Harkening back to pivotal gestation periods, conventional TV networks and latter day streamers have offered quite an education lately for those who want to enroll...

2017

Oct

THE CW'S 'VALOR' SOAPS UP ITS MILITARY MOTIF By Ed Bark

Ten-hut. Here comes the last -- and the soapiest -- of this fall’s gung-ho, special ops military dramas...

2017

Oct

TOUCHED BY ABC'S 'KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD' By Ed Bark

Given all the tragedies at hand, none among us should object to what’s essentially a remake of Touched By An Angel...

2017

Oct

CBS' APPETITE FOR CROOK-CATCHING GETS AN APP IN 'WISDOM OF THE CROWD' By Ed Bark

This particular premise didn’t go well earlier this year on Fox...

2017

Oct

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? (NOT ‘GHOSTED’) By Ed Bark

There have been two re-castings in Fox’s Ghosted -- of a supporting player and of Ally Walker’s entire wardrobe...

2017

Sep

ABC'S MARVEL'S 'INHUMANS' IS C-GRADE DRAMA WITH A BETTER THAN AVERAGE VILLAIN By Ed Bark

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...

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Ed Bark

Since 2006, Ed Bark's local and national TV stories and observations have been showcased on his pioneering website, www.unclebarky.com. For 26 years before that, he was TV critic for the Dallas Morning News. He's a past president of the Television Critics Association, and for seven years served on the national Peabody Awards board.

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