It can be hard to cut through the vast television landscape to find the gems that are worth watching.

Bob Thompson, the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, and a professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, joins Boston Public Radio every week to suggest his takes on the best and the worst that TV has to offer.

This week, Thompson picked the New York Times story behind TV painter Bob Ross's missing paintingsas his best of the week, CBS' "Love Island" remake for his worst of the week, and BBC America's "Moon Landing Live" as his what to watch.