As Game of Thrones’ thoroughly despised Ramsay Bolton, he finally received payback when his own ravenously hungry hounds made a meal of him. Marvel’s Inhumans...finds Rheon comfily back in dark leather as the conniving, power-hungry Maximus...

2017

Sep

BROAD, BAWDY AND BACK: NBC'S NEW/OLD ‘WILL & GRACE’ By Ed Bark

The energy is full force and oftentimes in your face. And the four principals have aged barely a wisp, if it at all...

2017

Sep

CBS' ‘SEAL TEAM' HAS DAVID BOREANAZ IN IT – WHICH IS LIKELY ALL THAT MATTERS By Ed Bark

It’s probably best not to bet against David Boreanaz, who’s had two decades worth of continuous TV series employment in starring roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Bones...

2017

Sep

THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS GET ANOTHER WHIRL, THIS TIME WITH NBC'S ‘LAW & ORDER’ ATTACHED By Ed Bark

Yes, the Menendez murders have been “done” before, dating back to a pair of spring 1994 productions on Fox and CBS, and resuming this year with a two-hour ABC documentary and a scripted Lifetime movie. No, that lamentably doesn’t mean enough is enough...

2017

Sep

CBS' TIME-SPANNING 'ME, MYSELF & I' IS DERIVIATIVE, HURRIED By Ed Bark

Perhaps CBS should add “This Is Us Presents” to the title of its new time-traveling, generation-spanning comedy. Me, Myself & I is similar in concept if not execution...

2017

Sep

ABC'S 'THE GOOD DOCTOR' IS BOTH AN AUTISTIC AND ARTISTIC TRIUMPH By Ed Bark

After playing Norman Bates for five years on A&E, Freddie Highmore knows what it is to have an out-of-body mind of his own... autistic surgical resident Shaun Murphy is mental without being disturbed in ABC’s affecting The Good Doctor...

2017

Sep

CINEMAX'S "MIKE JUDGE PRESENTS: TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS" TIES ONE ON WITH COUNTRY'S MOST SELF-DESTRUCTIVE STARS (MOST NOW DEAD) By Ed Bark

Hey network execs, just don’t say no to Mike Judge...

2017

Sep

PRIME-TIME EMMYS POUND AWAY AT TRUMP (AND ALSO GIVE AWAY SOME AWARDS) By Ed Bark

Let’s first dispense with the night’s biggest winners before turning to the real headline-maker from Sunday’s 69th annual Prime-Time Emmy Awards on CBS...

2017

Sep

KEN BURNS' 'THE VIETNAM WAR' BRINGS IT ALL BACK HOME IN WAYS HIS OTHER FILMS NEVER HAVE By Ed Bark

Going against the grain of their usual approach, Ken Burns and producing partner Lynn Novick have seen to it that historians, sociologists, and other assorted academics are kept out of The Vietnam War. The history is still too recent and raw for that...

2017

Sep

FOX'S 'THE ORVILLE' SO FAR, IS LOST IN SPACE By Ed Bark

The Orville doesn’t lack for ambition or expense, or about violating any of the often laughably sacred “canon” from previous versions of Star Trek... on the contrary, The Orville is completely on its own. Which so far is the problem...

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