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Contributors Archive

2019

Mar

ABBY'S MAKES IT BAR TIME AGAIN FOR NBC By Ed Bark

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

IT'S VAMPIRES FOR GRINS IN FX'S WINNING 'WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS' By Ed Bark

Hungry for another vampire series or feature film? You’ll never have to wait for long...

2019

Mar

MARCIA CLARK'S 'THE FIX' REKINDLES HER O.J. OBSESSIONS By Ed Bark

Marcia Clark just can’t or won’t let it go. The money’s too good...

2019

Mar

AIDY BRYANT PUTS HER BEST SELF FORWARD IN HULU'S FINELY TUNED 'SHRILL' By Ed Bark

Unfulfilled and insecure, plus-sized Annie Easton has spent much of her life being thrown for losses...

2019

Feb

'WHISKEY CAVALIER' GIVES ABC A SPIRITED INTERNATIONAL SPY CAPER By Ed Bark

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

NBC'S 'THE ENEMY WITHIN' DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A GRIP By Ed Bark

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

REHABBING SAMMY DAVIS JR. IN PBS' 'I'VE GOTTA BE ME' By Ed Bark

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

WAYLAYING GUILT TRIPS IN FOX'S 'PROVEN INNOCENT' By Ed Bark

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

'AMERICAN SOUL' SHIFTS BET INTO SCRIPTED STORYTELLING MODE By Ed Bark

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

TNT'S 'I AM THE NIGHT' ENDS UP BEING ITS OWN CURFEW By Ed Bark

Chris Pine’s character regularly takes a beating, as does the overall believability of TNT’s ambitious but convoluted I Am the Night...

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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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