Remember when all we had to worry about was more snow? The COVID-19 virus has many of us bunkered down in self issolation, hiding behind a fortress of toilet paper. Schools and sports leagues have been suspended and late night talk shows are either dark or performed in empty studios. For those looking towards their
Ben Mankiewicz made it official Thursday — the 2020 TCM Film Festival has been cancelled. The prime time host of the classic film channel told viewers who had purchased tickets to the Los Angeles-based event — scheduled for April 16-19 — that they would would automatically get a 100 per cent refund. Sad for film
The new CTV series Transplant stars Hamza Haq as Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled in hopes of starting a new life in Canada. Bash’s second chance comes at Toronto’s York Memorial Hospital, where the foreign-trained MD must repeat his residency in order to work in the emergency department. The actor who
I really wish I had met Earl Pomerantz, especially after reading Ken Levine’s wonderful tribute to his friend and fellow television writer. Pomerantz, a Canadian whose writing credits read like a Paley Centre tribute to the Golden Age of American sitcoms, died Saturday at 75. The Emmy award winner got his first TV writing gig
Here’s a somewhat amazing story: in 1985, I was a writer at TV Guide Canada when Amazing Stories premiered the first time around. The Steven Spielberg-produced anthology series is being re-booted Friday night — 35 years later — on Apple TV+. The old series, which ran two seasons on NBC, was inspired by the original
Survivor — a.k.a. the Boston Rob Show — just keeps on thriving. Wednesday night, the 20-year-old CBS reality import scored an overnight, estimated 1,701,000 viewers on Global to take show of the night honours. It’s been the second or third most-watched show in English Canada in the last few Live+7 Top 30 Numeris rankings, too,
Dispatches from Elsewhere is one weird mother of a series. The AMC drama, which airs Monday nights, was created by, and stars How I Met Your Mother player Jason Segel. The pilot episode was also written and directed by the 40-year-old actor. Segel explained to TV beat writers last January at the TCA press tour
Monday night marks the 13th season finale of Murdoch Mysteries. Detective Murdoch, played by Yannick Bisson, has sleuth-ed his way through 204 episodes and also gathered evidence on several TV-movies. He’s traveled the world, with the series exported to over 120 territories and translated into several languages. And he’s made a pant-load of money for