Were you one of the many who, after working from home during the worst of the COVID pandemic, were less than thrilled about going back to the office? A new documentary series suggests it might not be going back to work that is the problem. It may be going back to the same old stuffy
During the decade of the 1970s one of the busiest and most-watched actors on television was John Amos. Not a bad trick considering the New Jersey native did not start out in television as an actor. He was writing for a local news show when singer-actress Leslie Uggams started working on her variety show. She
Nineteen sixty-four was a good year to be a TV tot. I was seven-years-old that October and remember all these cool, black-and-white witches, vampires and severed hands invading our living room via network premieres of such sitcoms as The Munsters, The Addams Family and Bewitched. Besides the shows themselves, there was the monster merch. At
The first scene of the new Fox and Global series Murder in a Small Town is set at that most sacred of Canadian television landmarks: the diner from The Beachcombers, Mollys Reach. Seated inside, shooting a first date scene, are two actors representing several generations of Canadian acting royalty: Kristin Kreuk, the Vancouver lass who went from Edgemont to Smallville to Beauty and
We’d seen the clips and read the hype. Maya Rudolph and Jim Gaffigan would play Vice President Kamala Harris and V.P. hopeful Tim Walz when Saturday Night Live returned for its 50th season. Anticipation was high that the series, five weeks before an election, would hit it out of the park. It did not. A
“If scandal is to your taste, Miss MacKay,” I shall give you a feast!” Over the years I have heard Maggie Smith’s memorable line from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” proclaimed regularly in our house. This quote is a particular favourite of Sandra’s, especially as Sunday brunch is served. Smith, of course, had a
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The new series Murder in a Small Town opens with the most Canadian scene ever. Cassandra, played by Vancouver-born Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth), meets Karl, played by another Vancouver native, Rossif Sutherland — he of the famous half-brother Kiefer and the late, great actor Donald and wife Francine Racette. Cassandra and Karl are