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2012

Nov

NAT GEO'S BIN LADEN DOCUDRAMA STIRS CONTROVERSY By Ed Bark

Originally planned as a feature film titled Code Name: Geronimo, the 90-minute docudrama SEAL Team Six is highly unlikely to influence voters...

2012

Nov

'MALIBU COUNTRY' SINGS THE SAME-OLD SITCOM SONG By Ed Bark

ABC's Malibu Country belongs on the network of Hot In Cleveland, Happily Divorced and other broad, blast-from-the-past sitcoms...

2012

Nov

'REVOLUTION' FANS HAVE A LONG DRY SPELL COMING By Ed Bark

NBC's wave of midseason programming changes, made at the height of Hurricane Sandy's East Coast surge, puts Revolution on a very extended hiatus...

2012

Oct

HBO'S 'THE GIRL' PUTS A BIG HITCH IN THE HITCHCOCK LEGEND By Ed Bark

Alfred Hitchcock at the mercy of The Girl, a provocative HBO film drawn from his allegedly obsessive and abusive relationship with leading lady Tippi Hedren...

2012

Oct

HBO'S 'ETHEL': BOTH WATCHABLE AND HIGHLY VARNISHED By Ed Bark

HBO's Ethel is a highly varnished look at 84-year-old Ethel Kennedy through the eyes of her youngest of 11 children, Rory Kennedy...

2012

Oct

'AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM' IS NO MORE THAN SCARY BAD By Ed Bark

Asylum is neither for the faint of heart nor the stout of mind. Some of its imagery is arresting. But this is mostly a sorry, unfortunate and even contemptuous enterprise...

2012

Oct

PRESCRIBING MAMIE GUMMER IN 'EMILY OWENS, M.D.' By Ed Bark

Gummer's a gamer, investing her lead character with smarts, compassion and no small amount of discombobulation and making Emily Owens bearable when it's not fully embraceable...

2012

Oct

SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY: AMC'S 'WALKING DEAD' RETURNS By Ed Bark

Walking Dead, which draws roughly double the audience for AMC's two other main events, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, remains a high-quality show amidst its depths of depravity...

2012

Oct

THE CW INTRODUCES A BEAUTY AND NOT-SO-BEASTLY BEAST By Ed Bark

The CW's Beauty and the Beast is a semi-facsimile of the long-ago CBS series, which starred Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in the title roles...

2012

Oct

'CHICAGO FIRE' DOESN'T BURN BRIGHT BUT RISES ABOVE FLAME-OUT By Ed Bark

NBC's new hook 'n' ladder series in no way a sure-fire hit, but with early episodes rising to the level of some of the show's weekly rescue climbs, viewers shouldn't be burned...

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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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