Treat Williams brought a lot of likeability to his role as Dr. Andy Brown on The CW series Everwood. He had already won accolades for his early roles in the film production of “Hair” (1979) and in the Sidney Lumet crime drama “Prince of the City” (1981) before resurfacing on TV in his forties as
One of my favourite Netflix comedies — Never Have I Ever — returned last week and went straight to No. 1 on the streaming services most-watched shows list in Canada. The fourth and final season of the Mindy Kalling-produced high school sitcom, which stars Mississauga, Ont. actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, had over 15 million views in
Hey, if Marie Dresler has waited this long, what’s another nine months? Nominations were announced Tuesday for the 2024 Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. Among the nominees is Marie Dressler, one of the biggest names from the early days of sound features. Dressler was the No. 1 box office attraction in the world back when
With summer just over a week away, it’s time to jump back into The Lake. The Prime Video series has just returned for a second season. It stars Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black) as a gay dad with a now 17-year-old daughter named Billie (Madison Shamoun). That’s what happens when you get your best friend pregnant
There was plenty to celebrate Thursday as Bell Media closed out a week of Toronto-based Upfronts with their annual ad orgy at the Meridian. If you tally up the English and French-language output, Bell will have 96 titles and 1037 hours of original content in 2023/24. CTV remains, after 22 straight years, the most-watched broadcast
As a child of television growing up in the west end of Toronto in the early 1960s, I was always confused about the opening of a local children’s show called Commander Tom. A narrator boomed off the top that the commander’s top secret headquarters was, “somewhere on the Niagara peninsula.” “Somewhere”? It looked like a 50-storey
At this time of year, Canadian broadcasters have traditionally ramped up the ballyhoo with breathless releases about all the fabulous new shows they’re importing for the coming season. The phrases most often used to achieve this are “most talked-about acquisition,” and, wait for it, “buzzworthy.” On Wednesday in Toronto at Corus Entertainment’s first post-COVID in-person
Despite mixed (to be generous) reviews, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action series FUBAR remained in the No. 1 slot in its second week. The series drew 88.03 million hours viewed and appeared in the Netflix Top 10 in 91 countries. A surprise No. 2 in Canada was the Colombian drama Fake Profile. The steamy, Spanish language series