Many viewers might be left wanting more after this very watchable film breezes by. That’s the Old Hollywood way, and Dear Mom, Love Cher makes a virtue of it...

2013

May

THE ADDRESS IS CBS FOR PRIME-TIME'S MOST-COURTED VIEWERS By Ed Bark

Whatever its scheduling decisions, CBS will march into next season as the No. 1 network among 18-to-49-year-olds for the first time in 21 years...

2013

Apr

'FAMILY TOOLS': YET ANOTHER HAMMER-HEADED SITCOM By Ed Bark

ABC’s Family Tools is to comedy what a chainsaw is to birthday cake cutting. It doesn’t work well and makes a mess...

2013

Apr

'HEMLOCK GROVE' GOES FOR OMINOUS, LAPSES INTO TEDIOUS By Ed Bark

There’s a sense throughout that a long-term investment will at best yield the equivalent of a penny slot machine payoff. And yet I watched the whole 13-episode first season...

2013

Apr

'MARY AND MARTHA' GRIPS WITHOUT BEING GRAPHIC By Ed Bark

Mary and Martha is a film with star power and staying power. It won’t surprise you with its outcome — but it may well have more of an impact than anticipated...

2013

Apr

FIVE MINUTES WITH ROBERT REDFORD By Ed Bark

It’s Robert Redford on the phone for a five-minute one-on-one interview about Discovery Channel’s upcoming documentary All the President’s Men Revisited...

2013

Apr

PAT SUMMERALL: 1930-2013 By Ed Bark

The voice: unsurpassed. The diction: letter-perfect. The run at the top: unparalleled. Pat Summerall announced some of the greatest games ever played...

2013

Apr

SYFY'S 'DEFIANCE' ENGAGING ON MULTIPLE LEVELS By Ed Bark

Syfy is touting the launch of Defiance as a transmedia event, with the release of both the original TV series and a multi-platform video game...

2013

Apr

A COMIC IN FULL PRIME: HBO'S 'LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD' By Ed Bark

Louis C.K. shoots from the lip and keeps scoring. The beauty is the seeming ease with which he does this. And the knowledge of how hard it really is...

2013

Apr

"LEO" STRUTS HIS 15TH CENTURY STUFF IN 'DA VINCI'S DEMONS' By Ed Bark

Forget about those familiar portraits of an old, fulsomely bearded Da Vinci. Starz's Da Vinci's Demons presents Leonardo as a dashing, glib-tongued action hero with an eye for the ladies...

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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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