Is that our John Doyle making sense of The World Cup in The Toronto Star? The former TV columnist at The Globe and Mail has come out of retirement to help explain why we are all suddenly mad for soccer as Canada continues to kick its way into contention. This isn’t the first time John
Sorry to take so long to post a review of Office Romance but the film left me a bit rattled. This is a slight, amusing in spots, sweet in others, occasionally vulgar, ultimately forgettable, romantic comedy that premiered a few weeks ago on Netflix. If you are looking for a new rom-com movie to watch,
TSN has millions of reasons to cheer on Canada in Sunday’s World Cup match against South Africa. In their Group round games, Canada has been pulling on average around four million viewers. That electric victory over Qatar a week ago Thursday at BC Place in Vancouver drew an average minute audience of 5.2 million viewers,
Yes, TV is Good. ABC declared it back in the ’90s in their press materials. Now Alan Sepinwall has used the slogan as the name of his new podcast, where he is paired with fellow critic Kathryn VanArendonk. I first met Alan back when that slogan was coined at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual network
When I was living in LA in the mid-’80s I got to know a technical co-ordinator/assistant director named Rick Beren who worked on Cheers. Young and not above camping out on a contruction site to save a dime, he and his girlfriend lived on his boss’s very modern-looking house in the heart of Beverly Hills
There are billions of reasons why, come the fall, CBC will break with tradition and will no longer be carrying NHL games on Saturday nights in Canada. It all comes down to one multi-billion dollar NHL rights deal ending and another just beginning, The old deal, signed in 2013, saw Rogers’ Sportsnet end CBC’s grip
Soccer beats hockey in Canada? Last Friday’s FIFA World Cup match between Canada and Herzegovina, on linear channels alone, drew an overnight, estimated, average minute audience of close to 3.9 million viewers. Most watched on TSN (2,899,000), others on CTV (910,000). An unknown number streamed the game on Crave, so expect the combined-combined total to
When I was living in LA in the mid-’80s I got to know a technical co-ordinator/assistant director named Rick Beren who worked on Cheers. Young and not above camping out on a contruction site to save a dime, he and his girlfriend lived on his boss’s very modern-looking house in the heart of Beverly Hills
At one time jokingly self-billed as “The World’s Slowest-rising Comedian,” Ronnie Schell is rising no more. The actor/comedian passed away Friday in Los Angeles. He was 94. A native of northern California, Schell played semi-pro baseball and then served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He first caught the showbiz bug at iconic Bay-area
If all he ever did was create Turner Classic Movies that would be reason enough to celebrate Ted Turner. There was so much more, however, to the maverick entrepreneur, adventurer, sports team owner, conservationalist and philanthropist, as captured in the TCM Remembers video, above. Jane Fonda’s favourite ex-husband (as she characterizes Turner) passed away Wednesday
One of the shining stars of Canadian television in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s was Dinah Christie. The This Hour Has Seven Days and Party Game performer died Friday, April 10 at 85. The London-born actress-singer came to Toronto with her actor parents at the age of two. In the “born out of a trunk”
I only met him one time, but it was quickly apparent that you never had to guess what Robert Duvall was really thinking. Other reporters have similar stories. He once grumbled publicly about having to go to Canada to shoot great American stories, dismissing Canadian actors as “not good.” The Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and
James Van Der Beek is best remembered for his role as Dawson Leery in the teen drama Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003). The Austin, Texas native, however, who passed away February 11 at 48, also has the rare distinction of playing a version of himself as a character on TV. That was on the ABC sitcom Don’t
