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

 
 
 
 
 
2016
Oct
2
 
 
HBO’s much hyped and hoped for NEXT BIG THING shares some common ground with The Truman Show, Groundhog Day, and even the weekly “they killed Kenny” snippets from Southpark...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
30
 
 
TV’s latest time-travel series begins its limited present-day activities with a whopper. Only it’s completely true, according to latter day accounts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
10
 
 
Does a “hybrid live-action/animated comedy” need to be more or less brilliant from the start to succeed? Well, it really helps...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Sep
8
 
 
Divorced Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon) fights most of her battles on the domestic front in FX’s wonderfully biting Better Things...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
24
 
 
Having turned Cleveland into a championship city after a 52-year drought, LeBron James now goes about the business of building up downtrodden neighborhoods...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
23
 
 
“All the world’s a stage,” a dude named William Shakespeare famously wrote. But The Bard surely wouldn’t have envisioned or countenanced NBC’s depositing of Henry Winkler, William Shatner, George Foreman and Terry Bradshaw in Tokyo for “an adventure for all ages.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
12
 
 
The Summer Olympics are still building and drawing big audiences for NBC. So there’s been a respite from significant new program premieres -- unless you’re the entity that never sleeps...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
6
 
 
Its ratings remain a closely guarded, unsolved mystery. And where all its money comes from is still anyone’s guess. In the end, though, it’s the product that shines through....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
3
 
 
TV critic David Zurawik is of the opinion that Hillary Clinton is “the worst TV candidate since Richard Nixon.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
1
 
 

Meet the Donors likely won’t remedy a thing. But as an up-close look at some of the country’s biggest political givers and takers, it’s something of an instant post-convention classic...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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