Follow the bouncing reboots. Earlier in the week, ABC officially became the new network of American Idol...Now The CW, intent on broadening its audience beyond 18-to-34-year-olds, is hoping to make a soapy splash with one of ABC’s onetime hits...

2017

May

TWO PAWS UP FOR ABC’S ‘DOWNWARD DOG’ By Ed Bark

The following favorable review of Downward Dog is not influenced by my surname, although you still might want to consider the source. After all, I was among a bare handful of TV critics who didn’t actively dislike ABC’s earlier talking creature sitcom, Imaginary Mary...

2017

May

UPFRONTS: CBS PICKS SIX, INCLUDING A ‘BIG BANG THEORY’ PREQUEL, FOR NEW FALL SCHEDULE By Ed Bark

No. 1 in total viewers for nine consecutive seasons and 14 of the last 15, CBS nonetheless is adding more newcomers to its fall schedule than any of its rivals...

2017

May

UPFRONTS: ABC ADDS FIVE FRESHMAN FOR THE FALL WHILE READYING 'AMERICAN IDOL' FOR A MIDSEASON SPLASH By Ed Bark

Third out of the box with its new season plans, struggling ABC has five newbies for this fall and a rebooted American Idol on its bench...

2017

May

UPFRONTS: WITH LITTLE NEW, NBC IS FIRST OUT OF THE GATE WITH FALL LINEUP By Ed Bark

All aglow with another win among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds -- its third in the last four seasons -- NBC again is adding just three new series to its latest fall lineup.

2017

May

UPFRONTS: 'IDOL' THOUGHTS TIED TO FOX'S NEW SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT By Ed Bark

Fox replicated NBC’s minimalist approach Monday by announcing just three new series this fall...

2017

May

'I LOVE DICK' TAKES AMAZON INTO A THOROUGHLY ADULT BOOKSTORE By Ed Bark

Basically twisted, but very daringly so, Amazon Prime’s I Love Dick has a title that in fact fits like a customized condom...

2017

Apr

"A NOVEL OF TELEVISION AND MURDER:" TRACKING BACK TO BILL O'REILLY'S VERY FIRST BOOK, WHICH HE PUMPED WITH TELLING BOMBAST By Ed Bark

Note to readers: All of the trademark bombast and hyperbole were in place when Bill O’Reilly wrote his very first book in 1998. This one was a serial killer novel titled Those Who Trespass...

2017

Apr

HULU'S VERSION OF ‘THE HANDMAID'S TALE’ CAN'T HELP BUT BE A CLARION CALL 32 YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST INCARNATION By Ed Bark

It’s become all too easy, and oftentimes preachy, to filter many a new or prominent returning TV series through the prism of Donald Trump’s divisive presidency...

2017

Apr

TACKLING EINSTEIN AND KEEPING HIM WITHIN GRASP IN NATIONAL GEO'S ‘GENIUS’ By Ed Bark

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to quickly divine both the production values and the heightened characterizations in the National Geographic channel’s humanizing of Albert Einstein...

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