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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Dec
31
FOX'S 'THE MICK' IS NOT MICKEY MOUSE-ING By Ed Bark
 
 
ABC is filled to the brim with mom, dad, and the kids sitcoms. On current-day Fox, though, they need not apply unless they’re cartoons...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
27
39TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS NOT SO SPECIAL THIS YEAR, BUT THE CBS PARTNERSHIP STILL IS By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS’ partnership with the Kennedy Center Honors dates to their inception back in 1978... and its latest agreement should be applauded as one of those rare instances in which a broadcast network bows to class rather than big ratings...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
26
2016 TOP TEN LISTS ARE SPLIT DECISIONS By Ed Bark
 
 
UpRoxx, has just released its fifth annual survey of the year’s Top 10 best new and overall TV programs. Your friendly content provider again is among the 59 critics contributing this year. Our respective lists are fairly in sync... but there are notable exceptions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
23
UNCLE BARKY'S COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS By Ed Bark
 
 
’Tis the season to be generous. So today we offer a twofer -- classic ABC and CBS Christmas greetings from generations ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
15
TRUE BRIT: ‘THE LEVEL’ IS ONLY THE LATEST ON ACORN TV By Ed Bark
 
 
The subscription streaming network known as Acorn TV makes for a solid investment if you’re a glutton for British programming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Dec
14
FOX'S ‘STAR’ SO FAR IS ‘EMPIRE’-BUILDING ON A SHAKY FOUNDATION By Ed Bark
 
 
Fox’s mega-promoted follow-up to Empire can be semi-tolerable if you enjoy watching plausibility in the key of F and aren’t looking for any likable characters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
30
RIP GRANT TINKER By Ed Bark
 
 
Grant Tinker, the self-deprecating visionary who founded a legendary TV studio and resurrected a comatose network has died at age 90 in his home. Lamentably a bygone relic to most younger viewers, his death wasn’t even made public until two days after the fact...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
30
MORE FUTURE SHOCKS IN SYFY'S SOBERING 'INCORPORATED' By Ed Bark
 
 
Our imminent real-life futures may be problematic enough after a certain power shift takes hold early next year. But time will tell...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
4
'THE CROWN' IS ANOTHER JEWEL FOR NETFLIX By Ed Bark
 
 
“Humanizing” upper-crust Britishers, let alone The Royals, remains a considerable challenge in any day or age. After all, what are they but absurdly rich, pampered and proper? Good Gawd, they even dress for dinner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
31
‘PEOPLE OF EARTH’ GIVES TBS SOME SPACE By Ed Bark
 
 
My Favorite Martian. Mork & Mindy. ALF. 3rd Rock From the Sun. And Saturday Night Live’s “The Coneheads.” Aliens from above have a long history of being played for laughs. TBS’ People of Earth takes this baton and wryly trots with it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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