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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
Sep
26
'THE CRAZY ONES': STAR VEHICLE WITHOUT BRAKES OR STEERING WHEEL By Ed Bark
 
 
Robin Williams returns to series TV, reigning over the CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones. If only he could also rein himself in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
25
ABC'S 'BACK IN THE GAME': A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH By Ed Bark
 
 
Grossly imperfect parents and their disaffected grown children are hallmarks of the new season. Amongst this bunch, Back in the Game is going to be my designated guilty pleasure...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
24
WINGING IT WITH ABC'S 'MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.' By Ed Bark
 
 
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the only new fall show unavailable for review either via a DVD sent in the mail or on a network’s password-protected media site...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
23
ABC'S 'THE GOLDBERGS' MAKES THEM WANT TO SHOUT (CEASELESSLY) By Ed Bark
 
 
Brace your eardrums. Paced by Jeff Garlin as an extremely easy to anger dad, ABC’s The Goldbergs is one big sonic boom of a sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
20
LARRY HAGMAN AT THE EMMYS: NOT 'IN MEMORIAM,' BUT IN ABSENTIA By Ed Bark
 
 
In life, Larry Hagman never won an Emmy... In death, he won’t receive one of the five separate special “In Memoriam” tributes during Sunday's awards ceremony on CBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
18
KEY & PEELE BACK IN FINE FORM FOR SEASON 3 By Ed Bark
 
 
A subtly effective mini-sketch on the Trayvon Martin case speaks louder than any and all bluster from MSNBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
12
JUST ANNOUNCED: 'BREAKING BAD' PREQUEL, NEW 'SNL' GUEST HOSTS By Ed Bark
 
 
Want relief from impending Breaking Bad withdrawal? Better Call Saul... because that's the prequel project AMC just green-lit...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
14
QUACK HOUSES REJOICE: ''DUCK DYNASTY' RETURNS By Ed Bark
 
 
A lot has happened to the Robertsons of Monroe, Louisiana since Duck Dynasty premiered back in March of 2012...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
10
'LOW WINTER SUN' A CASE STUDY IN BLEAK By Ed Bark
 
 
Dark, humorless and, worst of all, dramatically dreary, AMC’s Low Winter Sun sets up shop Sunday in hopes that Breaking Bad fans will buy it wholesale...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Aug
5
MORE TVWW QUESTIONS, MORE TCA PRESS TOUR ANSWERS By Ed Bark
 
 
Once again, TVWW's Ed Bark compiles an entertaining sampler of answers from the current TCA Press Tour -- answers solicited, once again, entirely by his own questions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley