Last week, we welcomed back the CBC drama Saint-Pierre with a conversation with the stars, Allan Hawco and Josephine Jobert. In Part Two of my coverage of the Monday night series, meet Robina Lord-Stafford. Not only does she have one of the coolest names in Canadian television, she is also, along with Hawco, the co-creator
Television viewing in the 21st century is an embarrassment of riches. But why is is so hard to find something to watch? I’ve got 34 channels in my cable package, Netflix, Apple TV+, CBC Gem, Amazon Prime and Disney, plus Tubi and Pluto. And still, I can spend almost as much time looking for something
Today, January 12, marks 60 years since the caped crusader hit the small screen. On that date in 1966, TV’s original Batman landed with a Bam! Pow! Splat! For me and other eight-year-olds in schoolyards across North America, it was a mind-blowing moment. I can still recall the excitement of watching the very first episode.
At the start of this conversation recorded before Christmas at the CBC broadcast centre in Toronto, Allan Hawco reminded me that I’ve been tailing him for 20 years — back to the launch of Republic of Doyle in 2005. Hawco and French costar Josephine Jobert are back with 12 new episodes of Saint-Pierre, the highest-rated sophomore series
I can’t wait to talk to my Humble & Fred pals Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson (next visit: January 20) about “CFNY: The Spirit of Radio.” The documentary, from Highball TV, recently premiered on TVO and can be streamed on TVO’s digital platforms, including right here on YouTube. The film is credited to Matt Schichter
I survived the great Chevy Chase Show debacle of 1993. Members of the Television Critics Association, in Los Angeles for our semi-annual network television press tour, were shuttled to the home of the doomed talk show in advance of the premiere. It was not that much in advance as an ambitious makeover had not finished
Congratulations to Sweden, which won the World Junior Championships Monday night in Minnesota by defeating Czechia 4 to 2 After slipping out of the medals at the last three WJH championships, Canada defeated Finland Monday to earn the bronze. A step in the right direction for our 19-and-under hockey reps, but not the gold many
Today, January 12, marks 60 years since the caped crusader hit the small screen. On that date in 1966, TV’s original Batman landed with a Bam! Pow! Splat! For me and other eight-year-olds in schoolyards across North America, it was a mind-blowing moment. I can still recall the excitement of watching the very first episode.
Val Kilmer, Joan Plowright, Richard Chamberlain, Terrance Stamp and Diane Keaton also among those who passed away in 2025. There are 102 men and women honoured in the over six-and-a-half minute video. Some known primarily for TV work made it such as George Wendt; others, such as Loni Anderson, did not. Canadian Graham Greene (“Dances
I used to post a “Ten Best” Christmas episodes list but Santa was feeling a little more generous this year. Here, therefore, are 15 holiday faves from the past, sitcom episodes that stand the test of time — just like this TV Guide cover from the week of December 24, 1955. Created back in the
UPDATED. When the world goes mad, you have the clowns to give you hope in humanity. John Candy, rising like the warmest summer sun with the recent release of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Dick Van Dyke, also beloved. He made it to 100 Saturday, and young and old felt their hearts lifted
Back when I was seven, I used to take a pair of plastic safety sissors and cut Peanuts comic strips out of the Toronto Star. Then I’d fetch some Elmers Glue-all and paste them in a scrapbook. My obsession grew. I spent all my nickels and dimes on the Fawcett Crest Peanuts paperbacks. They were
We called him “President for Life” of the Television Critics Association, but Eric Kohanik was always really its greatest ambassador, the glue that held the whole thing together. The TCA’s semi-annual press tours, prized by TV critics and editors across North America for unequalled access to executives and talent, would not have lasted as long
