Director Ethan Hawke’s remarkable “The Last Movie Stars,” finally available in Canada thanks to Hollywood Suite, is The Actors Studio of documentaries. The six-part docuseries is, in many ways, a salute to the famous school of acting which operated in New York in the late ’40s and ’50s as taught by Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan
After a year off for bad behaviour, the Hollywood Foreign Press’ Golden Globe Awards returned on a Tuesday night. Did anybody watch? Quite a few in Canada. In overnight ratings, the suspiciously run statue-fest drew an estimated average audience of 875,000 over the three hour broadcast. Not bad considering it had some stiff competition on
Taking the No. 1 spot on the Canadian Netflix Top-10 for the week of January 2-8 is the second season premiere of Ginny & Georgia. Starring Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry, the mother-daughter duo was No. 1 overall worldwide with 180.47 million hours viewed. This pushed it past the puzzling heist drama Kaleidoscope, which recorded
Last Thursday’s gold medal victory by Canada over Czechia in the World Junior Hockey Championships drew an overnight, estimated 4,189,000 viewers on TSN. That capped a steady growth in viewership for TSN over the course of the Halifax-based tournament. The day before, Canada’s semi-final victory over the USA Juniors was watched by an overnight, estimated
Are you Beatled out already? Was nearly eight hours of Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary simply All Too Much? Some of us can never get enough Fab Four but even if you’re not a big Beatles fan, I recommend “If These Walls Could Sing,” streaming now on Disney+. The documentary was directed by Mary McCartney,
A close game ending in a spectacular winning goal Monday night at the World Junior Hockey Championships drew an estimated, overnight, 2,485,000 viewers. Connor Bedard’s overtime deke lifted Canada over a determined Slovakia club. Canada went on to defeat the USA Wednesday (where ratings were likely even higher) and face Czechia — the team that
Despite an opening round loss to Chechia and some negative Hockey Canada headlines, the World Junior Hockey Championships is still a big draw on TSN. A look at the overnight ratings from December 31 shows that an average minute audience of 1,752,000 (ages 2+) watched the WJC Preliminary game between Canada and Sweden on New
The second season of Emily in Paris remains the most-watched Netflix series in Canada for the second consecutive week. Wednesday, on the Top-10 chart for six weeks, remains strong in Canada at No. 2 on the TV list. It was No. 1 in the U.S. The comedy mystery dominated worldwide with 103.96M hours viewed and