Fifty years ago, one man on one TV show created eight vividly memorable TV characters in every episode: The Librarian; Grizelda, the Ghastly Gourmet; Bwana Clyde Batty, The Oracle, The Count, The Marharishi, the record-spinning Wolfman and Dr. Pet Vet. Then he’d pull on a gorilla suit and fall on his face. The show was
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know. If you have Rogers Ignite as your TV provider, you can simply pick up the remote, press the microphone button and say, “Ignite and chill,” and up will pop a dozen romantic movies to rent or buy for Valentine’s Day. I only found this out because the folks
Even Kristin Kreuk finds it hard to believe that she has spent half her life working from province to province on various TV sets. The 38-year-old Vancouver native was just 19 when she began her career on teen dramas such as Edgemont and, as Clark Kent’s love interest Lana Lane, on Smallville. Both were Vancouver
If you’re looking for a new TV series that would go well with a nice glass of Chianti, well… keep looking. For those of you drinking something stronger, there’s Clarice. Described as a psychological horror crime drama, the shot-in-Toronto series premieres Thursday night on CBS and Global. It’s based on the book and the Oscar-winning,
Tough as Nails could describe how we’ve all had to become over the past 11 or 12 months. It’s also a reality series, celebrating ordinary working heroes, created and hosted by The Amazing Race‘s Phil Keoghan. Season 2 premieres Wednesday Feb. 10 on CBS and Global. Keoghan and his wife Louise co-executive produce the series.
The first Super Bowl of the COVID era shows that the “Big Game” is still TV’s top draw — even if audience levels slid slightly in both the U.S. and Canada. Host broadcaster CBS claims Super Bowl LV had a Total Audience Delivery of 96.4 million viewers across all their platforms, including the main broadcast
There was a time when Canadians felt all left out because we couldn’t watch the US Super Bowl ads. A former Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chief even ordered the Canadian NFL rights holder, Bell Media, to provide a window to the originating US feed for the game in Canada just so ads for beer
When the cops and courts can’t help, who do you turn to? That’s the thinking behind bringing back The Equalizer, a vigilante justice hour starring Queen Latifah. It premieres Sunday after the Super Bowl on CBS and Global. (Canada’s Super Bowl network, CTV, switches instead to their new home reno series Homes Family Values featuring