When it comes to this year’s Emmy nominees, it was a very good year to be either a kid, an old pro, or a political satirist.
Review: CBS's new disaster drama “Salvation” fizzles.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough's appearance on 'Late Show' was smug and entitled, says Ken Tucker.
Emmy Nominations 2017: Will new shows like “Stranger Things,” “Atlanta,” and “The Handmaid's Tale” get some love?
Review: Senator Al Franken and David Letterman team up for a new Funny or Die series.
'Will' is another attempt to attract a young audience to great art by modernizing it — except the TNT drama's ideas of modernity are a half-century old.
Review: HBO's four-part music documentary The Defiant Ones follows the rise of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.
Batman meets Elmer Fudd in new DC Comics special issue.

Ken Tucker weighs in on the new season of 'Big Brother.'
FX's new drug drama "Snowfall" looks great, but after so many movies and TV shows mining the drug-slinging macho ethos, it doesn't break any new ground.
A murky melodrama with stilted dialogue, Gypsy — a new 10-episode series that begins streaming on Netflix on Friday — turns out to be a lot more watchable than I thought after I plowed through its first, portentous episode. Much of the credit for Gypsy’s low-level allure must go to star Naomi Watts,
The Morning Joe team responded to President Trump's nasty tweets with a "spasm of self-righteousness."
Ken Tucker reviews Comedy Central's new variety show 'Hood Adjacent' starring James Davis.
The final season of Broadchurch gives fans what they want while also challenging them, says Ken Tucker.
Ken Tucker looks at Fox News's coverage (or lack thereof) around President Trump's new health care bill.
The climax of the episode, titled “Got a Light?” occurs at the KPJK radio station in the 1950s, where a disc jockey plays the Platters hit “My Prayer.”
“Veep” closed out its wily season with a half-hour containing more twists and surprises than a season of “The Bachelorette” set in “Twin Peaks.”
When Prime Suspect premiered in the 1990s, star Helen Mirren and show creator Linda La Plante were rightly hailed for creating one of the most vivid and complex cops in TV history. Mirren’s work as Jane Tennison — an intelligent, overworked, embittered drone — was a revelation, not least of all because
Ken Tucker reviews the new season of USA's Playing House.
The new "Gong Show" is at once true to the original and very different.
An inspirational comedy-drama about women in tights, 'GLOW' is a new Netflix series starring Alison Brie premiering June 23.

Ken Tucker reviews Spike's adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Mist.'
Ken Tucker reviews the Season 3 finale of "Better Call Saul."
Megyn Kelly spent the nearly 20-minute segment of her interview with Alex Jones playing clips of him spreading conspiracy theories and lies.
Enough Canadians enjoyed “Cardinal” to get the mystery renewed for a second season even before it made its American premiere on Hulu, but ...