Getting grossed out by the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet is perfectly understandable. But don’t touch that dial, or whatever else you’re touching these days...

2017

Feb

‘SUPERIOR DONUTS’: ANOTHER SITCOM FIT ONLY FOR CBS By Ed Bark

CBS remains more set in its ways than a Bill Belichick press conference. he great majority of its drama series are crime-driven, and it’s still the only Big Four broadcast network clinging to laugh tracks -- with the lone exception of Life In Pieces...

2017

Feb

NBC'S ‘POWERLESS’ PLUGS INTO THE (WHAT ELSE IS NEW?) SUPERHERO GENRE By Ed Bark

It’s possible, although not very probable, that superhero fatigue will set in at some point in our likely distant futures...

2017

Jan

EVEN MORE TWISTS AND TURNS IN LATEST 'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION' By Ed Bark

Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution has been around the block a few times since its original publication as Traitor Hands back in 1925...

2017

Jan

RIP MARY TYLER MOORE: DEC. 29, 1936 TO JAN. 25, 2017 By Ed Bark

Mary Tyler Moore never actually worked for a real-life local TV news team. It just seemed that way because of her indelible role as indomitable Mary Richards of Minneapolis’ WJM-TV...

2017

Jan

‘RIVERDALE’: THE CW PULP NOVELIZES THOSE OLD GEE-WHIZ ARCHIE COMIC BOOKS By Ed Bark

Heisting storylines from both Twin Peaks and Dawson’s Creek, The CW’s Riverdale gives the venerable G-rated Archie Comics the most extreme makeover since Joaquin Phoenix went this way and that...

2017

Jan

LIFETIME'S ‘BEACHES’ REMAKE MOVES ALONG PRETTY SWIMMINGLY By Ed Bark

Wanna get away from it all without succumbing to the slogan of a certain airline? Lifetime’s re-do of Beaches provides a suitably weepy, sometimes sappy, overall entertaining escape...

2017

Jan

SEND IN THE CLOWN. FX'S 'BASKETS' IS BACK By Ed Bark

Could it be true, though, that this dourest of FX comedies also sucker punches its loyalists with a little heart and humanity? Yes, that’s right...

2017

Jan

CARRIE-ING ON WITH SEASON 6 OF ‘HOMELAND’ By Ed Bark

At the close of Homeland’s Season 5, CIA heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) seemingly pulled the plug on the comatose Peter Quinn after reading his love letter to her. But the room brightened as she did so, signaling something or other...

2017

Jan

HBO HAS THE DAMNDEST THING IN 'THE YOUNG POPE' By Ed Bark

Holy smokes, what will American audiences make of The Young Pope, which already has been underway in Italy since late October?...

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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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