Resemblances to the board game Clue and the series Downton Abbey are purely intentional. Anything in common with stupidity likely wasn’t in the game plan...

2013

Jun

LIFETIME'S 'DEVIOUS MAIDS': AN ABC REJECT WITH A SAUCY LATINA BEAT By Ed Bark

Rejected by ABC but perhaps perfect for Lifetime and these times, Devious Maids lathers up Sunday night with a sudsy, bounce-around premiere...

2013

Jun

NBC'S 'CROSSING LINES' CROSSES ONE LINE TOO MANY By Ed Bark

Crossing Lines isn’t breezy enough for a summer diversion. Instead it’s ponderous, pretentious and too predictable...

2013

Jun

REMEMBERING JAMES GANDOLFINI By Ed Bark

Indelible TV roles will never say die. But the actors who played them are all too perishable. Adding James Gandolfini to a list of late actors is particularly painful...

2013

Jun

ABC FAMILY'S 'TWISTED' A TEEN-CENTRIC 'RECTIFY' By Ed Bark

ABC Family's new series, Twisted, likely will quickly achieve fave rave status with its young target audience...

2013

Jun

TNT ROLLS OUT ANOTHER AMPERSAND-CENTRIC SERIES, 'KING & MAXWELL' By Ed Bark

Ampersands have been good business for TNT, so the third time around doesn’t even have to be a charm...

2013

Jun

USA'S 'GRACELAND' BATTLES CRIME AT THE BEACH By Ed Bark

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. USA Network's new drama Graceland is nothing to get all shook up about...

2013

Jun

'MISTRESSES' COMPLETE ABC'S "MAN CANDY MONDAY" By Ed Bark

The imminent arrival of ABC’s heavily teased “Man Candy Monday” dangles hopes for eventual Sonofabitch Sundays or Wanton Women Wednesdays...

2013

Jun

SEASON 3 OF 'THE KILLING': MORE DEAD BODIES IN A DEADENED REPRIEVE By Ed Bark

Season 3 of The Killing(s) is further proof that just one murder is like playing tiddlywinks in these ongoing TV times of Showtime’s Dexter, Fox’s The Following and NBC’s Hannibal...

2013

May

LIBERACE TALKS ABOUT HIS 'PRIVATE WORLD' By Ed Bark

Show business had many flamboyant entertainers, but they couldn’t hold a candle, or a candelabra, to Liberace...

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