DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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GERALD JORDAN

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2014
Jul
19
 
 
Single-cam vs. multi-cam... CBS won't have any single-cam comedies on its schedule in the coming season. NBC will be without any multi-cams this fall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
16
 
 
BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- Don't think too deeply about Sharknado -- as if that were even a remote possibility...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
13
 
 
2002: A Breaking Bad time and space odyssey. "I hesitate to say it, but it is indeed a period piece," creator and co-executive producer Vince Gilligan said Friday of AMC's Better Call Saul. "I can't believe it myself..."
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
10
 
 
The 66th Primetime Emmy Award nominations, announced Thursday during the early stages of summer's Television Critics Association "press tour,"  were a bigger mishmash than ever of delivery systems and ill-fitting categories...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
9
 
 
Talk Swedish to me, baby. NBC’s new summertime comedy plus, Welcome to Sweden, does so at length in most of its 10 episodes. The network sent all of them for review, and I kept watching until the supply was exhausted...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jul
8
 
 
As did Under the Dome at this time last year, CBS’s second big summertime splash opens with an impressive and involving first chapter... Extant, a futuristic, 13-episode drama starring Halle Berry as a very vexed astronaut, looks to be more firmly grounded...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jun
8
 
 
TNT’s latest crime drama, Murder in the First, is straight-ahead Steven Bochco. Which begs the question: Does the now 70-year-old maestro behind Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue still have some pop? Well, yes, he does...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
31
 
 
IBM is AMC’s new villain in residence, having loomed forebodingly over this spring’s Mad Men episodes and now looking even more sinister in the network's new Halt and Catch Fire...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
28
 
 
Mad Men shut down until next spring with the eventful Sunday, May 25th episode, subtitled “Waterloo.” Here are 10 takeaways...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
May
26
 
 
Her character looked pretty dead near the end of Tuesday’s very eventful and suitably bizarre Fargo episode, subtitled “Buridan’s Ass.” But although she can’t say quite how yet, Allison Tolman assures fans of the series that deputy Molly Solverson will remain vertical...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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