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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2021

Jan

FROM 2010: LARRY SAYS "SO LONG" WITH HELP FROM A-LIST CELEBRITY GAGGLE By Ed Bark

His last edition of CNN's Larry King Live provided ready-made news in itself...

2020

Mar

A CHAT WITH UNCLE MILTIE By Ed Bark

Forty-plus years of covering television have yielded countless close encounters with stars of the first magnitude. Many are now deceased, but their bodies of work still breathe...

2020

Feb

'HUNTERS' TAKES A FEW UNUSUAL TURNS, BUT THE PREMISE AND CHILLS ARE WORTH INVESTIGATING By Ed Bark

Promos for Hunters seem to be nearly as plentiful as ads for the lately besieged presidential campaign of Michael "Mike" Bloomberg...

2020

Feb

ROBERT CONRAD: THE TOUGH GUY AND HIS DISTASTE OF TELEVISION CRITICS By Ed Bark

Robert Conrad didn't mind playing rough, both physically on-screen and verbally with TV critics who found fault with his shows...

2020

Jan

REMEMBERING JIM LEHRER AND KOBE BRYANT By Ed Bark

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ed Bark recalls interviewing Jim Lehrer and Kobe Bryant, both of whom we lost within the last week...

2020

Jan

UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES OF TV LEGENDS OFF THE SMALL SCREEN By Ed Bark

Forty-plus years of covering television have yielded countless close encounters with stars of the first magnitude. Many are now deceased, but their bodies of work still breathe...

2020

Jan

ED BARK'S 'UNCLEBARKY.COM' CANCELS ITSELF, GOES INTRO RERUNS By Ed Bark

Ed Bark finally has written his farewell column. He didn't get a chance in 2006 when he and the Dallas Morning News parted ways leading to the launch of Unclebarky.com. TVWW premiered the following year under similar circumstances...

2020

Jan

FOX'S 'DEPUTY' LOOKS BULLETPROOF ON A NETWORK THAT'S LATELY ROLLING By Ed Bark

Fox lately has out-gamed its three main broadcast network rivals in ringing out the old and replenishing its prime-time schedule with new audience-grabbers...

2019

Dec

EBENEZER'S REDEMPTION IS A LONG, LONG TIME COMING IN FX'S ILL-CONCEIVED 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' By Ed Bark

Literature's most awakened central character finds himself amid a darkly "woke" re-imagining of his misdeeds in TV's latest adaptation of A Christmas Carol...

2019

Dec

FOX'S 'THE MOODYS' SERVES UP A CHRISTMAS OF DISCOMFORT AND JOY By Ed Bark

Put caustic Denis Leary amid holiday surroundings, and you won’t come away with any Hallmark goo on you. Well, maybe just a little...

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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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