Fox's renewal of Fringe, announced Thursday evening by the network, is both a pleasant surprise for fans and a heartening detour from business as usual...

2012

Apr

LIFETIME'S 'THE CONVERSATION' GETS CELEBS TALKING By Ed Bark

Lifetime's new nighttime talker, The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, features celebrity interviews that speak "the universal language of women."

2012

Apr

'VEEP' IS HARDLY A WASHINGTON MONUMENT By Ed Bark

Here's a new comedy series for those who expect absolutely nothing but incompetence, cynicism and crass opportunism from their elected leaders in Washington.Which might well cover most of us these days...

2012

Apr

THANKS FOR BEING A PART OF OUR LIVES, MR. CLARK By Ed Bark

No one gets out alive, not even the man known for most of his adult life as "America's Oldest Teenager." Dick Clark died Wednesday at age 82 of a heart attack. And no one wants to dance to that beat...

2012

Apr

RIP - MIKE WALLACE, DAD By Ed Bark

Even his own CBS network called him a "pit-bull reporter" in the first sentence of its tribute to the late, inimitable Mike Wallace...My most vivid recollection of him is as a father who talked openly of reconnecting with his likewise famous son, Chris Wallace...

2012

Apr

LOWER THAN AN 'A' FOR HBO'S 'GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS'? ED BARK WILL HAVE NUN OF IT... By Ed Bark

Nuns are all right by me...So that's the context of this review of "God Is The Bigger Elvis," the Oscar-nominated short documentary film charting the transformation of Dolores Hart from movie star to the current Mother Prioress in Bethlehem, Connecticut...

2012

Apr

ABC'S 'SCANDAL' GOOFILY PRACTICES D.C. DAMAGE CONTROL, WHEN NOT BEING JUST PLAIN AGGRAVATING By Ed Bark

Along comes ABC's "Scandal," another aggravatingly imperfect melodrama from "Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice" creator Shonda Rhimes...with the key characters tending to speed-talk as though they're all in a Go-Kart race...

2012

Feb

DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN? ABC'S 'THE RIVER' MAKES ONE FEEL 'LOST' ANEW By Ed Bark

Whatever the lessons of Lost, they seem lost on ABC. Because here comes another otherworldly, string-along drama series whose humans are at the mercy of mysterious unseen forces that include a demon spirit reminiscent of "The Smoke Monster"...

2012

Feb

MADE BY THOROUGHBREDS, HBO'S 'LUCK' CAN BE A DAZE AT THE RACES By Ed Bark

A horse is a horse, of course of course. If only it were that easy with Luck, a measured and at times almost mystical series devoted to the so-called "Sport of Kings" -- and degenerate gamblers. HBO took the unprecedented step of sending out all nine episodes of Season 1. And you'll pretty much win in the end if you ride this mount all the way to the finish line...

2012

Feb

FOX'S 'TOUCH' CAN BE TOUGH TO GRASP By Ed Bark

The numbers, the premise, the interconnectivity and Kiefer Sutherland as a beaten-down airport baggage handler. None of these quite adds up in Fox's Touch...

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