DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the hosts of Dinner Partners are total suckers for any true crime special that uses the word "sassy" in the narration more than once. Such is the case with second episode of the second season of SOUTHERN FRIED HOMICIDE, portentously entitled "Romance Is Dead". Dirty Sexy Money Month continues with a toxic blend of all three ingredients. Being the mayor of a small South Carolina town can make you a lot of enemies. Now add in being it's pre-eminent lawyer and landlord and the list of suspects in your violent and untimely demise only gets longer. But is the real culprit in this tale of pain pill addicted ambitious shop owners and mouthy confidential informants closer to home? This year, Eric's best birthday present is that he lives a safe distance from South Carolina.

Sometimes the dirtiest money is the kind that only exists in one man's imagination. That's the case in this new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club. Dirty Sexy Money Month continues, a month long birthday celebration for both of your hosts. True crime TV series VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL is the gift that keeps on giving, and episode 2 of season 5, "The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rockefeller" has all the ingredients your hosts love to serve. Deceit, old money, long cons and shrewd detective work by law enforcement and journalists alike. This saga stretches from an affluent Southern California suburb to the halls of high finance in New York City to an Alpine village in Germany. By the time you've made the trip, you'll be amazed one man could get away with so much. Christopher and Eric sure were.

March is Birthday Month for Christopher and Eric and so we're spending this month of episodes serving up the things they love most — Dirty Sexy Money. Not necessarily in that order, but usually in combination. What better way to kick off a birthday celebration than with a surprise visit from one of their favorite TV hosts of all time? After hearing their salacious True Crime TV Club serving of his true crime confection THE PRINCE, THE WHIZ KID AND THE MILLIONAIRE on Episode 317, famed DATELINE host Josh Mankiewicz reached out and asked to visit the Dinner Partners studio in West Hollywood so he could discuss this unforgettable real life tale of gay con men, murderers and chain smoking Palm Springs gossip columnists. He agrees — it's the Gayest Dateline Ever! After forcing him to endure strict security protocols to ensure that he was, indeed, Josh Mankiewicz, your hosts were overjoyed to welcome him. Not only do they discuss the very colorful cast of characters on the DATELINE episode in question, they talk about what goes into making the most well-known and highly regarded true crime television series on the planet. And yes, they remembered to take a picture with him.

Bromance Month goes dark again — really dark — with this new look at a hideous, landmark serial killing case, the first of its kind to be covered by national media as body after body was discovered inside a sweltering boat shed baking in the merciless heat of Houston Texas. In THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE, psychologist Katherine Ramsland — who also wrote a biography of Christopher's mother — interviews the imprisoned accomplice to Dean Corll, the so-called Candyman Killer, who tortured, murdered and raped young men throughout Texas in the 1960's. Was Wayne Henley a willing accomplice and a budding serial killer himself?  Or was he pitched into a state of "temporary psychopathy" by mean circumstances, a broken home and a ruthless killer and sadist who kept him in a state of fear?

In which Christopher and Eric lose their collective minds and join the delirious, global freakout over the groundbreaking, generation-defining series, HEATED RIVALRY. They had no idea that when one of our Very Important Party People showed up in their VIPP Facebook group --sign up now-- talking about a "puck and **ck" show coming to Canadian television most of the planet would soon be in its firm, confident grip. Christopher and Eric dish on hot hockey players, MM romance, their own super gay books as well the geniuses that are Rachel Reid and Jacob Tierney.  Is it still a bromance if they kiss? Bromance Month continues with this spicy Valentine.

Bromance Month continues with the second in our two part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER in which last week's cliffhanger ending gives way to a gunslinging treasure hunt, small town style. As Christopher and Eric serve up the final two episodes of the series, the bodies keep dropping and the skeletons keep coming out of the closet. Meanwhile, your hosts have questions ranging from the urgent to the mundane. Where did the victim's precious gold bars go? Who sabotaged the vintage cars at the Pioneer Day Parade? Why didn't one of the only gays in town spot the gay twist that defined this bonkers tale? And most importantly, in Eric's view, why didn't the police focus on the potential suspects who most benefited from this crime?  You'll never look at turkey pot pie the same way again.

Bromance Month begins in a rugged, mountainous American state about which host Eric Shaw Quinn has some controversial opinions relating to altitude, oxygen uptake and mental health. In part 1 of their the two-part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER, Christopher and Eric deliver episode 1 of the three episode series featuring dueling morticians, missed lunch dates, lesbian moms, abusive sons and a cliffhanger ending that will leave you gasping for some of that thin mountain air and the revelations of Part II. Keep your oxygen masks handy.

Let's just say this is the deepest of the deep fried episodes of DATELINE you'll ever find, and Christopher and Eric can think of no more fitting an end to Hot Dateline Month than this grease-poppin', wife-hoppin' installment. (Trigger warning. Given their own illustrious ancestries, your hosts will be using the term "white trash" as much as they damn well feel like, thank you very much ) There are extramarital shenanigans inside of an exterminator's truck in the courthouse parking lot. Also, a pivotal piece of evidence involves French fries. Hot ones. Need we say more? Welcome to Morris, Alabama where we're told everything is about church. Sure, Morris.

Hot Dateline Month has delivered sultry swaying palms and bleak Montana highways. Now it's time to head to an affluent Midwestern suburb where  — wait for it! — a seemingly idyllic marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. You know it's going to be a doozy when the narration begins by describing the episode as "One of the strangest stories we've ever had on DATELINE." Enter episode 4 of season 29, entitled "Sex, Lies And Murder" where you'll meet Jane and Bob Bashara, the couple who has it all — including a semi-secret BDSM dungeon Bob keeps in the basement of one of his rental properties. And does this case hinge on the ick-factor-disapproval of suburban sensibilities? On this particular question, Christopher and Eric aren't sure they agree.

Hot Dateline Month continues with this breakneck chase down the long dark highway of mental illness. Episode 16 of season 31, entitled "On A Dark, Deserted Highway", begins decades before the terrifying police pursuit that gives this episode its name. It’s the dark saga of a tormented man whose twisted actions towards his wives and loved ones should have resulted in his confinement and treatment years before he went on a deadly shooting spree and high speed chase on a peaceful Montana night. How does one man end up turning against the very system that allowed his crimes to go unchecked for years?  That's the question Christopher and Eric wrestle with in this truly disturbing installment of one of their favorite true crime shows.