Another month full of high-energy TV hijinx is comin’ ‘atcha. We can’t keep up with all this Peak TV, so check back weekly for updates. THURS/APRIL 1 Staged (Hollywood Suite). BBC One describes this eight episode series as “two bickering actors making a drama out of a crisis. Can their fragile egos survive working from
Two of the oldest prime time shows on televison — Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS — stood atop the Numeris list of the Top 30 TV shows watched in Canada the week of March 15 to 21. Grey‘s began as a mid-season replacement on ABC in 2005. NCIS premiered in 2003 on CBS and was spun
Tuesday in Toronto, two days before April 1st, eleventy billion-million, seven-hundred and forty nine thousand million Canadian Screen Award nominations were announced by the Academy of Way Too Many Awards of Canada. This breaks the old record of eleventy billion-million and seventeen set in 2020. Health Canada was impressed. “If only we could get that
I first met Jay Baruchel 20 years ago in Los Angeles on a Television Critics Association Fox network reception in downtown Los Angeles. At 18, he was starring in Judd Apatow’s college comedy Undeclared alongside another young Canadian, Seth Rogan. The two were pretty excited to have landed on a promising show; what they could not have
There’s a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on right now in terms of rock’n’ roll documentaries. To watch HBO’s premiere of Tina Saturday — profiling the great Tina Turner, of course — I had to switch away from an older doc on Elvis. When Tina ended, the show that followed was the recent (and excellent)
The money is no longer in the banana stand. Jessica Walter, who capped off a long and distinguished stage, screen and television career with roles on cutting edge 21st century comedies Arrested Development and the animated FX series Archer passed away Wednesday at home in her native New York. She was 80. She earned her
When I was speaking with Enrico Colantoni for a podcast episode a little over a year ago I momentarily blanked on the name of one of his co-stars from the late ’90s sitcom Just Shoot Me. “Are you really not remembering George Segal?” said an incredulous Colantoni. This was pre-COVID, and we were sitting together
Here’s how far award show coverage has slid in terms of interest in Canada in 2021: The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards did not make the Top-10. The CBS special, seen in Canada on Citytv, finished in 15th spot in the March 8 – 14 weekly Numeris tally, drawing a Live+7 total audience of 1,111,000 viewers