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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2017

Jun

ABC'S ‘GONG SHOW’ RE-DO RECAPTURES THE BARRIS ESSENTIALS By Ed Bark

Welcome all cheeky monkeys, and hairy apes as well, to ABC’s very live-wire remake of The Gong Show...

2017

Jun

SPIKE TV'S ‘THE MIST’ MEANS MORE MONEY IN THE BANK FOR HORROR'S KING MIDAS By Ed Bark

Perhaps a small community could be terrorized someday by Stephen King’s gigantic piles of cash. I’d pay to see that...

2017

Jun

'GLOW' GIVES NETFLIX A RING OF FIRE By Ed Bark

Back in the 1980s it was best to put one’s brain in a headlock before succumbing to Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling on whatever local TV station carried it...

2017

Jun

ACORN TV'S ‘LOCH NESS’ TRADES IN ABOVE-GROUND MONSTROSITIES By Ed Bark

It launched earlier this month as The Loch on the United Kingdom’s ITV network. Oh, but that’s just too drab for American audiences. So how about a little extra marketing punch?...

2017

Jun

MEGYN KELLY AND NBC NOW KNOW THAT SOILING THEMSELVES WITH ALEX JONES WAS ALSO BAD FOR BUSINESS By Ed Bark

President Trump has yet to deny reports that he called fired former FBI director James Comey “a real nut job” during a notably congenial Oval Office meeting with two Russian officials last month. A bonafide “real nut job,” hate-mongering Alex Jones, got a big dose of free exposure Sunday night...

2017

Jun

HOPING TO NAIL IT WITH TNT'S 'CLAWS' By Ed Bark

TNT’s headlong pursuit of cable territory already claimed by FX and AMC gets another push in the right/wrong direction with Claws...

2017

Jun

LIVING THE LIFE OF TORTURED STANDUPS IN SHOWTIME'S SEARING ‘I'M DYING UP HERE’ By Ed Bark

It’s oftentimes said, usually by its practitioners, that comedy isn’t pretty...

2017

Jun

PELLEY SLIDES OVER TO A FULL-TIME POSITION WITH 60 MINUTES -- BUT NOT SMOOTHLY By Ed Bark

After a six-year run as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley is walking the plank -- to a full-time position at 60 Minutes...

2017

May

ABC'S 'DIRTY DANCING' TRIES TO FLOOR IT ON THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE MAY "SWEEPS" By Ed Bark

Announced and scrapped twice, ABC’s “re-imagined” Dirty Dancing finally slides into prime-time on the closing night of the May “sweeps”...

2017

May

WHAT WAS THAT? 'TWIN PEAKS,' OF COURSE By Ed Bark

Well, that was really weird. Well, why would it be otherwise? Veteran fetishist David Lynch, who is directing all 18 new episodes again seems to be determinedly going nowhere -- and certainly nowhere fast.

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