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

 
 
 
 
 
2017
Nov
7
 
 
For the next seven Tuesdays and extending to just six days before Christmas, the National Geographic channel will bear arms with its most ambitious, expensive and heavily promoted venture to date...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
5
 
 
The old “misery loves company” axiom gets a stern test with Showtime’s SMILF (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
3
 
 
Abused by her drunken father and then brutalized in a women’s prison, Irish immigrant Grace Marks perhaps has gone mad in the process. Or might she be more or less completely sane -- or driven by a dual personality?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
2
 
 
WRITER’S NOTE: There are events of far larger import in New York City, but life goes on in network TV. To that end, a review of the newest offering from CBS…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
25
 
 
Frontline’s A to Z Vladimir Putin primer, affixed with the sexier title of Putin’s Revenge, is dutifully sober and cautionary without being particularly revelatory. That is, unless you’ve been paying no attention at all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
22
 
 
The horror, the horror . . . The Simpsons’ 28th Treehouse of Horror...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
18
 
 
It’s not going as planned for NBC. But for some of us, it’s going pretty much as expected...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
17
 
 
It’s hard to imagine the timing being much worse for a sitcom whose first episode finds two principal characters providing sexual favors in return for anticipated career advancements...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
17
 
 
Ron Livingston has made a series of strong impressions -- mostly on HBO -- in Band of Brothers, Sex and the City and Boardwalk Empire. Add the cult movie Office Space, a gift that keeps on giving...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
15
 
 
It’s an easy sell, and now even more so, to depict Hollywood as one big, soulless, immoral den of iniquity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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