‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ Is Limited by its Host’s Stardom: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’s been almost two decades since Kelly Ripa took over as co-host of the show now known as “Live With Kelly and Ryan”; her 20th anniversary comes in February. This time 20 years ago, Ripa says, she was sure that the job she’d end up getting hired for was an impossible one.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTwo years ago, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” was the most pleasant of surprises — though perhaps “pleasant” is not the word. The series was often terrifying, thanks in part to strong pacing, performances that worked across the board and a willingness to wear an unusual ambition and intellect proudly.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVThree weeks after the premiere of The Drew Barrymore Show, the new daytime syndicated talker got a parody on Saturday Night Live. The NBC late-night sketch show used the spoof to also mention the controversy surrounding another daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which played out while SNL was on hiatus.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticToo often, period pieces about the making of America treat the past with undue dignity, turning the raucousness and rambunctiousness of a two-and-a-quarter-century pageant of personalities into a chamber piece. American history is serious, sure, but it’s also giddy and strange, and too few entertainments treat it that way.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticParis has long been the staging ground for a particular sort of American fantasy, one that tends to bring the characteristics of Americans into sharp relief. In the final episodes of “Sex and the City,” to cite one example, Carrie Bradshaw attempts a warm embrace of all the City of Light has to offer, but finds that she may in fact be too warm, that the cool briskness of Paris is making her someone she does not recognize.

SZA has been announced as the musical guest on an upcoming episode of Drew Barrymore’s new talk show.The TDE singer-songwriter will perform her 2017 single ‘Drew Barrymore’ on The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday (October 1). She will also sit down with the actor for an interview.After the song was originally released, an accompanying video was shared that featured a brief cameo from the Charlie’s Angels and E.T.

Janet W. Lee In a near-perfect twist of fate, SZA will perform her hit track “Drew Barrymore” on the actor’s new daytime talk show on Oct.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAn Israeli-produced series debuting on Apple TV Plus, “Tehran” is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens.

Drew Barrymore showed ET's Kevin Frazier just how the magic is done on her new talk show, . We got a behind-the-scenes look at the amazing 3D technology used to take it to the next level when it comes to her guests who are thousands of miles away.«I'm so proud of this technology. I think this is really groundbreaking,» Barrymore tells ET.

 Mariah Carey  has a long awaited memoir coming out September 29th titled, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. The queen of Christmas sat down with Oprah Winfrey for the talk-show host‘s Apple TV+ series The Oprah Conversation to discuss her process and the stories inside.

Drew Barrymore and Paris Hilton are looking back at their time in solitary confinement.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“The Walking Dead” is edging up, this October, to its tenth anniversary on the air. That decade of ratings dominance has seen our own world grow nihilistic enough to make the series feel more tonally appropriate to the mood of the moment.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOpening this year’s Emmy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel told the audience — the one at home, given that there was no one sitting before him in the stands of the Staples Center — that there were a great many moving parts in piecing together the ceremony. He asked, mordantly, “What could possibly go right?”It turns out: Quite a bit.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’s perhaps surprising Kim Cattrall hadn’t yet headlined a soap opera. As Samantha Jones on “Sex and the City,” her slyness and way with a pun came to be revealed as elegant concealments of the character’s deep need.

Emmy Awards air Sunday at 5 p.m.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn its first three seasons, “Fargo” found a surprising amount of elasticity within its constrained format. Each installment borrowed the tone of Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 Midwestern noir, which places human greed against a setting of frigid climate and rigid propriety, to tell increasingly complicated crime stories.

Until his death in 1989 at the age of 74, not even his wife or adoptive children knew that jazz pianist Billy Tipton had been anything other than a cisgender man. According to No Ordinary Man — a new documentary about Tipton’s legacy as a transmasculine icon — the musician became fodder for daytime talk shows and supermarket tabloids shortly after his death, with Oprah Winfrey and her also-rans prying into the marriage between Tipton and his common-law widow Kitty Kelly.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAmidst an ever-more-crowded universe for streaming services, Peacock is emerging as a place that’s good at one very particular thing: Pulpy imports that pack fantastical intrigue into short runs, and that are better than they strictly need to be.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIf America’s modern space age began in the 1960s, it hit a wall in 1986 with the Challenger disaster, when the U.S. space shuttle by that name exploded during takeoff, killing all seven crew members aboard.

Global’s “The Drew Barrymore Show” is off to a nostalgic start.