The X Factor and The Voice both return this week, with NBC scheduling a three-night Voice event that, on Wednesday, airs opposite X Factor's season premiere...

2012

Sep

'THE NEW NORMAL' COULD USE A LIGHTER TOUCH By Ed Bark

NBC's The New Normal is both audacious and sometimes unintentionally off-putting, but not because of its subject matter...

2012

Sep

A&E'S SLEEP-INDUCING 'COMA' By Ed Bark

Despite an Oscar-honored cast and notable producers (including the late Tony Scott) A&E's Coma is best experienced while unconscious...

2012

Aug

HERE COMES KEITEL IN 'FATAL HONEYMOON' By Ed Bark

Not that many years ago, the chances of Harvey Keitel doing a Lifetime movie might have been less than Don Ho being voted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...

2012

Aug

GSN'S GAME SHOW OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS By Ed Bark

Whatever your religious beliefs — or lack thereof — The American Bible Challenge is good for the soul. It's also the best new game show in years...

2012

Aug

IT'S GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS FOR ABC'S 'NIGHTLINE' By Ed Bark

In what amounts to Ted Koppel's worst nightmare, Nightline will be pushed back an hour to accomodate Jimmy Kimmel Live...

2012

Aug

MICHAEL J. FOX TO LEAD HIS OWN NBC SERIES By Ed Bark

Former Family Ties star Michael J. Fox — most recently seen guest-starring on shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Good Wife — has inked a deal to do his own show with NBC...

2012

Aug

'INBETWEENERS' DOESN'T MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION By Ed Bark

MTV's new teen comedy The Inbetweeners, adapted from the same-named hit British series, gets better with age, even though the featured high school boys don't show any undue signs of maturity...

2012

Aug

PHYLLIS DILLER: 1917-2012 By Ed Bark

Phyllis Diller, who took self-deprecating humor to new highs (or lows if you prefer), died on Monday, Aug. 20 at the age of 95...

2012

Aug

STARZ'S 'BOSS' IS BACK By Ed Bark

The Kelsey Grammer-paced saga of a corrupt Chicago mayor with a terminal hallucinatory brain disease returns with its at times loopy gravitas also intact...

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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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