While it is sad to see him gone, George Foreman had a happier ending than many of his world champion peers from the golden age of boxing. The 6-foot-3, two-time heavyweight champion passed away March 21 at 76. While he may always be remembered for being upset by a rebounding Muhammad Ali in 1974, his
Generally I do not watch shows such as Adolescence. This bracing, relentlessly unsettling, four-part British drama, however, is so arresting it demands attention. Having recently premiered on Netflix, it is unlike any other police investigation series I’ve ever seen. Here is what it is about. A police tactical team swarms a suburban house, burst into
Goodpods Top 100 Television Podcasts Listen now to brioux.tv: the podcast Ali Weinstein is the writer/producer/director behind “Your Tomorrow,” a look at Ontario Place the summer before it was shut down after 52 years. For over five decades a 155-acre Toronto waterfront sanctuary, it is being radically redeveloped. Gone are 850 West Island trees. Instead
Last Sunday’s three-and-a-half hour coverage of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s resounding Liberal Party leadership win was also a victory for the CBC. The late afternoon broadcast drew close to a million overnight, estimated viewers combined on CBC and CBC News Network. The overnight totals break down this way: CBC News Network 549,000; CBC Total 437,000.
While I’m not crazy about the too-inside basketball title, Netflix’s sports comedy Running Point is off to a fast start. The series stars Kate Hudson as reformed party girl Isla Gordon, who vaults from being the overlooked coordinator of charitable endeavours to becoming the very hands-on president of the Los Angeles Waves pro basketball team.
When the folks at Zoomer magazine asked me to write a feature celebrating “The Sound of Music” at 60, I immediately reached for a copy I have of the original roadshow screening of the movie. (You can read that story here at Everything Zoomer). Movie studios used to publish these lavish, hard cover magazine-style mementos
CTV’s three hour and forty-eight minute simulcast of Sunday’s 97th Annual Oscar Awards was watched by an overnight, estimated audience in Canada of 3,236,000 viewers. That’s down from 3.5 million in 2024. While the year before featured a contest between big box office draws such as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” I’ve already forgotten the names of
While it is sad to see him gone, George Foreman had a happier ending than many of his world champion peers from the golden age of boxing. The 6-foot-3, two-time heavyweight champion passed away March 21 at 76. While he may always be remembered for being upset by a rebounding Muhammad Ali in 1974, his
One of Canada’s most beloved TV stars has passed away. For six of the last seven seasons and 100 episodes, Diesel vom Burgimwald played Rex, the astonishing German Shepherd who patrolled the streets of St. John’s, Nfld., with his police partner Det. Charlie Hudson (John Reardon) on Citytv’s Hudson & Rex. This past week, Sherri
“TORONTO GOAL SCORED BY NUMBER 27, DARRYL SITTLER…TIME, FIVE-O-FOUR. UNASSISTED… TOMORROW AFTERNOON THE MARLIES PLAY HOST TO THE PETERBOROUGH PETES…” Paul Morris’s straight forward goal announcing still rings in my ears to this day even though he ceased to be the Toronto Maple Leafs’ public address announcer at the end of the last century. He
Back when Twin Peaks premiered in 1989, there were no little people speaking backwards on television. Plenty of double talk, but nothing even close to the nightmarish, fascinating world of David Lynch. The award-winning filmmaker, painter and artist passed away Jan. 15 after years of declining health due to emphysema after a lifetime of smoking.
At one point during CNN’s cocktail coverage on New Year’s Eve, Anderson Cooper sobered up long enough to salute a news network mentor and friend: Aaron Brown. Brown, 76, an award-winning ABC and CNN news anchor and journalist, died December 29 in Washington. Part of a deep bench led by Peter Jennings at ABC News
Even as the year draws to a close, 2024 keeps taking them away from us. Jimmy Carter, America’s best ex-president, died Dec. 29 at 100. Olivia Hussey, famed for director Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo & Juliet” but also a lead in the shot-in-Canada slasher flick “Black Christmas,” gone two days earlier at 73. TCM always does
