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

 
 
 
 
 
2016
Jan
7
 
 
Via the miracle of a remote control button push, viewers can segue Thursday night from a glam Jennifer Lopez as an American Idol judge to a battered, weepy one in the opening scene of NBC’s Shades of Blue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
6
 
 
Cable network series, particularly dramas, were seriously challenged to measure up to the broadcast network counterparts. Now it’s a rarity when old-line networks equal or exceed the best that cable or streamers have been pouring out in abundance. ABC's Season 2 of American Crime is an exception to those new rules...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
4
 
 
HBO’s recent The Jinx and Neflix’s current Making a Murderer are both kindred spirits and polar opposites in the non-fiction, “true crime” genre...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
3
 
 
Dear Abbey: First and foremost, you have given splendid service, providing PBS with a badly needed big Moby of a show since first gracing these shores in January 2011...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
3
 
 
Amid copious alcohol consumption and “jobs” that add up to less than nothing, three misfit male roommates sort of strive to make something of themselves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
1
 
 
This one’s been idling for a while after being announced long before Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump injected his views on illegal immigration and how he’d stop it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
13
 
 
It’s the time for year-end lists. And for the fourth time, HitFix.com has surveyed 53 TV critics on their choices for the Top 10 overall and new TV series of 2015... This is an increasingly vexing task, given the wealth of drama and comedy series on broadcast, cable and streaming services...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
12
 
 
Star Wars never would have gotten off the ground had it started this incomprehensibly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
11
 
 
Jessica Jones is endowed with super strength and the ability to fly but is very much out of uniform and in a funk for her Season One escapades on Netflix...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
8
 
 
Does the name Danny Kaye ring a bell? Ring-a-ding-ding, it should during this holiday season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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