PASADENA, Calif. — Wednesday at TCA ended with a session on the next big streaming service: HBO Max. The venture is backed by the full power of Warner Bros. Studios and all its subsidiaries. It comes with everything from “Casablanca” to Cartoon Swim. The service launches in May – but not in Canada. Too many
Al Pacino was asked at Tuesday’s Amazon Prime TCA panel about adjusting to the rigors of TV series work. “It’s just a different environment for one thing,” said Pacino, before TV critics to help promote the upcoming Amazon drama Hunters. “Every week or every two to three weeks, you get a new director. Shall I say
Looking for diversity in a TCA executive panel? Look no further than the Amazon Prime trio of Studios Head Jennifer Salke, COO Albert Cheng and co-Head Vernon Sanders. The three make a strikingly diverse impression on stage at TCA20. They have in the past, too, when they fielded questions in a similar capacity as NBC
PASADENA, Calif. — Canada Day at TCA continued Monday afternoon with the Pop TV panel for Schitt’s Creek. This month, the series launched its sixth and final season in both Canada (on CBC) and the United States. The four main leads — Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy — took a final
PASADENA, Calif. – Monday was a good day to be a Canadian attending the winter sessions of the 2020 Television Critics Association press tour. The afternoon began with opening remarks from Pop TV president Brad Schwartz (right). One of the hottest network chiefs in America, Schwartz is a former CTV/Bell exec who steered Pop from
Paging Doctor television! Is there a surge in Canadian-made medical shows? I argue yes in a feature I wrote appearing in today’s Toronto Star. Fact is, after years of ratings dominance by No. 1 hit The Big Bang Theory, The Good Doctor, as seen on CTV, is now the No. 1 series in Canada. Other
Think you know Enrico Colantoni already from Just Shoot Me, “Galaxy Quest,” Veronica Mars, Flashpoint, Bad Blood and “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”? Think again Apache Burger breath! This fellow Etobian is my special guest on the latest BriouxTV: The Podcast, up now at Soundcloud, iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google, Pocket and where ever great
CBC’s week-long mid-season roll out of new and returning shows seemed to run into a wall of clutter Wednesday, at least in overnight estimates. Third year series Burden of Truth returned at 8 p.m. to 265,000 overnight, estimated viewers. At 9 p.m. on CBC, the premiere of the cross border spy drama Fortunate Son was