[Editor’s note: contributing writer Maurice Tougas is a big fan of Bob’s Burgers and especially this one particular Christmas episode — so much so he sent me a similar rave review in 2024. Mr and Mrs brioux.tv watched the episode last Christmas and boy is he ever right. This is an animated gem that belongs
Network comedy today is no laughing matter. The days when you could watch two solid hours of great comedy on one night are long gone; heck, it’s difficult to find two solid hours of comedy in a week. But all is not entirely lost. I’ve checked out three new shows – one pretty good, another
The leaves have changed colour, the mornings are cool and getting cooler. That can only mean one thing – the new TV season is here! Oh, and autumn. Network TV, or what’s left of it, has kicked off its new season, not that anyone has noticed. Network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox) seems to
To repair or not to repair, that is the TV question Last Wednesday, my wife woke me with four words nobody wants to hear. “The television doesn’t work.” I’ve heard this before. My 65” Samsung, with its various boxes attached, can be a little finicky, particularly for a senior technophobe like my wife. But this
Editor’s note: summer is a good time to finally crack open those books you’ve been meaning to read all year. Contributor Maurice Tougas gets things started with his review of Desi Arnaz, The Man Who Invented Television (Simon and Schuster), Lucille Ball – just Lucy to her millions of fans – has rightfully been elevated
One thing you can say about Apple TV; it’s never been afraid to spend big. It doesn’t always work, of course. (Check out – or better yet, don’t – Apple’s $180 million film flop, Fountain of Youth.) But sometimes the gamble pays off big; Severance is rumoured to cost $20 million per episode, and it’s
I have a rough rule of thumb when choosing a book to read: anything over 400 pages is just, as the kids say, TMI. More than that tells me that the author simply couldn’t decide what to take out, so they left everything in, say, the subject’s great-great grandfather came to America in 1852 and
Once upon a time, back in the long-ago era of the 1980s, there were two ‘pay TV’ stations that started life on the high road. One was named Arts & Entertainment, or A&E. It specialized in theatre, plays, foreign films … artsy stuff. The other was called The Learning Channel, or TLC. Its goal was