The rest of the cast oftentimes might just as well be cardboard cutouts. NBC’s Marlon, getting a belated late summer launch, is very much a vehicle for star and co-executive producer Marlon Wayans...

2017

Aug

EPIX DESERVES TO COME UP BIG WITH ‘GET SHORTY’ By Ed Bark

Epix’s spanking new Get Shorty series comes from good bloodlines and has ample bloodletting amid its hard and soft toss one-liners...

2017

Aug

THE ‘THE GOLDBERGS’ AND NORMAN LEAR AT TCA PRESS TOUR By Ed Bark

Jeff Garlin regaled, Wendi McClendon-Covey embraced ("You're gonna get a hug") and the kids were all right, too...

2017

Aug

SETH MACFARLANE LAUNCHES PREVIEWS OF PRICEY NEW FOX SCI-FI SERIES 'THE ORVILLE' AT TCA By Ed Bark

Fox is giving Seth MacFarlane a big budget and lots of space to launch The Orville, by far his most visible TV role as problematic spacecraft captain Ed Mercer...

2017

Aug

TCA: THE END OF ‘THE MIDDLE’ By Ed Bark

In a sea of disaffected TV teen daughters with 'tudes, The Middle’s Sue Heck is a fount of boundless optimism and pluck...

2017

Aug

THE TCA AWARDS -- THE BEST AWARDS SHOW NOT ON TV By Ed Bark

Still proudly un-televised, the 33rd annual Television Critics Association awards show made a scene Saturday night from the moment host Kristin Chenoweth strode onstage in a coverup red robe and white hat...

2017

Aug

AT TCA: STEVE HARVEY, THE MAN OF MANY HATS, AND NIELSEN, THE COMPANY OF MANY NUMBERS By Ed Bark

Steve Harvey defies ubiquitous. To say he's everywhere is to shortchange him. He somehow found time to appear late Thursday afternoon at NBC Universal's portion of the Television Critics Association press tour...

2017

Aug

AT TCA, AN EXPLORATION OF STAR TREK: DISCOVERY ON CBS ALL ACCESS By Ed Bark

STUDIO CITY, CA -- May the force be . . . sorry, wrong space franchise...

2017

Aug

NBC MAKES 'WILL & GRACE' AND OTHER HEADLINES AT TCA By Ed Bark

NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt began his network's marquee panel with a bang Thursday at the Television Critics Association "press tour"...

2017

Aug

GETTING DARKER: USA NETWORK'S ‘THE SINNER’ FURTHER DISTANCES THE NETWORK FROM A RECENTLY DISCARDED SALES PITCH By Ed Bark

Darkness prevails at the USA network, which formerly championed a “blue sky” approach that welcomed banter-laced, light-stepping dramas...

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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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