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

 
 
 
 
 
2019
Mar
28
 
 
The onetime network of Cheers wants to drink to that again. Except that Ted Danson’s womanizing Sam Malone can’t get a liquor license anymore...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
27
 
 
Hungry for another vampire series or feature film? You’ll never have to wait for long...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
18
 
 
Marcia Clark just can’t or won’t let it go. The money’s too good...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
15
 
 
Unfulfilled and insecure, plus-sized Annie Easton has spent much of her life being thrown for losses...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
27
 
 
ABC clearly is very high on Whiskey Cavalier, even if Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t during his chainsaw massacre of the show’s very title during the network’s “upfront” presentation to advertisers last May...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
25
 
 
It’s been a while, but NBC once made a nice prime-time living by mixing espionage and one-liners in quippy/trippy series such as I Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Now it’s all a very serious business...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
19
 
 
The complexities of Sammy Davis Jr. run far deeper than that hug of Richard Nixon or those deferential, knee-slapping, “with your kind permission” appearances on a variety of talk shows...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
15
 
 
The benign egotism of Frasier Crane made Kelsey Grammer a TV superstar -- and he’s lately confirming that a reboot is getting closer to being a reality. But in the interim...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
5
 
 
Black Entertainment Television, longhand for BET, had its own Don Cornelius in Robert Johnson, who launched the network with his wife, Sheila, in 1980 and sold it to Viacom 20 years later for a reported $3 billion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
 
 
Chris Pine’s character regularly takes a beating, as does the overall believability of TNT’s ambitious but convoluted I Am the Night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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