“Hulu has picked up the first two seasons of the acclaimed series, and American viewers would be wise to delve into its coarse, hilarious, rural weirdness.” That’s Tim Goodman’s assessment of Letterkenny, which premieres in the United States Friday on the streaming service Hulu. The San Francisco-based TV critic, who writes for The Hollywood Reporter,
Tonight (Tuesday, July 10) CTV airs the second episode of The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition. If last week’s first episode is any indication, this race is going to be awfully hard to call. When I first met the ten new teams competing this season, at the end of April at CTV’s downtown Toronto studios,
I used to be in love with Love. My new Netflix crush, however, is GLOW. Ten new Season Two episodes dropped over a week ago. Happy to report that there is absolutely no ring rust heading into the new half-hours. Go ahead — try not to binge them all in one sitting. This homage to
Tuesday, July 3 marks the premiere of The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition, thew sixth annual installment of Canada’s most-watched summer series. Ten new teams are featured this season. They scrambled across Canada and to different countries when production took place in May. Once again, former Olympian Jon Montgomery is back as host. Of the
FX president John Landgraf was embarrassed to learn a few years ago that the shows on his network had very few female directors. He took steps to correct that, mandating his producers embrace a 50/50 gender policy. Others, including the CBC here in Canada, have followed suit. It’s about time. Canadian productions have long benefited
Mmmmm… great Canadian baking. I followed my nose to the Canadian Film Centre campus in uptown Toronto Tuesday morning as The Great Canadian Baking Show was shooting the final two episodes of its second season. The series returns Sept. 19 on CBC. Did reporters get to sample any of the wares? We did not. I
When the news broke this week that, after 27 years, The Jerry Springer Show was being cancelled, my reaction — like a lot of people I suspect — was, “Is that still on?” Back when I wrote for The Toronto Sun, I remember arriving for an interview with Springer 15 years or so ago when he
LONDON — I’m in The UK for a few days to interview the stars and producers of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a series based on the best selling novels and subsequent feature films. Partially shot in Montreal, the action-packed new series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video at the end of August. John Krazinski, buffed