While Wonder Bread CBS keeps trotting out its tired “We need to do better” mantra, FX and now HBO in fact have done notably better this season by African-American creators and performers...

2016

Oct

LESS THAN HI-TECH: THE CW’S TIME TRAVELING ‘FREQUENCY’ HAS A HAM RADIO VIBE By Ed Bark

Absent a comic book superhero, a vivaciously unfulfilled semi-comic heroine or anything close to a high-gloss veneer, Frequency is uncommonly gritty for a latter day CW series...

2016

Oct

‘NO TOMORROW’ IS IN KEEPING WITH THE CW’S CURRENT-DAY ACCENT ON APPEALING LEAD WOMEN By Ed Bark

The CW hasn’t yet cornered the market on appealing young women leading the way through comedy-dusted drama series...

2016

Oct

JUSTICE DO-OVER? ABC'S ‘CONVICTION’ LITERALLY COUNTS DOWN THE DAYS By Ed Bark

Hayley Atwell has washed that Marvel right out of her hair, quickly rebounding from ABC’s failed Agent Carter to the network’s new Conviction...

2016

Oct

HBO'S VERSION OF WESTWORLD: A MORALITY PLAY REPLETE WITH GUNPLAY By Ed Bark

HBO’s much hyped and hoped for NEXT BIG THING shares some common ground with The Truman Show, Groundhog Day, and even the weekly “they killed Kenny” snippets from Southpark...

2016

Sep

‘TIMELESS’ PUTS NBC BACK INTO PAST TENSE By Ed Bark

TV’s latest time-travel series begins its limited present-day activities with a whopper. Only it’s completely true, according to latter day accounts...

2016

Sep

FOX’S ‘SON OF ZORN’ IS A “HYBRID” WITHOUT MUCH APPARENT MILEAGE By Ed Bark

Does a “hybrid live-action/animated comedy” need to be more or less brilliant from the start to succeed? Well, it really helps...

2016

Sep

‘BETTER THINGS’ IS FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT FX JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER By Ed Bark

Divorced Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon) fights most of her battles on the domestic front in FX’s wonderfully biting Better Things...

2016

Aug

LEBRON NOW TAKING HIS TALENTS TO 'CLEVELAND HUSTLES' AS THE NEW CNBC SERIES' PRINCIPAL PRODUCER By Ed Bark

Having turned Cleveland into a championship city after a 52-year drought, LeBron James now goes about the business of building up downtrodden neighborhoods...

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