My family has had a summer cottage on the Bruce Peninsula since before I was born. Earlier this summer, I walked into Lloyd’s Smoke Shop on the main drag of Wiarton, Ont., “gateway to the Bruce,” wearing an Amazing Race Canada T-shirt. It was a bit of swag handed out a few years back when
Fifty years ago this month, the Canada vs USSR eight game hockey tournament of 1972 galvanized the nation. One of the standouts for Team Canada was Montreal Canadiens defenseman Serge Savard. While TV ratings were an even more inexact science back then, it is estimated that 16 million Canadians, out of a nation of 22
I’ve always found it a great privilege to attend an annual Canadian Film Centre homecoming event during the Toronto International Film Festival. Once a simple Barbecue for film industry insiders, it has grown into an annual fundraiser celebrating a new generation of Canadian storytellers, many of them graduates of the CFC film and television programs.
As they say in The UK, Bloody brilliant. There she was, Lisa LaFlamme, a month after her CTV ouster, in the middle of the biggest story in the world, and working it for a rival broadcaster at home. The death of HRH Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8 was sad news for many but the
The cast and crew of the Handmaid’s Tale celebrated the premiere of the fifth season this week as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. It was recently announced that the series, which returns to Hulu and Crave in Canada this coming Wednesday, September 14, will shoot a sixth and final season. The series stars
“Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she doesn’t have a lot to say.” So wrote Paul McCartney way back in 1969, as heard in a lick of music tucked in the final grooves of The Beatles’ album Abbey Road. The Queen’s 70-year reign spanned from well before Beatlemania through Brexit. With the passing of
Lisa LaFlamme’s abrupt departure continues to impact CTV’s National News ratings. The latest Numeris data report showing the Top-30 most-watched shows across English Canada is for the week of August 22 to 28 — the week after LaFlamme’s firing was announced. It shows that an average minute audience of 791,000 Total, Live+7 viewers watched an
Like a lot of other people, I subscribed to Disney+ with the launch of Peter Jackson’s Beatles’ documentary “Get Back” about a year ago. Since then, the streaming service did what many thought was impossible — catch and pass Netflix, which had a ten year head start, as the streamer with the most subscribers. The