DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
May
6
 
 
The Starz network’s latest rebranding campaign -- “The Future is Female. Fearless. Fierce” -- both marches in step with the #MeToo movement and rips some pages from the longstanding Lifetime playbook...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
3
 
 
The man who isn’t there, unfortunately, is the one who stands out at HBO’s annual re-packaging of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
The detractors and defenders of Michelle Wolf continue to pile up like a chain collision on a slippery freeway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
25
 
 
The show that flipped the switch for Hulu has returned under its own full power...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
23
 
 
Vincent Van Gogh got a movie and Kirk Douglas an Oscar nomination for playing him in Lust For Life. The same goes for Jackson Pollock and Ed Harris in Pollock...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
22
 
 
It’s again easy to get lost in HBO’s Westworld, both from a total absorption standpoint and in trying to deduce what possibly, or impossibly, is going on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
17
 
 
Believe it or not, these are unprecedented times of stability, familiarity, and continuity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
14
 
 
It can be disconcerting to those of us who have reached a certain age. In truth, though, there’s no denying that the life and times of Elvis Presley have become ancient history to a majority of Americans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
13
 
 
The Season of the Reboot now has a reboot that itself was rebuilt from the very start. (Try saying that fast ten times.)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
7
 
 
Having dispensed with cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn, death-dealing Dr. Jack Kevorkian and convicted murderer Phil Spector, HBO’s most famous repertory player is back with another real-life portrayal -- and also with the TV performance of the year thus far...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Ed Bark

Since 2006, Ed Bark's local and national TV stories and observations have been showcased on his pioneering website, www.unclebarky.com.  For 26 years before that, he was TV critic for the Dallas Morning News. He's a past president of the Television Critics Association, and for seven years served on the national Peabody Awards board.

 
 
 
 

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