If you’ve seen Rita Moreno as Lydia Riera on One Day at a Time, you know the lady knows how to make an entrance. Lydia, a retired singer-dancer, likes to dramatically part the curtain that separates the kitchen from the living room in her extended family’s crowded Cuban-American house. Then she bursts through like she’s
Paris Hilton turns 40 in February. This will shake some of us who remember her as the “celebutante” who never heard of Wal-Mart. She said things such as, “That’s hot!” a lot at the start of the century on a momentary object of fascination known as The Simple Life. She has stuck around and made
The Canadian drama Transplant comes to America Tuesday night with one of the strongest endorsements ever from a major US television critic: “The series will make its debut as the best medical show on American television, which is something given the competition,” writes John Anderson in The Wall Street Journal. “And while it’s a bit
There have been Canadian versions of The Amazing Race, Big Brother, American Idol and WipeOut. Even Deal or No Deal and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire got (brief) Canadian spins. The one big reality competition show that has never been tried on Canadian soil is Survivor. Nahanni River of Forgiveness (premiering Sunday, August 9
Back wen my daughter Katie was a teen she was crazy about a little Beatle-y film called “Across the Universe.” One of the stars was a Brit by the name of Jim Sturgess, a young Paul McCartney look-a-like who played a character named “Jude.” Katie painted pictures of the actor and hung one on the
The new CTV series Transplant stars Hamza Haq as Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled in hopes of starting a new life in Canada. Bash’s second chance comes at Toronto’s York Memorial Hospital, where the foreign-trained MD must repeat his residency in order to work in the emergency department. The actor who
Dr. David Suzuki has been hosting The Nature of Things for 40 seasons. In TV terms, that’s forever. To put it in perspective, it’s ten years longer than The Simpsons! He’d like to hand the series off to younger hands, but, as he told me the other day on the phone from his home in
The best session last month at the semi-annual TCA press tour was for AMC’s Better Call Saul. After more than a year between seasons, everybody on stage was loose and fun and feeling pretty good about these ten new episodes ahead. The drama returns Sunday night for a fifth and second last season and, from