It’s hard to imagine the timing being much worse for a sitcom whose first episode finds two principal characters providing sexual favors in return for anticipated career advancements...

2017

Oct

AUDIENCE NETWORK'S 'LOUDERMILK' IS AS FRESH AS ITS TITLE CHARACTER IS SOUR By Ed Bark

Ron Livingston has made a series of strong impressions -- mostly on HBO -- in Band of Brothers, Sex and the City and Boardwalk Empire. Add the cult movie Office Space, a gift that keeps on giving...

2017

Oct

SHOWTIME'S 'WHITE FAMOUS' OVERPLAYS ITS RACIAL COMPONENT BUT MAY HAVE A STAR PLAYER IN JAY PHAROAH By Ed Bark

It’s an easy sell, and now even more so, to depict Hollywood as one big, soulless, immoral den of iniquity...

2017

Oct

HOW SERIAL KILLER PROFILING BEGAN: NETFLIX'S ‘MINDHUNTER’ HAS AN APPETITE AND AN APTITUDE FOR THAT By Ed Bark

Harkening back to pivotal gestation periods, conventional TV networks and latter day streamers have offered quite an education lately for those who want to enroll...

2017

Oct

THE CW'S 'VALOR' SOAPS UP ITS MILITARY MOTIF By Ed Bark

Ten-hut. Here comes the last -- and the soapiest -- of this fall’s gung-ho, special ops military dramas...

2017

Oct

TOUCHED BY ABC'S 'KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD' By Ed Bark

Given all the tragedies at hand, none among us should object to what’s essentially a remake of Touched By An Angel...

2017

Oct

CBS' APPETITE FOR CROOK-CATCHING GETS AN APP IN 'WISDOM OF THE CROWD' By Ed Bark

This particular premise didn’t go well earlier this year on Fox...

2017

Oct

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? (NOT ‘GHOSTED’) By Ed Bark

There have been two re-castings in Fox’s Ghosted -- of a supporting player and of Ally Walker’s entire wardrobe...

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