The third season premiere of the true crime series The Detectives premieres tonight and Episode One will keep you guessing whodunit right up till the end. Allan Hawco (Jack Ryan) stars as RCMP detective Gerry Belliveau, who, 23 years ago in Sackville, N.S., was lead investigator on a crime that saw Mary Lou Barns and
I can’t think of a single Buck Henry appearance or writing credit on TV or at the movies that didn’t make whatever it was better. That includes Captain Nice, an otherwise wretched series from 1967. The silly superhero spoof, created by Henry and starring a young William Daniels, made me laugh. What do you want,
Despite plenty of advance hype about this being Schitt’s Creek‘s sixth and final season, the CBC comedy returned to 450,000 overnight, estimated viewers Tuesday night. Another CBC sitcom getting plenty of acclaim and attention from south of the border of late, Kim’s Convenience, returned for a fourth season to 517,000. Both shows traditionally do very
What is your all-time favourite TV theme song? Did you have a TV show you never missed when you were a child? These questions were put to the stars of Burden of Truth, the Winnipeg-based legal drama just moving in to a third season Wednesday nights on CBC. I had the good fortune to be
Global’s new medical drama Nurses premiered to an estimated 923,000 overnight viewers Monday night as mid-season launched into a busy week in broadcast television. The Mississauga-based series held its own opposite the two-hour launch of the ABC import America’s Got Talent: The Champions on CTV. Accommodating these and other mid-season replacements meant shifting some shows
A week into 2020, with schedules starting to heat up again, it’s time to get back to the numbers. Scheduling moves over the holidays generally fall into the stunt or one-off category. This is especially true of New Year’s Eve. This December 31, CBC programmers decided to end the year with five episodes of Family
Like the waters in and around lakes and rivers in Ontario, the Creek keeps rising. The past year especially, the accolades for the CBC comedy Schitt’s Creek keep pouring in. Especially from the United States, where the series broke through with four Emmy Award nominations in 2019, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Lead Actor nods
Way back last April I was invited to the set of Nurses, a Canadian-made hospital series set in Toronto. Nine months later, it premieres this Monday night at 8 p.m. on Global. I’m not here to pan it or even bed pan it. There are some folks behind it who have made several very successful