‘Let the Right One In’ Is a Vampire Saga Without Juice: TV Review

Mike Tindall, who is the son-in-law of Princess Anne, has described himself as an "open book" ahead of entering the jungle this weekend.The 44-year-old, married to Zara Phillips, is the first royal to take part on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.Last week, a source told the Daily Mail that the monarch wouldn't have approved of him signing up for the show.Despite this, Mike has said he is an "open book", seemingly implying that he isn't afraid to share his stories. His words came after he was asked what the biggest misconception he wanted to dispel in the jungle was, to which he also replied: "Nothing."Mike went on to say he is a "positive person" and a "morning motivator" who wants to see "everyone get on well" in camp.Karren Brady fears for royals 'shivering' over Prince Harry's bookThe former sportsman is also not afraid to take part in the trials, but refused to mention his phobias.Mike said he has been warned about the lack of food in camp by his former rugby co-star James Haskell.The rugby star, married to Chloe Madeley, took part on the show back in 2019 and said his body "shut down" due to the significant change in his diet.Mike added: “I am eight years out of the game now so I am a bit more realistic about food, but I know James said the lack of food can sometimes be hard."But at least with the eating trials, you get food in you!"It might not taste very nice but at least it is serving a purpose and giving you a protein intake.

Piers Morgan, 57, has hit out at renowned actor Bradley Whitford, 63, on Twitter after the actor warned that Elon Musk, 51, taking over the platform will be a “recipe for disaster”. In retaliation Piers, who is a self-professed fan of Elon, retaliated by calling The West Wing star a “big baby”. Elon completed his $44bn (£37.9bn) takeover of Twitter on Friday, renaming himself as "Chief Twit" on his profile. The billionaire’s purchase of the site has been controversial, leaving many worrying about the changes he plans to make to the social media platform. This morning, Bradley took to Twitter to warn about the takeover in view of his 480,700 followers. “Entitled batsh*t billionaires in charge of the public square is the opposite of freedom and a recipe for disaster,” he wrote. This evening, Piers, who only recently defended Elon, decided to hit back at the actor in front of his 7.9 million followers. Piers wrote: “As opposed to entitled batsh*t actors who - unlike @elonmusk - think any views that challenge their own woke-ravaged self-righteous rantings warrant instant cancellation? “Put your rattle back in your illiberal stroller, you big baby,” he added. Just today, Piers wrote a new column entitled “Elon Musk has exposed the woke left as a bunch of illiberal crybabies who despise free speech”.

We know that, for most people, splurging on fashion means buying designer bags, shoes and statement pieces. But have you ever thought about making a more serious investment in your underwear? You wear it every day, so why not choose something actually comfortable?

Halloween queens! The Kardashian-Jenner family is known to go all out for the holidays — and based on their 2022 costumes, Halloween is no exception.

Turning the drama up a notch. After wrapping up their feuds ahead of season 13, it wasn’t long before the Real Housewives of New Jersey cast once again found themselves at odds.

What was inside the mysterious envelope? There’s a lot of talk about receipts Lisa Rinna brought to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion — and Andy Cohen finally shared the tea.

A four-year-old girl is in hospital after allegedly being violently attacked in her home in the middle of the night. The youngster, who can't be named for legal reasons, was allegedly the victim of an attempted murder in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police have launched an urgent search for a man who vanished wearing a Rangers top in Kilmarnock.

A dad who sparked fears of a gas blast at his Coatbridge home has been placed under supervision and tagged for three months.

Edinburgh is set to be the first UK city to introduce a tourist tax. The City of Edinburgh Council has agreed plans for a £2 per person per night tax, limited at seven nights, for all paid accommodation except campsites.

Director Thomas Napper (“Jawbone”) is behind a new feature film that will chronicle the gritty journey in the early years of the Veuve Clicquot vineyard in 19th-century France. The film brings to life the fascinating young woman behind the iconic orange label that helped transform the French champagne house into something iconic.

Directed by Ben Stiller and from his RedHour productions, the Apple TV+ series surreal office works thriller “Severance” became a massive hit in the winter of 2022. Trying to capitalize on the buzz, Apple TV is moving fast on season two and has added a bevy of new actors as production has begun.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo sinks his teeth into Showtime’s new vampire series, “Let the Right One In.” The show follows a father and a 12-year-old girl who traditionally live a closed-off life after the daughter is turned into a vampire as they return home to New York City and the lives they once had. The series stars Demián Bichir, Madison Taylor Baez, Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer, Nick Stahl, and more.  READ MORE: The Best TV Of 2022… So Far, ‘The Bear’ & More “Let the Right One In” showrunner Andrew Hinderaker joins the podcast to discuss how and why he had to get involved with the long-form adaptation of the beloved novel and pair of films.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “Bombay felt exhilaratingly free, a place where everyone started new.” That’s Lin Ford, played by Charlie Hunnam, speaking to us in voice-over about the city where he hopes to begin again. Today known as Mumbai, the Indian metropolis is many things; on “Shantaram,” it’s the staging ground for a white fugitive to lose and find himself. It’s that dynamic that tends to frustrate over the course of a long season. Based on the novel by Gregory David Roberts and executive produced by Steve Lightfoot, “Shantaram” is set in the 1980s, in the wake of Lin’s prison break. Making his way out of an Australian penal institution in the pilot episode, Lin, a recovering heroin addict, seeks to disappear into a city of millions before, potentially, moving on, but is perpetually drawn toward an intriguing, possibly amoral woman named Karla (Antonia Desplat). Rooted in place by this sense of nascent romance and by a growing affection for the place and its people, Lin begins establishing a life, even while repeatedly telling us that he’s aware that his past — his identity as a wanted man and his knowledge that he’s being urgently sought by the authorities — makes all of this a holiday from reality.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Mike Flanagan has, of late, distinguished himself as one of Netflix’s signature creators and as a generational figure in the horror genre; though his past series for the streamer, including “Midnight Mass” and “The Haunting of Hill House,” have been of various quality overall and from episode to episode, they’re consistently interesting. His willingness to engage ideas with his scares sets him apart, perhaps more than it should. So it is with “The Midnight Club,” which Flanagan and Leah Fong co-created based on the work of YA novelist Christopher Pike. Here, Iman Benson plays Ilonka, a college-bound high school salutatorian who receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Ilonka is both a star student and an idealist; she researches Brightcliffe, a facility to which her foster father can take her to be placed into hospice, and holds in reserve a secret hope that there will, there, be a miracle cure for her. What she finds, first, is a circle of ill teens who gather when the clock strikes twelve to share scary stories; it’s a mordant nihilism they share, and a sense of indulgent pleasure in the knowledge that things could be worse: They could be fighting against cosmic forces of evil.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic It’s been said that former President Donald Trump corrupts all who enter his orbit — that it’s impossible to deal directly with him without taking on his amorality and crassness. “The Lincoln Project,” a new documentary series on Showtime, depicts that process among his political opposition. Here, people devoted to ousting Trump mirror his rhetorical style and his self-regard. And it’s in subtly making this case that the documentary succeeds, even as it grows punishing to watch. The Lincoln Project, a circle of former high-level Republican strategists who made viral anti-Trump ads, seemed throughout the 2020 presidential election to be, Trumpishly, more focused on brand promotion than political work. “No one’s ever fucked with a candidate like we’ve fucked with a candidate,” Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson says early in the doc; those schemes include a Times Square billboard, attention-getting for attention’s sake.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight” is the single best film about journalism of our era. So while it comes as no surprise that the writer-director’s take on life at a daily paper for ABC is substantially better than the average 2020s network drama, it’s certainly good news. On the McCarthy-created “Alaska Daily,” Hilary Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, a high-powered newspaper reporter whose reporting comes into question in the pilot’s early going; her losing her job is as much about the claims against her work as it is about the fact that her sudden vulnerability opens up a conversation about her habit of talking down to colleagues. Suddenly, she’s spinning her wheels, endlessly reporting a book that may never see daylight; the conditions are perfect for her to accept the offer of a former mentor (“Scandal’s” Jeff Perry, excellent) to take a job in Anchorage.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The first two seasons of “The Mole” came at a remarkable moment for the genre of reality TV. Premiering in 2001, the series was made during that brief and delicate time when competitors on mainstream broadcast unscripted series hadn’t yet figured out how to slip into the roles with which we’re familiar. Tasked with determining who among their number was sabotaging group challenges, the show’s cast members allowed themselves to be, well, themselves — ragged and un-telegenic and embarrassingly earnest and real. Eventually retooled into an all-celebrities format, the show lost what made it special and went away, but fans remember both the intrigue of the show’s gameplay and the rawness of its players.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “East New York” fits neatly into CBS’ battery of dramas about law enforcement, from “The Equalizer” to the “CSI” revival. But credit it with this much: In its roundabout way, it has more on its mind than one might expect at first blush. Set in a Brooklyn neighborhood where the beginnings of gentrification rub up uncomfortably against families who’ve lived there for generations, “East New York” is relatively careful in its presentation of cops and policing as flawed tools in need of rethinking, and boasts a charismatic lead who can make you believe, for an hour of primetime, that such change might be possible. We meet Regina Haywood (Amanda Warren of “The Leftovers” and “Dickinson”) as she’s getting a manicure; the robbery of a dollar van outside gets her attention, and draws her out to the street. She’s very early in her tenure as precinct chief, and this comes as a wake-up call of sorts; Regina is, soon enough, working to reduce quotas for arrests on petty crime and chicanery in the interrogation room, all with a single-minded focus on addressing major crime’s root causes. Her long-term goal is for the cops she oversees to live in the neighborhood they defend; she’s willing to start with placing an eager underling, Officer Brandy Quinlan (Olivia Luccardi), in an apartment procured by city housing.