Both lavish and languid, the first three installments of Amazon Prime’s The Romanoffs are mostly bereft of the snap, pop, and sizzle of Mad Men. Their overriding creative force is one and the same — fastidious Matthew Weiner...

2018

Oct

THE CW'S 'ALL AMERICAN' TRADES ON BOTH RACIAL TENSIONS AND STUDENT BODIES By Ed Bark

Racial dynamics are a big part of The CW’s new All American. But so are abs, pecs, and high school football players aggressively sporting them...

2018

Sep

THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME (AND IN ONE) IN FOX'S 'THE COOL KIDS' By Ed Bark

New vistas in semi-senility are upon us in Fox’s The Cool Kids which is set in a retirement home and somehow steers clear of a Depends joke in Friday’s premiere...There’s ample cringe-worthy bawdiness, though...

2018

Sep

'MURPHY BROWN' RE-ARRIVES WITH TOO MANY CLUNKS FOR NOW By Ed Bark

The past year’s two other cast reunion reboots of note, Will & Grace and Roseanne, fired up the Donald Trump jokes in their first episodes before turning to other matters in subsequent episodes...

2018

Sep

KIDS GET THE UPPER HANDS AND THE WINNING LINES IN ABC'S 'SINGLE PARENTS' By Ed Bark

The kids are more than all right, and the grownups aren’t bad either in the new sitcom Single Parents. So maybe ABC has something here...

2018

Sep

THREE MEN AND A FATALITY IN ABC'S 'A MILLION LITTLE THINGS' By Ed Bark

Sometimes there’s no way around just stating the obvious. Which is: ABC very much wanted a This Is Us of its own. And the network thinks it has one in A Million Little Things...

2018

Sep

NBC'S 'NEW AMSTERDAM' NEEDS A FEW INJECTIONS By Ed Bark

Another medical show is getting a shot in times when this enduring TV genre lately has amped up its vital signs again...

2018

Sep

IT'S NO CRIME OR COINCIDENCE THAT 'FBI' IS ON CBS By Ed Bark

CBS’ latest crime series -- it has 13 this fall -- begins in a big and gripping way with chain explosions that decimate a Bronx housing project...

2018

Sep

'MANIFEST'S DESTINY IS IN YOUR HANDS By Ed Bark

Flight delays are all too frequent for today’s travelers. It’s bad enough being sardined into a coach seat in a virus-spreading tube full of fellow humanoids...

2018

Sep

A NEW 'MAGNUM' ENTERS CBS' HOUSE OF HIT REBOOTS By Ed Bark

CBS already has a black belt in reboots, remakes, re-imaginings or whatever else you’d like to label them...

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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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