Wrote a piece for The Canadian Press today suggesting five new shows worth checking out, all premiering this month. You can read the full article here.The list includes Being Erica, which starts Monday on CBC and stars Erin Karpluck as a 32-year-old woman whose life is falling apart. Then she meets a mysterious stranger who
The first podcast of 2009 over on CHML’s Scott Thompson Show takes a look at the best and worst on TV of 2008. You can listen in here.This was the year that the smug, superior look was smacked clean off the faces of network programming executives. What does it all mean in 2009? I’m off
Turner Classic Movie’s beautiful little year ender brings a tough year to a close with style and grace. If there was a better channel in 2008, I’d like to know about it. The recent salute to Disney’s live action films, The Age of Believing, was such a terrific Christmas present, worth it if just for
Two thousand and eight was a tough year for TV critics. Many were re-assigned or lost their jobs altogether, caught in the squeeze of higher newsprint costs, lower advertising revenues and the apparent generational shift away from daily newspapers. Roger Ebert suggested in an article a month ago that film critics–also dropping like, well, canaries–were
The end of the year brings a chance to do a little house cleaning. Here are a few stories I’ve written recently that I haven’t had a chance to post about at TV Feeds My Family.One big TV event I’ve written about several times, including Saturday’s Starweek cover story, was tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve
Get the ploughs out for the drive home, Hamilton: I’m booked today with my pals Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly on ‘CH’s Live @ 5:30. The topic is all those new mid-season shows comin’ atcha in January, including Fox favorites 24 (returning Jan. 11) and American Idol (Jan. 13) and new Fox/Global dramas Lie To