DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Jun
21
 
 
From the creator of Castle, here’s another Castle -- only in reverse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
20
 
 
Still wearing well at age 63, Kevin Costner is comfortably taking on the kinds of roles that Clint Eastwood used to fall into...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
19
 
 
Spanning 30 years and drawn from the real-life romance of the principal executive producers, Love Is __ gives Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network what looks to be a durable drama with a sweet/spicy sauce...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
3
 
 
FX offers a case study in counter-programming with Sunday’s premiere of Pose (9 p.m. ET) opposite Game 2 of the NBA Finals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
1
 
 
How sweet it is to see a straight-ahead crime solving series starring a detective with no built-in superpowers, physical or otherwise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
31
 
 
It was a somber farewell to The Americans... Here are some explanations as to why it played out the way it did -- and whether there might be more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
 
 
Sci-fi traveling used to be -- and sometimes still is -- a lot more basic and easily grasped...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
 
 
In a jarring development, ABC has canceled Roseanne after the star of the show, Roseanne Barr, authored a since deleted tweet disparaging Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to President Barack Obama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
 
 
Hindsight is always 20/20, which happens to be the name of another ABC show... perhaps the network should have abided by that vintage Rolling Stones song: “Don’t play with me, ‘cause you’re playin’ with fire"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
28
 
 
Fittingly premiering on Memorial Day, HBO’s John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls affords him an opportunity to, in a sad sense, see his own obituary...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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