We’re at the point where some critics are faulting Showtime’s Our Cartoon President for “humanizing” Donald Trump. Yeah, because that would be a disgrace...

2018

Feb

HBO'S 'HERE AND NOW' HAS A SPARK ONLY NOW AND THEN By Ed Bark

Every once in a while, a character in a TV series unintendedly speaks volumes, disparagingly or otherwise, about the TV series he or she is in...

2018

Feb

SOME JUVENILE HIGHS IN NBC'S 'A.P. BIO' By Ed Bark

NBC is hot for this teacher, even if the title doesn’t readily suggest it’s a schoolhouse sitcom...

2018

Jan

ACORN TV'S 'GIRLFRIENDS' HAS AGE-OLD APPEAL By Ed Bark

Attention TV shoppers: Acorn TV’s Girlfriends in no way is a reboot of what just happened to be the same-named sitcom that lasted eight seasons on UPN and then The CW...

2018

Jan

STARZ HAS VIEWERS SEEING DOUBLE IN SCI-FI/SPY DRAMA 'COUNTERPART' By Ed Bark

Better known lately as the face of those heavily exposed Farmers insurance ads, J. K. Simmons knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two...

2018

Jan

GIVING THE REBOOT TO 'MURPHY BROWN' By Ed Bark

Resurrecting onetime hit TV series -- either with the old cast or a brand new one -- may have gone from a fever pitch to a fanatical one with CBS’ announcement that Murphy Brown is coming back...

2018

Jan

HBO'S 'MOSAIC' A SO-SO WHODUNIT BUT STAR VEHICLE FOR STONE By Ed Bark

A famous children’s book author with a yen for younger men is murdered in her splendorous Summit, Utah home on New Year’s Eve. There’s ample blood but no body. So who did it and where’s the corpse?...

2018

Jan

TNT'S 'THE ALIENIST' IS JUST THE LATEST DRAMA TO ACCENTUATE SERIAL KILLING By Ed Bark

The serial killings are gruesome, the cops are corrupt and the gumshoes are dedicated but always up against it...

2018

Jan

FOX ADDS A NEW SET OF DOCTORS TO ITS HOUSE IN 'THE RESIDENT' By Ed Bark

Amy Holden Jones, daughter of a doctor and co-creator/executive producer of Fox’s new The Resident, seems to know just what many TV critics are thinking...

2018

Jan

FX'S 'THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE' HITS HARDER WITH THE KILLER'S LESSER-KNOWN VICTIMS By Ed Bark

FX’s second American Crime Story entry could be far more accurately titled The Dissection of Andrew Cunanan...

Posts 171-180 of 788

17 18 19 20 21

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.

New From TVWW

Ed Bark

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'