Tuesday is middle-aged Adonis night on Fox’s new fall schedule. So after John Stamos in Grandfathered comes Rob Lowe in the better rendered The Grinder...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'GRANDFATHERED' OFFERS JOHN STAMOS A NEW WRINKLE By Ed Bark

Aging playboy Jimmy Martino (John Stamos) is a self-idolizing, phony flatterer who runs an upscale Hollywood restaurant and polices any gray hairs as though they were weeds in a Tournament of Roses Parade float...

2015

Sep

ABC'S 'BLOOD & OIL' LETS DON JOHNSON SHOW OFF AGAIN By Ed Bark

Back during Don Johnson’s burst into stardom on NBC’s Miami Vice, ABC’s Dynasty also roamed the earth as the 1984-’85 TV season’s No. 1 prime-time series. Now they’re both back in ABC’s Dynasty-like Blood & Oil...

2015

Sep

ABC'S 'QUANTICO' PUTS NYC ON THE RECEIVING END OF MORE TERRORIST DEVASTATION By Ed Bark

What the real-life world really doesn’t need right now is another devastating terrorist attack on New York City or grossly incompetent screening of would-be FBI agents at the Quantico Academy. You’ll get both in ABC’s Quantico...

2015

Sep

BIRTH OF A BIG MESS IN NBC'S 'HEROES REBORN' By Ed Bark

Regarding Heroes Reborn, might there be the possibility of a historic class action suit on the part of viewers who end up suffering from whiplash, dizziness and overall head-hurt? Saying this NBC reboot is all over the place might qualify as the understatement of the millennium...

2015

Sep

NBC'S ‘THE PLAYER’ MIGHT NOT WANT TO BET ON ITS SURVIVAL By Ed Bark

Automatic weapons fire, screeching/smoking motor vehicles, flying fists and daring last-minute rescues are very much in The Player’s playbook. Darn, there’s dialogue, too...

2015

Sep

FOX'S ‘ROSEWOOD’ TOO OFTEN SEEMS BUILT OF BALSA By Ed Bark

Morris Chestnut’s Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. strides through Miami with the same abundant confidence and swagger as Dwayne Johnson’s Spencer Strasmore does in HBO’s Ballers. They also share super-muscular torsos and serious medical issues that could someday punch them out...

2015

Sep

ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER MOVIE KNOCKOFF WITH CBS' 'LIMITLESS' By Ed Bark

CBS’ Limitless is fairly quick on the heels of the 2011 film that starred Bradley Cooper as a stressed but empowered user of the super brain-boosting drug NZT...

2015

Sep

'THE MUPPETS' GIVES ABC A BIG BRAND NAME IN A CHALLENGING "MOCKUMENTARY" SETTING By Ed Bark

The Walt Disney Company has owned the rights to The Muppets since early 2004. So what took so long to turn Jim Henson’s timeless creations into the stars of a new weekly TV show?...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'SCREAM QUEENS' CAN LEAVE A NASTY TASTE By Ed Bark

Chanel Oberlin has a mouth on her. And it spews hatred, racism, put-downs and self-entitlement that could do more harm to “impressionable” viewers than the recurring killings and other brutalities in Scream Queens...

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