DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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MIKE HUGHES

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GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Oct
12
 
 
Both lavish and languid, the first three installments of Amazon Prime’s The Romanoffs are mostly bereft of the snap, pop, and sizzle of Mad Men. Their overriding creative force is one and the same — fastidious Matthew Weiner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
10
 
 
Racial dynamics are a big part of The CW’s new All American. But so are abs, pecs, and high school football players aggressively sporting them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
28
 
 
New vistas in semi-senility are upon us in Fox’s The Cool Kids which is set in a retirement home and somehow steers clear of a Depends joke in Friday’s premiere...There’s ample cringe-worthy bawdiness, though...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
The past year’s two other cast reunion reboots of note, Will & Grace and Roseanne, fired up the Donald Trump jokes in their first episodes before turning to other matters in subsequent episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
 
 
The kids are more than all right, and the grownups aren’t bad either in the new sitcom Single Parents. So maybe ABC has something here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
 
 
Sometimes there’s no way around just stating the obvious. Which is: ABC very much wanted a This Is Us of its own. And the network thinks it has one in A Million Little Things...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
 
 
Another medical show is getting a shot in times when this enduring TV genre lately has amped up its vital signs again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
 
 
CBS’ latest crime series -- it has 13 this fall -- begins in a big and gripping way with chain explosions that decimate a Bronx housing project...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
Flight delays are all too frequent for today’s travelers. It’s bad enough being sardined into a coach seat in a virus-spreading tube full of fellow humanoids...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
CBS already has a black belt in reboots, remakes, re-imaginings or whatever else you’d like to label them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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