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2014

Aug

FX’S MOSTLY UNDER THE RADAR 'PARTNERS' STARS TWO GUYS NAMED KELSEY GRAMMER AND MARTIN LAWRENCE By Ed Bark

The stars are well-known brand names. Their deliveries are broad but polished with the veneer of two vets who know their way around the old multi-cam, studio audience-juiced format. Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are the front men for Partners, an odd couple-ish pairing of lawyers that premieres on Monday, Aug. 4th with back-to-back episodes...

2014

Jul

THE WOODCHIPPER BECKONS By Ed Bark

Flush with 18 Emmy nominations for FX's Fargo, executive producer/head writer Noah Hawley half-jokingly fears the worst as he begins piecing together a followup that will be set 27 years earlier, tell an all-new story and be without any of the actors who made the first season so special..

2014

Jul

QUOTES FROM THE TCA HOMESTRETCH By Ed Bark

As the latest Television Critics Association "press tour" heads for the homestretch, here's a broad sampling of answers in mass interview sessions generated by questions from TV Worth Watching...

2014

Jul

HOW I SHOT YOUR SITCOM: ONE CAMERA, OR MULTI? By Ed Bark

Single-cam vs. multi-cam... CBS won't have any single-cam comedies on its schedule in the coming season. NBC will be without any multi-cams this fall...

2014

Jul

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK TO THE TV: IT'S 'SHARKNADO 2' By Ed Bark

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- Don't think too deeply about Sharknado -- as if that were even a remote possibility...

2014

Jul

'BETTER CALL SAUL': VINCE GILLIGAN SPILLS DETAILS ABOUT 'BREAKING BAD' PREQUEL By Ed Bark

2002: A Breaking Bad time and space odyssey. "I hesitate to say it, but it is indeed a period piece," creator and co-executive producer Vince Gilligan said Friday of AMC's Better Call Saul. "I can't believe it myself..."

2014

Jul

66TH PRIMETIME EMMY NOMS A MISHMASH OF DELIVERY AND CATEGORIES By Ed Bark

The 66th Primetime Emmy Award nominations, announced Thursday during the early stages of summer's Television Critics Association "press tour," were a bigger mishmash than ever of delivery systems and ill-fitting categories...

2014

Jul

POEHLER OPPOSITES IN NBC'S INVITING 'WELCOME TO SWEDEN' By Ed Bark

Talk Swedish to me, baby. NBC’s new summertime comedy plus, Welcome to Sweden, does so at length in most of its 10 episodes. The network sent all of them for review, and I kept watching until the supply was exhausted...

2014

Jul

'EXTANT' GIVES CBS ANOTHER 13-EPISODE SCI-FI SUMMER SPLASH By Ed Bark

As did Under the Dome at this time last year, CBS’s second big summertime splash opens with an impressive and involving first chapter... Extant, a futuristic, 13-episode drama starring Halle Berry as a very vexed astronaut, looks to be more firmly grounded...

2014

Jun

TNT'S 'MURDER IN THE FIRST' LETS BOCHCO BE BOCHCO By Ed Bark

TNT’s latest crime drama, Murder in the First, is straight-ahead Steven Bochco. Which begs the question: Does the now 70-year-old maestro behind Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue still have some pop? Well, yes, he does...

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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.