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

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

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

'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

‘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...

2016

Oct

DOCS IN SMOCKS FIGHT THESE BATTLES IN CBS' BUNKER HILL-SET ‘PURE GENIUS’ By Ed Bark

The prognosis for a solid, quality drama series is at least cautiously optimistic when Jason Katims is at the controls...

2016

Oct

MCHALE'S NADIR -- AS THE STAR OF CBS' NEW ‘THE GREAT INDOORS’ By Ed Bark

Ageism isn’t only aimed at today’s elders. In the sad case of CBS’ The Great Indoors (Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET), it can also be applied to millennials...

2016

Oct

LEBLANC'S LIKEABLE IN CBS' 'MAN WITH A PLAN' By Ed Bark

There’s nothing new under the conventional sitcom sun in CBS’ Man With A Plan. This doesn’t unduly matter for this amiable, amusing outing fronted by everybody’s favorite Friend, Matt LeBlanc...

2016

Oct

WHAT THE DEUCE? BBC AMERICA'S 'DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY' CAREENS INTO VIEW By Ed Bark

Trying to comprehend the intentionally absurd goings-on in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency may be completely beside the point...

2016

Oct

LAURIE'S BACK AND HULU'S GOT HIM IN ‘CHANCE’ By Ed Bark

Having played a surly doc on Fox’s long-running House and recently a villainous billionaire businessman in AMC’s acclaimed The Night Manager, estimable Hugh Laurie is back in M.D. mode for Hulu’s Chance...

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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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