Seed stars Adam Korson and Carrie-Lynn Neales: Take two I’ve been following the TV numbers racket for years in Canada but am left scratching my head over the past few days. The one that really seems, if you’ll pardon the pun, inconceivable: the soft opening of Seed Monday night on City. According to the overnight
Is Adam Korson Canada’s next great sitcom star?City sure hope so. They’re betting the relative unknown actor can carry Seed to term.The new Halifax-based comedy premieres Monday night at 8:30 p.m. ET on City. The Rogers-owned network is growing in reach, adding key markets in Quebec to its coverage, and also in expectations. Besides Seed,
Marthe Bernard and Mark O’Brien: not talking If you missed last month’s fourth season premiere of Republic of Doyle, you’re about to miss it again. It’s on opposite tonight’s Super Bowl (CBC, 9 p.m.). Hey, you never know, the game could be out of reach by then. (And, well, kudos to CBC for not wasting
Main Motive-ators Louis Ferreira, Kristin Lehman and Brendan Penny CTV’s new “Whydunit” drime drama Motive starts tonight around 10 p.m. ET, immediately following the Super Bowl.I though the pilot was slick if a little too by-the-numbers. It is a good thing the killer was given away in the first few minutes because the case was
Canadians have been bitching about not seeing those Super Bowl ads for 40 years, ever since simultaneous substitution was introduced in 1972. The annual outcry is like our version of Groundhog Day.Thing is, the big-budget commercials have been available to Canadians for years, in some cases, prior to the big game, on the Internet.It’s never
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, but the Airplane! actor-slash-basketball Hall of Famer sure knows Girls.He alcindor-ated the HBO series in an insightful article for The Huffington Post (did they pay him?) headlined, “Girls Just Want to have (White) Fun.”Abdul-Jabbar posts up on an oft-expressed criticism of Lena Dunham’s show–that the
The 30 Rock finale: always go out with a Hitler joke On this week’s podcast, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if I’ll miss 30 Rock, which goes out with an hour-long finale Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and City.The honest answer is no I won’t. Never a consistent viewer, I found the series
The Americans premiere tonight at 10 p.m. ET on FX and FX Canada. I find the series takes a while to find its stride but that’s typical of pilot episodes, especially one where so much has to be explained at the start. There’s too much exposition, with scenes flashing back and forth. It gets better