Ben Mankiewicz

Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz born March 25 1967 is an American television journalist and host for Turner Classic Movies TCM He is a progressive political commentator for The Young Turks He has served as a film critic for the 20082009 season for the TV program At the Movies and the web series What the Flick A descendant of the Mankiewicz family Ben Mankiewicz graduated from Tufts University and earned a masters degree from Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism He subsequently worked as a news reporter and anchor first for WCSCTV in Charleston South Carolina and later for WAMI in Miami Mankiewicz left news journalism and auditioned as a television host for Turner Classic Movies Mankiewicz was hired in 2003 as an afternoon weekend host second to Robert Osborne who was the channels primetime host In 2013 for health reasons Osborne delegated weekday primetime hosting appearances to Mankiewicz In 2017 Osborne died at the age of 84 and Mankiewicz became the networks primetime host Additionally he hosts the TCMproduced podcast series The Plot Thickens and Talking Pictures Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Mankiewicz licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia