‘The Duchess’ Is a Tasteless Misfire by Netflix: TV Review

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.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe best talk show hosts are made into stars by the medium. To wit: Rosie O’Donnell was a well-known comic and actor but hardly the dynamo she eventually became when she began her daily show.

Kelly Ripa was forced to present her show Live with Kelly and Ryan solo on Thursday and she was a smash hit. The much-loved host was on set without her co-host, Ryan Seacrest, and fans not only pointed out it was a first but also went crazy for her performance. "Has anyone ever hosted this show alone before?" one of her Instagram followers commented on a post. "I don’t think so.

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.

Kelly Ripa recently recreated a family photo with her three children, Michael, Lola and Joaquin, which had been taken on the beach when her youngest son was just a few weeks old.MORE: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos make major announcementThe Hope and Faith actress was the first to admit she didn't look too happy in the picture, and revealed the hilarious backstory to the shot during a segment on Live with Kelly and Ryan.Chatting to host Ryan Seacrest, Kelly said: "My most popular Instagram post

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.

Reba McEntire is opening up about how the late Kenny Rogers helped her through a devastating time in her career.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticParis Hilton has been in the “due for a re-evaluation” stage of her career for far longer than she was evaluated in the first place.In 2008, a documentary about Hilton, entitled “Paris, Not France,” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; in it, Hilton, one of several women whose time in the limelight in the 2000s descended into an acrimonious war waged by and on the media, attempted to explain why she’d been treated unfairly.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe tide of symbolism in “The Third Day,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show. But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the same.The six-part series is broken into two halves but united by setting: A surreal island called Osea somewhere in the United Kingdom, one governed by ritual and a sort of magic, surrounded by choppy and threatening seas and accessible only by narrow causeway.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb has urged Moscow to "tell the truth" about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying it is "absolutely unacceptable" the Russian opposition leader was poisoned by the same nerve agent deployed in Salisbury.  Rabb said on Wednesday that Russia has "a clear case to answer" after the German government said the Kremlin critic was targeted with Novichok in an attempted murder. Britain has long accused Russian operatives of using the Soviet-era poison against Sergei

Netflix is taking viewers back to school in gritty new drama series “Grand Army”.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn Hulu’s “Woke,” cartoonist Keef Knight (Lamorne Morris, recently of “New Girl”) sees his world shaken into surreality by an experience that’s sadly common. After a run-in with violent, racist police officers who stop short of taking his life but manhandle and humiliate him in the process, Keef begins to hear the accoutrements of his life — pens, photos of himself, liquor bottles — speaking to him in frank and often harsh tones.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Diego is the first major California market in California to see indoor movie theaters reopening with the AMC Cinemas and Regal Cinemas chains back in business this weekend.AMC is reopening seven of its nine sites in San Diego County on Friday, a spokesman said.

AMC Theaters announced on Tuesday that approximately 70% of its locations will be open this coming Labor Day weekend for the release of Warner Bros.’ “Tenet,” including seven California theaters in San Diego County.In total, approximately 420 AMC locations will be open nationwide starting this Thursday, including 140 locations that are opening for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The San Diego locations are being opened in accordance with California Gov.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThis just in. AMC will have 70% of its circuit open this weekend, counting 420 locations.