In space, no one can hear you scream that your AppleTV+ subscription has run out. Better re-up or you’ll miss one of the most suspenseful shows of the year so far: Constellation. Lavish in budget, the eight-part drama premieres February 21 on AppleTV+. Noomi Rapace stars as Jo, one of a small team of astronauts
OK, so I have Netflix, Crave, Disney (for a month, anyway) , Amazon Prime and CBC Gem. Why can’t I find a series I want to watch? I tried True Detective on Crave, but it seemed more like sci-fi than detective. I got a few episodes into Fool Me Once on Netflix, but gave up
Cop or detective shows nowadays have to have some sort of an extra hook. The main character has some sort of Spidey-sense, or can tell if somebody is lying, or they’re an old rookie — something. Anything! In the new CTV police procedural Sight Unseen — premiering Sunday after the NFL playoff game and then
Winter finally arrived in much of Canada Tuesday night. The good news is so has CBC’s trio of Tuesday night comedies. I interviewed the casts of all three shows last month at the Winter Media launch at CBC’s downtown Toronto broadcast centre. Later this month over at brioux.tv: the podcast, you can listen as the
If you’ve been waiting until the Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selina Gomez comedy Whodunnit Only Murders in The Building came to an old-fashioned broadcast network, well, congratulations. Starting tonight, the Hulu/Disney+ streaming series premieres from the beginning on ABC and CTV. This is a shrewd bit of re-purposing by networks still reeling from a lack
I always resented the series M*A*S*H. This had nothing to do with the merits of the multiple Emmy Award-winning series, or the fact that, when my career began at TV Guide Canada shortly before the series ended, it was a pain having to shift keys and type an asterisk every time in between capitalizing the
Geddy Lee was in the house Wednesday night at the TIFF Lightbox theatre in Toronto for a screening of his new docuseries Are Bass Players Human Too? The answer, based on the first two of four episodes currently streaming on Paramount+, is hell yes. Strange fellas with cool if kooky interests and hobbies but still
I don’t want to say this new series Bria Mack Gets a Life is sassy. I might have at one time but I know better now. There’s a scene in episode two of this sassy stellar new Crave original where a co-worker touches new hire Bria Mack’s hair. This triggers a smack down fantasy scene