NBC, which dominated this season in the ratings battle for advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, is going lean again in 2018-19 with just three new fall series...

2018

May

FOX GOES TRADITIONAL (WHETHER ADMITTING IT OR NOT) WITH LATEST PRIME-TIME MENU By Ed Bark

Adding Thursday Night Football, Last Man Standing, and another laugh track-juiced sitcom set in a retirement home seems like something CBS might do...

2018

May

ABC ADDS/SUBTRACTS IN ABUNDANCE FOR NEW FALL SCHEDULE By Ed Bark

Depending on one’s definition, ABC will either have four or six new prime-time series entering this fall...

2018

May

A TALE OF A CHILDHOOD LOST AND AN ADULTHOOD ON THE BRINK IN SHOWTIME'S 'PATRICK MELROSE' By Ed Bark

Reeling, raging, slurring and hallucinating, the title character in Showtime’s Patrick Melrose begins by riding high while sinking ever lower from non-stop addictions to booze, pills, and injections...

2018

May

#METOO ERA FORMS OF SEXISM – ON THE PART OF WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER By Ed Bark

Your friendly content provider isn’t overly fond of juggling with hand grenades...

2018

May

'VIDA' GIVES STARZ A NEW LOOK SERIES WITH A #METOO OVERLAY By Ed Bark

The Starz network’s latest rebranding campaign -- “The Future is Female. Fearless. Fierce” -- both marches in step with the #MeToo movement and rips some pages from the longstanding Lifetime playbook...

2018

May

DIRE STRAITS LEFT IN THE LURCH DURING HBO'S ANNUAL REPRISE OF THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY By Ed Bark

The man who isn’t there, unfortunately, is the one who stands out at HBO’s annual re-packaging of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony...

2018

May

MICHELLE WOLF AT THE DOOR, BUT HER BEST SNARLS WERE SAVED FOR LAST AT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER By Ed Bark

The detractors and defenders of Michelle Wolf continue to pile up like a chain collision on a slippery freeway...

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