Morris Chestnut’s Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. strides through Miami with the same abundant confidence and swagger as Dwayne Johnson’s Spencer Strasmore does in HBO’s Ballers. They also share super-muscular torsos and serious medical issues that could someday punch them out...

2015

Sep

ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER MOVIE KNOCKOFF WITH CBS' 'LIMITLESS' By Ed Bark

CBS’ Limitless is fairly quick on the heels of the 2011 film that starred Bradley Cooper as a stressed but empowered user of the super brain-boosting drug NZT...

2015

Sep

'THE MUPPETS' GIVES ABC A BIG BRAND NAME IN A CHALLENGING "MOCKUMENTARY" SETTING By Ed Bark

The Walt Disney Company has owned the rights to The Muppets since early 2004. So what took so long to turn Jim Henson’s timeless creations into the stars of a new weekly TV show?...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'SCREAM QUEENS' CAN LEAVE A NASTY TASTE By Ed Bark

Chanel Oberlin has a mouth on her. And it spews hatred, racism, put-downs and self-entitlement that could do more harm to “impressionable” viewers than the recurring killings and other brutalities in Scream Queens...

2015

Sep

'LIFE IN PIECES' AMUSES OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL CBS SITCOM FORMAT By Ed Bark

Resemblances to Modern Family are purely intentional in CBS’ Life in Pieces, which begins episodes with the printed promise of “One big family. Four short stories. Every week.” CBS has even gone the extra step of making Life in Pieces a single-cam comedy...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'MINORITY REPORT' LOOKS GREAT AND PLAYS WELL, TOO By Ed Bark

Production-wise, Fox’s Minority Report looks handsomer than either Rob Lowe or John Stamos, the venerable hunks fronting the network’s two new fall sitcoms. The two leads and opening story line aren’t bad either...

2015

Sep

NBC'S 'BLINDSPOT' GETS ITS TATTOOS ON By Ed Bark

Wentworth Miller sported a big batch of tattoos as the jailed Michael Scofield on Fox’s Prison Break. But his body of work can’t nearly match the head-to-toe illustrated woman on NBC’s new drama series Blindspot...

2015

Sep

WHO'S GOING TO WIN AN EMMY ON SUNDAY NIGHT? By Ed Bark

“Television’s Biggest Night” (why do they keep saying that?) returns Sunday in the form of the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards...

2015

Sep

FOR STARTERS, STEPHEN COLBERT'S 'LATE SHOW' HAS SOME STRONG FINISHING KICKS By Ed Bark

Stephen Colbert now has five shows and counting as host of the CBS Late Show. So here’s a little advice -- unsolicited, of course -- on how he could do better by both the audience and himself...

2015

Sep

SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS: FX'S 'THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER' By Ed Bark

Violence. Depravity. Turf wars. Casting his wife, Katey Sagal, in the midst of it all. Creator/producer Kurt Sutter is a big fan, as he showed time and again during seven seasons of Son of Anarchy. His FX follow-up is The Bastard Executioner, a bloody, mystical but not magical saga...

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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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