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Contributors Archive

2015

Jan

SEND IN THE FROWNS: 'GIRLS' IS BACK FOR SEASON 4 By Ed Bark

Season 4 of HBO’s Girls opens with a shocker of a scene. At dinner with her oft-scolding parents, Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) is giggly, even giddy. Don’t get used to it...

2015

Jan

HBO'S 'TOGETHERNESS' GRADUALLY LOSES ITS WAY (BUT THERE'S ALWAYS AMANDA PEET) By Ed Bark

For quite a while, HBO’s Togetherness looks as though it could be exceptional. But halfway through, in an episode subtitled “Kick the Can,” it begins to falter and lose its way...

2015

Jan

FOX'S 'EMPIRE' PROVIDES AN ALL TOO RARE CHANCE FOR A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK CAST TO BRING ON THE DRAMA By Ed Bark

Never mind all the machinations and deceptions involved in orchestrating the next big hit record on Empire. What fourth place Fox really needs is the next big hit TV series... So it’s poured on the promotion for this Lee Daniels-created saga...

2015

Jan

ABC GOES MEDIEVAL -- AND MUSICAL -- IN FUNNY, SPIRITED 'GALAVANT' By Ed Bark

Galavant, an eight-episode musical comedy with back-to-back half hours on Sundays through January, may have problems gaining ratings traction. But that won’t be for lack of trying -- or entertainment value...

2014

Dec

GOLDEN GLOBE TV NOMINATIONS AGAIN ARE NOTHING TO SCOFF AT By Ed Bark

That’s the underlying question whenever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces its annual Golden Globes nominations. Thursday morning’s 72nd batch of nominees was a combination of fresh, bold choices and the usual suspects...

2014

Nov

'GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE' IS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN AS BRAVO'S FIRST ORIGINAL SCRIPTED SERIES By Ed Bark

Bravo’s first original scripted series arrives 12 years after NBC took control of the onetime fine arts network and later began fouling it with an onslaught of Real Housewives series. Turns out it was well worth the wait...

2014

Nov

ABC ANCHOR DAVID MUIR: FROM PIZZA CHEF TO MUPPETS INTERVIEW, IT'S ALL IN THE NIGHT'S NEWS By Ed Bark

ABC’s David Muir is a TV natural, in his element alone at a news desk but more so when out and about doing things that networks anchors just didn’t used to do...

2014

Nov

NBC'S 'STATE OF AFFAIRS' ARRIVES IN A BAD STATE By Ed Bark

It’s a sad state of affairs in State of Affairs for CIA presidential briefer Charleston “Charlie” Tucker. Her fiancé died one year ago during a special ops mission gone bad in Kabul. She was also present and saw it happen...

2014

Oct

'OLIVE KITTERIDGE' GIVES HBO ANOTHER EMMY-WORTHY GEM By Ed Bark

Olive Kitteridge...contains itself within a four-hour miniseries -- and is better for it. The miniseries basically spans 25 years, beginning with Olive (Frances McDormand) preparing to end it all before backtracking a quarter-century

2014

Oct

MORE COMIC BOOKERY ON NBC'S WHAM, BAM AND OFT-BEFUDDLING 'CONSTANTINE' By Ed Bark

Anything can happen and an awful lot does in NBC’s first episode of Constantine. Friday’s crazily paced, head-spinning premiere may be elementary to those familiar with the Hellblazer DC Comics series on which it’s based. Most viewers won’t be so versed...

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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.