DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Apr
3
 
 
Nearly four years removed from a near-fatal car wreck, Tracy Morgan is newly freed from 15 years of other trials and tribulations as the front-and-center star of a bold new TBS sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
ABC’s last announced new series of the season has a Lost vibe without the initial scope or thrill of discovery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
Steven Bochco occasionally would give an inch, but only if you first gave him a mile. Perhaps that’s a stretch, but here’s a guy who gave a damn...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
30
 
 
Analyzing the whys and wherefores of Roseanne’s mega-ratings splash on ABC Tuesday night apparently is the solemn duty of every TV critic and political pundit in your land/my land...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
30
 
 
The sixth and final season of FX’s The Americans could also be called, or at least subtitled, Communist vs. Capitalist. Or more specifically, Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) vs. her husband, Philip (Matthew Rhys)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
28
 
 
Disney-owned ABC is the polar opposite of NBC when it comes to mom, dad, and the kids comedies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
27
 
 
As did NBC’s Will & Grace revival, ABC’s second coming of Roseanne (Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. ET) unburdens itself of the polarizing presidential election in Episode 1 before putting a stop to it and moving on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
27
 
 
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin chose to call it “conscious uncoupling” when they busted up in 2014. ABC has a better idea -- the snappy new comedy series Splitting Up Together...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
25
 
 
Lest we entirely forget, Bill Hader is the guy who fired cat-powered laser guns with partner Andy Samberg in a fairly famous series of Saturday Night Live digital shorts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
25
 
 
In life, in death, on big screens and small, controversy goes hand in hand with the Gettys...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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