Canada is off to a fast start at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing with four medals after two days of competition. That includes a gold won Sunday by Quebec native Max Parrot in snowboarding. A gold should also go to veteran sportswriter Allen Able for the stirring video he presented over the weekend
Six months after the end of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, the Beijing Winter Games officially kicked off Friday. Watching the opening ceremonies on both CBC and NBC, the North American broadcasters seemed intent on medaling in diplomacy. An overdressed Andi Petrillo in a Toronto studio began Friday at 6:30 am ET by welcoming Scott
Ralph Mellanby was the guy who put Don Cherry in Coach’s Corner. The Hamilton, Ont. native died last Saturday, Jan. 29, at 87. Raised near Windsor, Ont., the innovative executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada was one of the country’s most influential television broadcasters. Back in the ’60s, he was quick to embrace modern
Hey Bills mafia — in case there was ever any doubt, there are a lot of Buffalo football fans in Canada. That heart-stopping finish between the Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, January 23 helped boost CTV’s NFL coverage to the No. 2 spot on the English Canadian Weekly Top-30. According to data
BREAKING: Paramount+ announced Tuesday that SEAL Team will return for a sixth season. The announcement came as the streaming service released new in advance of their virtual press day with members of the Television Critics Association. A shorter-than-usual fifth season of the David Boreanaz-led military drama ended last month. Episodes were split between CBS and
Swifter, Higher, Stronger. No, that’s not the latest COVID-19 variant. That’s the motto for the Olympic Games, taking place this month in Beijing. With people just allowed (again) back into restaurants and movie theatres, are viewers ready for another international sports competition? It seems like the Summer Games from Japan were less than a year
When I interviewed him in 2014, Hugh Wilson, the creator of WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-82), admitted many of the episodes of the series were a tad underwritten. “In the beginning, he said, “the scripts were pretty tight. By the third year, we almost had blank pages, we were so far behind.” Fortunately, Wilson had cast
There are many reasons why viewers do not watch certain TV shows — not all of them entirely rational. I won’t watch the Sex and the City spin-off And Just Like That, for example, because Kim Catrall is not in it. There is also something deeply off-putting, in this day and age, about these privilege-seeking