DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

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NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2012
Jul
28
 
 
Two of our critics had wildly different reactions to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Ed Bark, for example, was disappointed, and says it was "bungled"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
 
 
CBS This Morning taps chief White House Correspondent Norah O'Donnell to replace co-host Erica Hill...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
 
 
Given the enormous technical challenges ahead for NBC, you'd like to think that Thursday's teleconference with Olympics executive producer Jim Bell will be remembered as only an irksome glitch and not a bad omen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
26
 
 
CBS's 3: Yet another "journey of the heart" reality offering with three women looking for made-for-TV love...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
24
 
 
Sherman Hemsley, the broadly comic actor whose inimitable rants made The Jeffersons one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid '70s to mid '80s, died Tuesday at age 74...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
Major lapses in both taste and reporting inevitably follow the mass shootings that are becoming all too common in this country...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 
A batch of usual suspects — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, 30 Rock — again deservingly had their say while newcomers American Horror Story, Homeland, Girls and Hatfields & McCoys also broke through in a big way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
15
 
 
The Kennedys have been lionized and scandalized in virtually every way imaginable at this point. So why not take the Clintons for a small-screen spin?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
12
 
 
In back-to-back announcements, American Idol judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez announce they are leaving the long-running competition show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
6
 
 
TNT's string of fair to fairly good drama series continues with Perception, Eric McCormack's latest effort to make viewers see him in a new light...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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