Even though ABC remains addicted to far-fetched, string-along serial dramas, Zero Hour pretty much reflects its chances of making it to a second season next fall...

2013

Feb

'I'M DICKENS...HE'S FENSTER': THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION By Ed Bark

I'm Dickens … He's Fenster never got that deep. Nor was it a classic. But it's still good for some laughs as a prime-time TV artifact that arguably deserved a longer life...

2013

Jan

FX'S 'THE AMERICANS' A KGB KEEPER By Ed Bark

The Americans enthralls with its complexities, simplicities and overall derring-do. Boris and Natasha need not apply...

2013

Jan

LARRY HAGMAN'S DEATH SETS UP A NEW J.R. STORY ON 'DALLAS' By Ed Bark

Dallas soon will face a bumpy afterlife without Larry Hagman, even while milking his death for a few more twists and turns...

2013

Jan

'SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED' READY FOR ITS LAST STABS AT GORY GLORY By Ed Bark

The Starz network's most popular original series remains gratuitously gruesome to behold for its final season...

2013

Jan

'RISE OF THE DRONES' A SKY-HIGH CAUTIONARY TALE FROM 'NOVA' By Ed Bark

Nova's Rise of the Drones isn't an alarmist hour, but does raise some caution flags about a rapidly escalating and evolving technology...

2013

Jan

LIKE 'COPPER'? TRY BBC AMERICA'S NEW PERIOD PROCEDURAL, 'RIPPER STREET' By Ed Bark

The cops of 1889 East London are charged with keeping a modicum of order in the immediate aftermath of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror on BBC America's Ripper Street...

2013

Jan

TLC HOPES TO CHARLIE HUSTLE VIEWERS WITH 'PETE ROSE: HITS & MRS.' By Ed Bark

Pete Rose was predominantly a single hitter, so maybe it's fitting that his new TLC "reality" series falls far short of being a home run...

2013

Jan

HBO'S GIRLS STILL A GIFT IN PLAIN WRAPPING By Ed Bark

Sex and the City was replete with creature comforts and glamorous parties. Girls above all is about uncomfortable creatures...

2013

Jan

BANSHEE INCREASES CINEMAX'S ORIGINAL DRAMA SERIES OUTPUT, BUT DOES LITTLE ELSE By Ed Bark

Given the title and Alan Ball's involvement, Cinemax's Banshee on the face of it seems like another otherworldly knockoff of his ongoing True Blood...

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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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