DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

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Assistant Editor

Contributors

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2018
Feb
11
 
 
We’re at the point where some critics are faulting Showtime’s Our Cartoon President for “humanizing” Donald Trump. Yeah, because that would be a disgrace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
11
 
 
Every once in a while, a character in a TV series unintendedly speaks volumes, disparagingly or otherwise, about the TV series he or she is in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
1
 
 
NBC is hot for this teacher, even if the title doesn’t readily suggest it’s a schoolhouse sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
29
 
 
Attention TV shoppers: Acorn TV’s Girlfriends in no way is a reboot of what just happened to be the same-named sitcom that lasted eight seasons on UPN and then The CW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
28
 
 
Better known lately as the face of those heavily exposed Farmers insurance ads, J. K. Simmons knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
26
 
 
Resurrecting onetime hit TV series -- either with the old cast or a brand new one -- may have gone from a fever pitch to a fanatical one with CBS’ announcement that Murphy Brown is coming back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
22
 
 
A famous children’s book author with a yen for younger men is murdered in her splendorous Summit, Utah home on New Year’s Eve. There’s ample blood but no body. So who did it and where’s the corpse?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
22
 
 
The serial killings are gruesome, the cops are corrupt and the gumshoes are dedicated but always up against it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
21
 
 
Amy Holden Jones, daughter of a doctor and co-creator/executive producer of Fox’s new The Resident, seems to know just what many TV critics are thinking...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
17
 
 
FX’s second American Crime Story entry could be far more accurately titled The Dissection of Andrew Cunanan...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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