‘Mr. Mayor,’ From Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, Is an Unworthy Heir to ’30 Rock’: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticBritney Spears was a symbol for her entire public life. And, even in her seclusion, we can’t stop seeing her as something more, and less, than simply a person.The new Samantha Stark-directed documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” produced by the New York Times and airing on Feb.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Kevin Durant and his Thirty Five Ventures partner Rich Kleiman are about to launch a slew of shows on their vertical The Boardroom. Among them is the tentatively titled “The Sneaker Game,” which focuses on the $75 billion sneaker industry.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe Dale was too good to be true. A three-wheeled two-seater, the jaunty, rounded little auto sallied forth at the height of the 1970s oil crisis, with a supposed 70 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency that rebuked all other automakers.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn its first season, “Euphoria” was a lightning bolt.The HBO series, crackling with oddity and possibility, generated noise and light in a manner that felt new, and overdue. The show told stories about the TikTok generation with all the emotional excess that comes with actually being a teen.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRussell Tovey is one of TV’s great discoveries of the last several years. The British actor seems perpetually cast as the cad, the overly assured fellow whose pride brings him in for a fall — and yet his charm and some innate vulnerable quality a couple of layers down keep us, if not ever on his side, then at least engaged in what lies ahead for him.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe CBS drama “Walker, Texas Ranger” — co-created by eventual Oscar-winner Paul Haggis and airing from 1993 to 2001 — was foundational to the myth of Chuck Norris.

Tracee Ellis Ross has given fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of her role as Grace Davis in The High Note. The black-ish star, 48, took to Instagram on January 15 to share a series of pics and videos — and she looks exactly like her legendary mom, Diana Ross! In the first clip, Tracee posed for a photoshoot wearing nothing but high-waisted black pants, and a metallic, backless crop top. She also rocked a black choker, and styled her hair in bouncy curls.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla NBCUniversal’s newest sitcom series “Mr. Mayor,” a comedic, skeptical take on city government co-created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, opened to solid numbers in its Thursday night debut on Jan.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticPerhaps it’s because the present moment is so unsettled that “Call Your Mother,” ABC’s new sitcom from “The New Adventures of Old Christine” creator Kari Lizer, manages to feel in its pilot episode more comforting than it otherwise might.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRichard Ramirez’s spree of terror through the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Areas in 1984 and 1985 made for a psyche-shredding media fixation: The so-called “Night Stalker’s” rapaciousness — targeting people seemingly at random and with an appetite for violence that set him apart even among the history of psychopaths — provided insatiable fodder for television reports, a side effect that both burnished Ramirez’s legend and increased the effects of his reign

Guy Lodge Film CriticAs a cinematographer, if you spend the bulk of your career shooting classy big-budget productions for Hollywood heavyweights, it’s conceivable that you might occasionally get a B-movie hankering: Even gourmet chefs crave the sloppy pleasures of a Big Mac now and then. Janusz Kaminski gets the urge rarely, it seems, but when it strikes, he takes to the director’s chair.

Chris Rock in them! The 55-year-old comedian appeared on Monday's where he addressed the rumors that he was considered to play George Costanza in the hit series . «I just heard that one. I mean, it was a lot of NBC talk,» Rock admitted of possibly being cast as Jerry Seinfeld's best friend on the sitcom, a role that ultimately went to Jason Alexander.

immediately said yes,” Moynihan, 43, tells The Post. Airing Thursdays at 8 p.m. — and co-created by Fey and Robert Carlock (“30 Rock”) — the new comedy series follows Neil Bremer (Ted Danson), a retired billboard mogul who’s new to politics but finds himself in the position of serving as LA’s clueless mayor. Moynihan co-stars as his bumbling communications director, Jayden Kwapis, with Holly Hunter co-starring as deputy mayor Arpi Meskimen.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTiger Woods’s story was easy to read as the most inspiring in American sports until the very moment it became among the most depressing. On one side of the pivot point of November 2009 sits a life lived in public as an athlete bound for glory from his earliest days, treated as a Messianic figure by his overweening father and, shortly thereafter, as a culture-shifting superstar by the media.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticArsène Lupin is a character with a great deal of currency to the French; created by author Maurice Leblanc in 1905, this master thief-turned-detective, a master detective has anchored many short stories and films.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe NBC comedy “Mr. Mayor” got a good start in the overnight ratings in its Thursday night debut.The series, which hails from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and stars Ted Danson, aired episodes at both 8 p.m.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRecently, the comic essayist David Sedaris found himself in the midst of a short-lived cycle of criticism for a piece he delivered on CBS’s “Sunday Morning,” which was inelegantly premised on the idea that Sedaris wanted for himself the right to fire service industry employees at will. That this was plainly unworkable became the piece’s punchline, but the moment for this remained poorly chosen.

direct to your inboxMore than 9,000 people have already been vaccinated in Tameside but bosses warn the borough is facing an ‘exponential rise’ in new Covid-19 cases.Greater Manchester is currently locked down for the third time as part of tough nationwide measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.A new more transmissible strain of the virus is now circulating in the region, which is also seeing infection rates and hospital admissions increase again.Leaders say that locally infections have

Alissa Simon Film CriticA naïve teenager comes of age amid the carnage of World War I’s Eastern Front in this propulsive adaptation of Aleksandrs Grins’ 1934 patriotic classic “Blizzard of Souls.” With its muscular direction by former documentarian Dzintars Dreibergs, atmospheric cinematography and careful attention to period detail, this account of a troop of Latvian Riflemen fighting first for the Russian Imperial Army against invading German forces and then for an independent Latvia should