Producer/writer/director Ryan Murphy apparently found himself with a little extra time despite the four series he’s making for FX and the one he’ll be helming for Netflix...

2017

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STILL FULL OF MAJESTY, NETFLIX'S ‘THE CROWN’ RETURNS By Ed Bark

Long live The Crown -- which thankfully is already assured...

2017

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SYFY'S ‘HAPPY!’ SELLS A CHRISTMAS STORY FROM HELL -- AND IN EIGHT EPISODES NO LESS By Ed Bark

Post-Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Christopher Meloni’s walks on his wild side include Fox’s short-lived but bracing Surviving Jack...and a stint as Donald Trump in Funny Or Die’s The Kellyanne Conway Story. It turns out he was just warming up in the bullpen...

2017

Nov

LAUER'S JUST THE LATEST, BUT ALSO THE BIGGEST, TO BE FELLED BY CHARGES OF "INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR" By Ed Bark

Millions of Americans have had a longtime habit of waking up to Matt Lauer in the mornings. Waking up to news of his firing Wednesday no doubt caused many to spew their coffee...

2017

Nov

HULU'S 'FUTURE MAN' GOES FOR THE COMEDY GOLD By Ed Bark

Want to get away? If so, we live in times that are tailor-made for the escapist, devil-may-care comedy of Future Man...

2017

Nov

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S THE LONG ROAD HOME IS BOTH COMMEMORATIVE AND COMPELLING By Ed Bark

For the next seven Tuesdays and extending to just six days before Christmas, the National Geographic channel will bear arms with its most ambitious, expensive and heavily promoted venture to date...

2017

Nov

SHOWTIME'S ‘SMILF’ IS COMEDY WITH A HIGH MISERY INDEX By Ed Bark

The old “misery loves company” axiom gets a stern test with Showtime’s SMILF (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET)...

2017

Nov

MARGARET ATWOOD'S 'ALIAS GRACE' GIVES NETFLIX A MURDER MYSTERY WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN By Ed Bark

Abused by her drunken father and then brutalized in a women’s prison, Irish immigrant Grace Marks perhaps has gone mad in the process. Or might she be more or less completely sane -- or driven by a dual personality?...

2017

Nov

'S.W.A.T.' IS BACK ON A NETWORK THAT'S ALREADY PERSUADED VIEWERS TO HAVE SECONDS OF 'HAWAII FIVE-0' AND 'MACGYVER' By Ed Bark

WRITER’S NOTE: There are events of far larger import in New York City, but life goes on in network TV. To that end, a review of the newest offering from CBS…

2017

Oct

'FRONTLINE' POURS ON THE RUSSIAN DRESSING WITH 'PUTIN'S REVENGE' By Ed Bark

Frontline’s A to Z Vladimir Putin primer, affixed with the sexier title of Putin’s Revenge, is dutifully sober and cautionary without being particularly revelatory. That is, unless you’ve been paying no attention at all...

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