Beverly Hills, CA -- Incessant political reporter/commentator/moderator Robert Costa hit a hotel ballroom stage on another natural high late Monday morning...

2017

Jul

KEN BURNS' 'VIETNAM', CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING, MAIN PBS SUBJECTS AT TCA By Ed Bark

For the past decade, Ken Burns and his producing partner, Lynn Novick, clung as best they could to what he calls "this bucking bronco", their Vietnam War documentary...

2017

Jul

TCA, DAY 4 -- FROM ELISABETH MOSS TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN By Ed Bark

A funny thing happened on the way to this forum...

2017

Jul

TCA, DAY 3 – A&E HAS LOWE, LIFETIME HAS SMART, AND HALLMARK HAS A WHOLE LOT OF CHRISTMAS By Ed Bark

It's no brag, but again just fact when Hallmark Channel promises the "premier gala" of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) "press tour."...

2017

Jul

"T" CHANNELS – TBS, TRUTV, TNT – ROLL OUT UPCOMING SHOWS AT TCA By Ed Bark

Step right up to a sprawling, eclectic batch of TBS/TruTV/TNT presentations squeezed into a morning bloc Thursday during Turner Networks' no-space-wasted turn at the TCA summer "press tour"...

2017

Jul

THE TCA PRESS TOUR: A DAY WITH LARRY DAVID...AND SERIAL KILLERS By Ed Bark

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The people at HBO aren't dummies. So they saved Larry David for last, Wednesday, during a three-hour cavalcade of panels...

2017

Jul

'MIDNIGHT, TEXAS' IS ANOTHER SUPERNATURAL SPIN FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'TRUE BLOOD' By Ed Bark

HBO’s True Blood has bled out, but the author whose books inspired it has gotten another network to bite with her latest other-worldly mash-up...

2017

Jul

NETFLIX'S ‘OZARK’ FOLLOWS THE MONEY WHILE JASON BATEMAN'S CAREER TAKES A NEW PATH By Ed Bark

Money laundering is at the root of most evil in Netflix’s Ozark, whose various spin cycles leave no one spotless...

2017

Jul

'SNL' AND 'WESTWORLD' LEAD EMMY NOMINEES By Ed Bark

Saturday Night Live makes Donald Trump grate -- again and again. Thursday’s 69th annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations were further evidence that his presidency has been very good for shows and performers that lampoon it.

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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.

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