Frederic Raphael — American Writer born on August 14, 1931,

Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist... (wikipedia)

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.