Step right up to a sprawling, eclectic batch of TBS/TruTV/TNT presentations squeezed into a morning bloc Thursday during Turner Networks' no-space-wasted turn at the TCA summer "press tour"...

2017

Jul

THE TCA PRESS TOUR: A DAY WITH LARRY DAVID...AND SERIAL KILLERS By Ed Bark

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The people at HBO aren't dummies. So they saved Larry David for last, Wednesday, during a three-hour cavalcade of panels...

2017

Jul

'MIDNIGHT, TEXAS' IS ANOTHER SUPERNATURAL SPIN FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'TRUE BLOOD' By Ed Bark

HBO’s True Blood has bled out, but the author whose books inspired it has gotten another network to bite with her latest other-worldly mash-up...

2017

Jul

NETFLIX'S ‘OZARK’ FOLLOWS THE MONEY WHILE JASON BATEMAN'S CAREER TAKES A NEW PATH By Ed Bark

Money laundering is at the root of most evil in Netflix’s Ozark, whose various spin cycles leave no one spotless...

2017

Jul

'SNL' AND 'WESTWORLD' LEAD EMMY NOMINEES By Ed Bark

Saturday Night Live makes Donald Trump grate -- again and again. Thursday’s 69th annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations were further evidence that his presidency has been very good for shows and performers that lampoon it.

2017

Jul

FANCY-FREE FREEFORM FEMINISM IN ‘THE BOLD TYPE’ By Ed Bark

The women -- and men -- of Freeform cable’s The Bold Type are uniformly equipped with sculpted bods, great looking wardrobes, and gorgeous good looks...

2017

Jul

TNT'S ‘WILL’ FINDS A WAY TO MAKE SHAKESPEARE ROCK By Ed Bark

All these years later, the ploy’s the thing with William Shakespeare. How can the fabled bard’s life and times be cleverly exploited anew in hopes of luring a new generation of younger viewers?...

2017

Jul

‘SNOWFALL’ IS A TOUGH SELL, EVEN IF ITS CRACK COCAINE IS NOT By Ed Bark

Using “How Crack Began” as the principal promotional tease is really pushing it. Might too many viewers be very much inclined to just say no?...

2017

Jun

SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL'S ‘AMERICA IN COLOR’ BRIGHTENS HISTORY WITHOUT BLIGHTING IT By Ed Bark

Led by Ted Turner, the colorization of feature films craze peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s after his company acquired the MGM library and sought to further monetize it...

2017

Jun

‘BROADCHURCH’ RETURNS WITH AN ASSURED GRIP FOR WHAT'S BILLED AS ITS FINAL SEASON By Ed Bark

Open-ended endings haven’t yet reached the epidemic stage. They’re spreading, though...

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