Rugged good looks, a chiseled physique and an inclination toward insubordination are pretty much standard operating equipment for CBS’s latter-day stream of crimefighters...

2014

Jan

'DOWNTON ABBEY' SEASON 4: RESONANCE LOST AND NOT ALWAYS FOUND By Ed Bark

PBS’s two-hour Season 4 launch of Downton Abbey easily could be subtitled “Waiting for Lady Mary to Snap Out of It"...

2013

Dec

THERE'S MUCH TO LIKE ABOUT 'PSYCH: THE MUSICAL' By Ed Bark

Here comes Psych: The Musical, a nicely done two-hour whodunit whose signature song is “Under Santa Barbara Skies"...

2013

Dec

OUTSHONE AGAIN: GOLDEN GLOBES TV NOMINATIONS SUPERIOR TO SCREEN ACTORS GUILD'S By Ed Bark

In the TV categories, it’s again no contest. The much-ridiculed Hollywood Foreign Press Association remains way more forward-thinking than Screen Actors Guild...

2013

Dec

WATCH FOR AN "EVENT" EPIDEMIC AFTER 'SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE' SUCCESS By Ed Bark

“Event” programming, once epitomized by elongated miniseries such as Shogun and The Winds of War, is getting a second wind on the Big Four broadcast networks....

2013

Dec

BONNIE & CLYDE RIDE AGAIN -- WITH SOME PURDY IMAGES By Ed Bark

NBC once remade Casablanca into a weekly 1983 series. In that context, reprising the story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker is barely a hand-slap misdemeanor...

2013

Dec

TNT'S 'MOB CITY' IS NO 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' By Ed Bark

Painfully striving to be a new form of L.A. Confidential with film noir sprinkles, TNT’s “EAGERLY ANTICIPATED THREE-WEEK TELEVISION EVENT” is looking like another so-so outing from the “We Know Drama” network...

2013

Nov

MEDICAL COMEDY 'GETTING ON' HAS JUST THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION By Ed Bark

Getting On is amusing, caring, and very deftly adapted for HBO -- and what’s more, you’ll see three revelatory performances from actresses best known for entirely different TV personas...

2013

Nov

ABC'S BIG BATCH OF MIDSEASON CHANGES By Ed Bark

ABC’s midseason schedule will have sweeping changes, including the new cowboy-hatted drama, Killer Women, a series about modern-day Texas Rangers...

2013

Nov

ONE TO WATCH: 'THE DAY KENNEDY DIED' By Ed Bark

At this point, JFK assassination programming is pouring out faster than those chocolates on that old I Love Lucy conveyor belt – but this documentary brings it all home anew, in ways that are both affecting and highly effective...

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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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