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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2019

Jun

AS THE CROWE FLIES, SO DOES SHOWTIME'S 'THE LOUDEST VOICE' By Ed Bark

Making up is hard to do – or so it would seem in turning Russell Crowe into Roger Ailes...

2019

Jun

NO NEW HEIGHTS BUT A STEADY CLIMB IN SHOWTIME'S 'CITY ON A HILL' By Ed Bark

A showy command performance by Kevin Bacon won’t be taking City on a Hill to new heights. It’s enough, however, to give Showtime another Ray Donovan in terms of watchable, serviceable, jut-jawed crime hours...

2019

Jun

THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT IN HBO'S EXCESSIVE 'EUPHORIA' By Ed Bark

A passing reference leaves its mark in Episode 3 of HBO’s aggressively graphic Euphoria...

2019

May

THE AIM IS PERFECT IN 'DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE' By Ed Bark

The abundant profanity remains in place. How could it not? This time, though, add equal parts poignancy...

2019

May

AMAZON PRIME'S 'GOOD OMENS' LOOKS GOOD, BUT DOESN'T PLAY WELL By Ed Bark

The End of the World is nigh – yet again...

2019

May

ONE MORE TIME: SEEING DEAD PEOPLE IN NBC'S 'THE INBETWEEN' By Ed Bark

There’s nothing new to look at here unless you’re among those who haven’t yet seen a TV series about a haunted woman who sees the dead and then aids or afflicts the living...

2019

May

'BATWOMAN' JOINS 'SUPERGIRL' IN THE CW'S FEMALE-POWERED NEW LINEUP By Ed Bark

The CW is still perceived as a tyke among the Big Four broadcasting networks. But it may have fall’s showiest newcomer in Batwoman, in which the crime-fighting lead character is gay and “still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend”...

2019

May

'CATCH-22' AGAIN ELUDES CAPTURE, BUT HULU'S SIX-PART MINISERIES MAKES A VERY GAME GO OF IT By Ed Bark

George Clooney recurrently loves a man in uniform, dating all the way back to Combat High, a super-obscure 1986 TV movie in which he played Maj. Biff Woods...

2019

May

FAMILIAR TV STARS REJOIN/JOIN CBS IN NEW 2019-20 LINEUP By Ed Bark

Former CBS sitcom stars Patricia Heaton and Billy Gardell are getting new whirls while a familiar face from cable’s FX, Walter Goggins, moves to a new address this fall...

2019

May

HBO'S 'WHAT'S MY NAME: MUHAMMAD ALI' IS IN THE RING AND IN HIS WORDS By Ed Bark

Weighing in at two hours, 40 minutes and airing in one sitting, HBO’s What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali, is as thrilling today as it was in his yesteryears...

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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.