The Odd Couple has already greatly succeeded as a Broadway play, a hit movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and a long-running TV series with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. CBS’ The Odd Couple is more in line with ABC’s The New Odd Couple, a deservedly short-lived 1982 sitcom...

2015

Feb

WEIGHING IN ON THE CURIOUS CASE OF BRIAN WILLIAMS By Ed Bark

For years, Williams augmented his anchoring of the NBC Nightly News with laugh-seeking guest appearances on late night talk shows and a hosting stint on Saturday Night Live. Now it seems as if the whole world is laughing at his expense. Can he survive? Should he survive?...

2015

Feb

THE TRUE CRIME GENRE HITS A NEW HIGH WITH HBO'S 'THE JINX' By Ed Bark

Can true crime trump even True Detective? When it’s told this compellingly, you can make a very strong case...

2015

Feb

ABC'S 'FRESH OFF THE BOAT' ADDS MORE DIVERSITY WHILE LABORING TO STAY AFLOAT By Ed Bark

ABC has a history of rewinding to the formative years of kids who survived their nuclear family upbringings without self-imploding. Next up is Fresh Off the Boat, the saga of chunky Eddie Huang’s fish-out-of-water travails, circa 1995...

2015

Jan

SEND IN THE FROWNS: 'GIRLS' IS BACK FOR SEASON 4 By Ed Bark

Season 4 of HBO’s Girls opens with a shocker of a scene. At dinner with her oft-scolding parents, Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) is giggly, even giddy. Don’t get used to it...

2015

Jan

HBO'S 'TOGETHERNESS' GRADUALLY LOSES ITS WAY (BUT THERE'S ALWAYS AMANDA PEET) By Ed Bark

For quite a while, HBO’s Togetherness looks as though it could be exceptional. But halfway through, in an episode subtitled “Kick the Can,” it begins to falter and lose its way...

2015

Jan

FOX'S 'EMPIRE' PROVIDES AN ALL TOO RARE CHANCE FOR A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK CAST TO BRING ON THE DRAMA By Ed Bark

Never mind all the machinations and deceptions involved in orchestrating the next big hit record on Empire. What fourth place Fox really needs is the next big hit TV series... So it’s poured on the promotion for this Lee Daniels-created saga...

2015

Jan

ABC GOES MEDIEVAL -- AND MUSICAL -- IN FUNNY, SPIRITED 'GALAVANT' By Ed Bark

Galavant, an eight-episode musical comedy with back-to-back half hours on Sundays through January, may have problems gaining ratings traction. But that won’t be for lack of trying -- or entertainment value...

2014

Dec

GOLDEN GLOBE TV NOMINATIONS AGAIN ARE NOTHING TO SCOFF AT By Ed Bark

That’s the underlying question whenever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces its annual Golden Globes nominations. Thursday morning’s 72nd batch of nominees was a combination of fresh, bold choices and the usual suspects...

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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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