Here’s the minority report from CNN’s three-hour Republican presidential candidate “town hall” meeting Tuesday night. There weren’t any, despite the downtown Milwaukee venue...

2016

Mar

R.I.P. PATTY DUKE: DEC. 14, 1946 TO MARCH 29, 2016 By Ed Bark

Anna Marie “Patty” Duke won an Oscar and three Emmys, had four husbands and spent much of her adult life trying to make peace with a very traumatic childhood...

2016

Mar

R.I.P GARRY SHANDLING: NOVEMBER 29, 1949 TO MARCH 24, 2016 By Ed Bark

Garry Shandling thought a lot about his craft, fretted a lot about how people would perceive and receive him. But be assured of this. His death Thursday at age 66 silenced one of the great comedic minds of the last quarter century...

2016

Mar

‘THE CATCH’ GIVES MIREILLE ENOS A COMPLETE MAKEOVER AND SHONDA RHIMES ANOTHER ABC VEHICLE TO DRIVE By Ed Bark

Mireille Enos seldom if ever let a smile be her umbrella in AMC’s The Killing, even during those drenching, ever-present rainstorms. That all changes in the early stages of ABC’s very modern and stylish The Catch...

2016

Mar

NBC'S 'HEARTBEAT' NEEDS TO ADJUST ITS MEDS By Ed Bark

Medical dramas have had mini-resurgence this season with decent ratings for newcomers Code Black (CBS) and Chicago Med (NBC). The Peacock’s Heartbeat (9 p.m. ET Tuesday) could use a chill pill, though...

2016

Mar

QUALITY TO BURN: 'THE AMERICANS' RETURNS TO FX By Ed Bark

Lavishly praised by TV critics but still ludicrously ignored by major awards bodies, FX’s The Americans if anything is better than ever in the early stages of Season 4...

2016

Mar

WARBURTON'S FORTE GETS A NICE WORKOUT IN NBC'S 'CROWDED' By Ed Bark

Watching and listening to Patrick Warburton snap off deadpan one-liners can be a saving grace of any not-so-great sitcom. It also helps to have talented Carrie Preston in the house as Warburton’s newest TV wife...

2016

Mar

WGN AMERICA'S 'UNDERGROUND' IS AN IMPERFECT BUT WORTHY DRAMA SET IN A VERY IMPERFECT WORLD By Ed Bark

WGN America, official network of the one-word, scripted drama series, is following Salem, the since canceled Manhattan and Outsiders with the pre-Civil War Underground...

2016

Mar

CNN CONTINUES TO BE THE NEWS LEADER IN GIVING DONALD TRUMP FREE PASSES By Ed Bark

No network has been more slavish in its coverage of Donald Trump than CNN. That’s probably stating the obvious at this point, even though rival networks certainly haven’t scrimped on the free time they’ve given the oft-bombastic Republican Party frontrunner...

2016

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CUBA GOODING, JR. TALKS 'THE PEOPLE V. OJ SIMPSON' AND WHAT LED HIM TO IT By Ed Bark

Twenty years ago, Cuba Gooding, Jr. won a best supporting actor Oscar as pro football receiver Rod “Show me the money” Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. He followed that up with another hit feature film, 1997’s As Good As It Gets...

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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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