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2013
Jun
11
ABC FAMILY'S 'TWISTED' A TEEN-CENTRIC 'RECTIFY' By Ed Bark
 
 
ABC Family's new series, Twisted, likely will quickly achieve fave rave status with its young target audience...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
8
TNT ROLLS OUT ANOTHER AMPERSAND-CENTRIC SERIES, 'KING & MAXWELL' By Ed Bark
 
 
Ampersands have been good business for TNT, so the third time around doesn’t even have to be a charm...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
USA'S 'GRACELAND' BATTLES CRIME AT THE BEACH By Ed Bark
 
 
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. USA Network's new drama Graceland is nothing to get all shook up about...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
3
'MISTRESSES' COMPLETE ABC'S "MAN CANDY MONDAY" By Ed Bark
 
 
The imminent arrival of ABC’s heavily teased “Man Candy Monday” dangles hopes for eventual Sonofabitch Sundays or Wanton Women Wednesdays...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
2
SEASON 3 OF 'THE KILLING': MORE DEAD BODIES IN A DEADENED REPRIEVE By Ed Bark
 
 
Season 3 of The Killing(s) is further proof that just one murder is like playing tiddlywinks in these ongoing TV times of Showtime’s Dexter, Fox’s The Following and NBC’s Hannibal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
26
LIBERACE TALKS ABOUT HIS 'PRIVATE WORLD' By Ed Bark
 
 
Show business had many flamboyant entertainers, but they couldn’t hold a candle, or a candelabra, to Liberace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
20
ABC'S 'MOTIVE': A CRIME DRAMA WITH A TWIST By Ed Bark
 
 
As a whodunit with the who already answered, Motive seems to have a clue about what it takes to carry on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
20
'THE GOODWIN GAMES' HAS NO CHANCE OF WINNING By Ed Bark
 
 
The Goodwin Games — from the creative team behind How I Met Your Mother — isn’t an Olympian comedy but it’s by no means an out-and-out clunker either...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
16
THE CW SCRAMBLES ITS SCHEDULE AND GOES SCI-FI By Ed Bark
 
 
The little CW network might as well go ahead and rename itself Syfy Junior. Four of its five new scripted series for next season are otherworldly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
15
CBS ADDS FOUR NEW COMEDIES FOR FALL By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS is amping up its comedy content, highlighted by a new Thursday night pairing of Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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.
 
 
New From TVWW

'Wilfred': Still Man's Best Fiend
By Eric Gould
 
 
 
 
'Sesame Street' Helps Kids Cope with Parents' Incarceration
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Live, from ‘Cleveland,’ It’s Wednesday Night!
By David Bianculli
 
 
 
 
ABC Family's 'Twisted' a Teen-centric 'Rectify'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
TNT Rolls Out Another Ampersand-centric Series, 'King & Maxwell'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

USA's 'Graceland' Battles Crime at the Beach
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
'Mistresses' Complete ABC's "Man Candy Monday"
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Jean Stapleton: 1923-2013
By David Bianculli
 
 
 
 
Season 3 of 'The Killing': More Dead Bodies in a Deadened Reprieve
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
'Treehouse Masters' Doesn't Get Off the Ground
By Eric Gould
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

1952: 'I've Got a Secret' Premieres
By David Bianculli
 
 
 
 

New This WWeek

The second season of TVWW fave Call The Midwife did not match the power and heights of Season One. But the series, which follows young British nurses in the early 1960s, thrives on its signature earnest charm as it goes deep into family drama.
This series documents the Louvre's study days, in which works by five major artists— including Rembrandt and Leonardo— are studied during restorations. From up close, we see the faint lines where the artist changed his mind, witness how time has ravaged the canvases, and debate the evidence that a master painted a particular work.
Ultra-quirky and solemn, the Rectify series of only six episodes followed an ex-con freed after 19 years on Death Row. Odd, squirmy and sometimes moving at a glacial, novel-like pace, it nevertheless is one of the more notable dramas, so far, of 2013.