George Maharis has taken his final exit from Route 66. I interviewed the actor on the phone in 2012 when he was promoting Route 66: The Complete Series, a 24 disc boxed set from Shout! Factory. Maharis, 94, died May 24 at his home in Beverly Hills. A decade earlier, he spoke candidly about his
Look at these two. Do they not look bored out of their minds? Trapped in a series so out of touch with society today it literally takes place in the middle of the road. Why is Carrie wearing a shower curtain over Red Green’s old bathrobe? Is Aidan off to face certain Peloton death? Please
Despite some less than stellar reviews, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first-ever TV series, FURBAR, was the most-viewed offering last week on Netflix. The 10-episode series kinda looks at what Schwarzenegger’s agent character from “True Lies” might be doing now that he is nearing retirement age. In real life, Arnold is 75. Shot in Toronto, Mississauga and Oakville,
When we left off this TV purchasing epic, all the pieces were in place. I had my TV – a 65-inch Samsung which came in an even larger box, and a ready-to-assemble TV stand to accommodate said TV. Now all I needed was someone to help me put it all together. Who ya gonna call,
Now that John Doyle has retired as the TV critic of The Globe and Mail, how are we supposed to make sense of it all? Where is our roadmap out of the madness that is Canadian television? It is all right here, friends, in this handy and convenient, click and listen podcast episode. Hear Doyle
It wasn’t easy being Mary Tyler Moore. Sure, she starred in two of TV’s most beloved sitcoms. She won Emmys, Golden Globes and a special Tony and had the respect of her peers as well as her colleagues. But oh, the heartaches. It was a good thing she had spunk. Past TV biographies have skimmed
The action is all on the movie side of the Netflix Top-10 this week. While Jennifer Lopez’s “Mother” continues to top the English Films and the tops in Canada list. the new docuseries “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” scored the No. 2 position in it’s opening weekend. On the series side, Queen Charlotte:
George Maharis has taken his final exit from Route 66. I interviewed the actor on the phone in 2012 when he was promoting Route 66: The Complete Series, a 24 disc boxed set from Shout! Factory. Maharis, 94, died May 24 at his home in Beverly Hills. A decade earlier, he spoke candidly about his
Did you grow up with Mr. Dressup? How about The Friendly Giant or Polka-Dot Door? Starting today, those shows and many others are being saluted this spring and summer at the Myseum of Toronto. The exhibit is titled, “Mr. Dressup to Degrassi: 42 Years of Legendary Toronto Kids TV.” The retrospective goes all the way
If you are a certain age in Canada, and you still have your memory, you can name at least five members of the 1971 Toronto Argonauts. You know exactly where you were when Paul Henderson scored. And you know how many times the church bell chimed for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. There was
Final thoughts, as Jerry Springer used to say, on Jerry Springer. When the news broke Thursday that the 79-year-old former syndicated TV host had died of cancer, requests came in from CTV News (see that report with Marcia MacMillan here), CP24, NewsTalk 1010 (listen to that conversation with Jim Richards here) and CHML. They all
Harry Belafonte made a lasting impression a dozen years ago on a visit before Television Critics Association reporters. The activist/singer, one of the last Black Civil Rights icons of the 1960s, passed away Tuesday, April 25. He was 96. Back in July of 2011, he stood out as a towering figure from a golden age
Len Goodman, for many years the head judge on Dancing with the Stars, has gone to the big ballroom in the sky. He passed away Sunday, April 23rd, just a few days shy of his 79th birthday. As a young man, the elegant Goodman was an apprentice welder for a famous British shipbuilding company. In