into a home of his own and in true TDPS style your hosts are celebrating by focusing on the negative. On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, we asked our beloved Party People to share with us the worst living situations they ever endured — and how they escaped. The answers ranged from the hilarious, to the revolting to the deeply emotional. Als...

Movin' On Month continues! Eric Shaw Quinn's finally getting his own place. To celebrate, we're bringing you an all new True Crime TV Club that proves it's always better to live alone. Dorothea Puente seemed like a sweet, charitable old lady who took in boarders out of the kindness of her own heart.  Then came the disappearances. And the strange smells. And the stupefying agents. Christopher and E...

New year. Same Christopher and Eric. After a series of special encores, your hosts return with their first completely new episode of 2023. Join them for a tour of the new holiday traditions they're building in the wake of losing Christopher's beloved mother, Anne Rice. Christmas is what you make of it, and it turns out your hosts made plenty — and it included lots of Yorkshire pudding and even mor...

"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. Anne's book tour for PRINCE LESTAT took her all over North America, but it was in beautiful downtown Burbank where she stepped on stage...

"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. In 2014, Anne thrilled her legions of fans when she announced the return of her most beloved character, the vampire Lestat. PRINCE LESTA...

"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. Join us as we travel back in time to our very first live broadcast from the TDPS studio in West Hollywood where we're joined by our firs...

It's been one year since we lost our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice. As we remember this sad anniversary, we bring you a special encore presentation of one of our most emotional episodes. Recorded before a live audience at Colleen Hoover's Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas earlier this year, join Christopher and Eric, and their special guests, bestselling romance writers Lexi Blake and Xio A...

We're calling it the train wreck episode, and not just because the crime involved took place next to some railroad tracks. Listen to find out why this became the most chaotic installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club to date. Allegedly your hosts serve up an episode of a show called DEAD OF WINTER. Specifically, episode 5 of season 1. We think. We hope. One thing's for sure, madcap...

The brutal slaying of a prominent attorney's wife and son is only the beginning of this dark saga of murder, homophobia and corruption in South Carolina's Low Country. Your hosts — former southerners themselves — take a deep dive into this swampy, deadly soup by way of the HBO Max documentary series LOW COUNTRY: THE MURDAUGH DYNASTY. By the end, they have a possible theory of the case no one seems...

Smart British crime-solvers and gorgeous royal gowns. A riveting historical novel about one woman's search for revenge in earthquake ravaged San Francisco. It's all on the menu at Christopher and Eric's holiday time round up of their pop culture highlights from 2022. Belly up to the table as your hosts ladle out delicious servings of the TV shows they were most thankful for this year, along with t...

Where are the children? Some true crime stories reach out from the screen and grab you by the throat from the second you first read the headline. That's what happened to Christopher and Eric when the tale of one of the most evil mothers in history first started making headlines in 2019. Does the new Netflix series SINS OF OUR MOTHER reveal depths of Lori Vallow's delusional evil and religious fana...

Are Christopher and Eric really going to do an entire episode about daylight savings time? Not really. They're going to take an entire episode to spotlight how much they DESPISE daylight savings time. And apparently you do too, Party People, because you flooded our Facebook page with comments to that effect. If there's anything dimmer than daylight savings time itself, it's critic-at-large Jordan...

In the two years since your hosts Christopher and Eric started marking the Halloween season anniversary of young Billy Newton's gruesome and long unsolved murder, new witnesses and a potential suspects have emerged. For Christopher and Eric's first in studio interview, the LAPD homicide detective who inherited the case brings us an update on the current state of the investigation, and a new set of...

Are vampires real? Do werewolves enjoy their hairy gifts? Speaking of hair, would Christopher and Eric be able to recognize William Shatner in public if he didn't have his wig on? And why did William Shatner block Christopher on Twitter?! These are the thrilling, urgent and scientific questions your hosts tackle as they serve up episode 15 of THE UNXPLAINED, a show that mixes green screens and que...

As your hosts Christopher and Eric kick off the Halloween season, they turned to you, our beloved Party People, to hear about the scariest experience you ever had that couldn't be easily explained. Ghosts! Messages from the beyond! Strange figures walking in the woods. There are chills aplenty on this spooky new episode, thanks to your spine-tingling contributions on The Dinner Party Show's Facebo...

For years now, Eric Shaw Quinn has proclaimed that if Lyle and Erik Menendez had been women, there would be statues of them on the lawn of the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Today, as the Discovery ID documentary MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MISJUDGED makes clear, a growing movement of young people are starting to agree with your host. Do Lyle and Erik Menendez deserve to spend the rest of their life behind bars...

It's almost impossible to believe that our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice's 81st birthday is happening without her on this earth, but Christopher and Eric are sure she would have loved this tribute to one of her favorite subjects — tales of the paranormal — and one of her favorite films. To celebrate Anne's life and work, we asked you, our Party People, to share ghost stories of your own...

Eric searched the heavens for a True Crime TV Club that could mark the autumnal equinox and somehow we all ended up at a gym in Florida. Find out how we made the strange trip as your hosts serve up episode 2 of season 1 of KILLER BODS, entitled "Pride & Payback". What turned a gorgeous physical trainer to South Florida's elite into an agent of death and destruction? Was it oblivious corporate over...

Will the upcoming midterms be a referendum on the SCOTUS decision about abortion? Will a certain treasonous and psychotic former president's picks for office make the cut? Are you as sick of these questions as we are? Good. Because Christopher and Eric will largely ignore them as they focus their election season episode on a far less consequential and entirely hypothetical match up. Who would make...

Join the Party People and your hosts Eric and Christopher for the release of another steamy and emotional gay romance novel from Christopher's alter ego. SAPPHIRE SPRING, the second book in the Sapphire Cove series, deals with a topic many of us have experienced firsthand, high school bullying. And so we asked you this — What would your bully need to say or to do today to make up for the way they...