Resemblances to Modern Family are purely intentional in CBS’ Life in Pieces, which begins episodes with the printed promise of “One big family. Four short stories. Every week.” CBS has even gone the extra step of making Life in Pieces a single-cam comedy...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'MINORITY REPORT' LOOKS GREAT AND PLAYS WELL, TOO By Ed Bark

Production-wise, Fox’s Minority Report looks handsomer than either Rob Lowe or John Stamos, the venerable hunks fronting the network’s two new fall sitcoms. The two leads and opening story line aren’t bad either...

2015

Sep

NBC'S 'BLINDSPOT' GETS ITS TATTOOS ON By Ed Bark

Wentworth Miller sported a big batch of tattoos as the jailed Michael Scofield on Fox’s Prison Break. But his body of work can’t nearly match the head-to-toe illustrated woman on NBC’s new drama series Blindspot...

2015

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WHO'S GOING TO WIN AN EMMY ON SUNDAY NIGHT? By Ed Bark

“Television’s Biggest Night” (why do they keep saying that?) returns Sunday in the form of the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards...

2015

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FOR STARTERS, STEPHEN COLBERT'S 'LATE SHOW' HAS SOME STRONG FINISHING KICKS By Ed Bark

Stephen Colbert now has five shows and counting as host of the CBS Late Show. So here’s a little advice -- unsolicited, of course -- on how he could do better by both the audience and himself...

2015

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SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS: FX'S 'THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER' By Ed Bark

Violence. Depravity. Turf wars. Casting his wife, Katey Sagal, in the midst of it all. Creator/producer Kurt Sutter is a big fan, as he showed time and again during seven seasons of Son of Anarchy. His FX follow-up is The Bastard Executioner, a bloody, mystical but not magical saga...

2015

Sep

VIOLENCE VS. SEX: ON TV IT'S STILL NO CONTEST WHEN IT COMES TO SHOWING AND TELLING By Ed Bark

Getting away with violence is not much of a problem anymore on broadcast or basic cable networks, both of which are advertiser-supported. But sex continues to be quite another thing...

2015

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REVIEWING AMAZON PRIME'S 'HAND OF GOD' AFTER A FULL SEASON 1 IMMERSION By Ed Bark

Amazon Prime publicity materials for Hand of God describe it as the saga of a “law-bending,” somewhat all-powerful judge who “begins to rely on ‘visions’ and ‘messages’ he believes are being sent” from on high via his ventilator-bound son...

2015

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REVIEWING NETFLIX'S 'NARCOS' AFTER VIEWING ALL 10 SEASON 1 EPISODES By Ed Bark

Netflix’s Narcos, which began streaming on Aug. 28, is the latest to recount the life and very turbulent times of Pablo Escobar, whose thirst for violent reprisal claimed hundreds if not thousands of live...

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