ABC, long ago the network of Roots, boldly strives to make another landmark contribution with the four-part, eight-hour When We Rise. Mission accomplished...

2017

Feb

WHAT WOULD TRUMP DO WITHOUT HIS ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE -- OR THEY WITHOUT HIM By Ed Bark

No one needs and feeds off the “enemy of the American People” more than the man who designated certain TV networks and a newspaper as such. And in fairness, they may need him even more...

2017

Feb

‘THE GOOD FIGHT’ COMES OUT PUNCHING IN ROUND ONE FOR CBS ALL ACCESS By Ed Bark

Lately, there’s no such thing as a free, new top quality drama on CBS. Instead, you’ll have to pay for it. The network’s recently launched streaming service, CBS All Access, gets serious this Sunday with its first original series...

2017

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HBO'S 'CRASHING': A "SMALL" COMEDY MEASURES UP By Ed Bark

HBO’s Crashing looks at New York’s oft-dispiriting stand up comic sub-world, with Pete Holmes playing himself and determined to make it after all...

2017

Feb

HBO'S ‘BIG LITTLE LIES’: ALL-STAR ANGST AMID A DANGLED DOUBLE MYSTERY By Ed Bark

Ample wine is consumed, but the glasses figuratively are half-empty in HBO’s very moody and sometimes draining Big Little Lies...

2017

Feb

‘DOUBT’ BOUNCES KATHERINE HEIGL OVER TO CBS By Ed Bark

Here comes Katherine Heigl again. All hasn’t gone as planned since she left Grey’s Anatomy in 2010 with the idea of becoming a movie star...

2017

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FX GOES THOROUGHLY MONDO MARVEL -- AND BRILLIANTLY SO -- WITH ‘LEGION’ By Ed Bark

Even David Lynch might be stunned into submission by the beautifully hypnotic weirdness of Legion...

2017

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‘24: LEGACY’ IS EVIDENCE THAT TIME'S UP By Ed Bark

At its very best, 24 rocked around its clock and remains Fox’s lone Emmy winner in the Best Drama Series category. That was for Season 5 back in 2006, when the show also logged its best Nielsen ratings...

2017

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NETFLIX'S ‘SANTA CLARITA DIET’ OFFERS ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT ABSURDITY By Ed Bark

Getting grossed out by the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet is perfectly understandable. But don’t touch that dial, or whatever else you’re touching these days...

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‘SUPERIOR DONUTS’: ANOTHER SITCOM FIT ONLY FOR CBS By Ed Bark

CBS remains more set in its ways than a Bill Belichick press conference. he great majority of its drama series are crime-driven, and it’s still the only Big Four broadcast network clinging to laugh tracks -- with the lone exception of Life In Pieces...

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