I sinned when I was a high school student in Toronto. I did not see Godspell, the musical. For my penance I’ve regretted it ever since. Who misses out on seeing Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood and later Dave Thomas getting baptised into showbiz? Not to mention hear
I grew up with the classic Match Game daytime series, the one Gene Rayburn hosted with that telescoping mic. It featured Bret Summers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson, all served on a bed of orange shag carpeting. A decade ago a revival featured Alec Baldwin as host, complete with that goofy antenna mic. The
Mark Maron’s WTF podcast has been essential listening for me ever since the COVID pandemic. He’s been at it since way before that, sixteen years in fact. His peers consider him the O.G. of podcasting. His decision to shut things down come October, podcast wise, has nothing to do with the title of his new
When I interviewed this century’s most successful creator of sitcoms — Chuck Lorre — earlier this summer for a podcast, I asked if he had any new shows coming up. He immediately singled out Leanne, which premiered Thursday on Netflix. All 16 first-season episode are available now. Lorre, who has worked with some pretty fair
Before there was Saturday Night Live, MuchMusic or MTV, the really big shew with hottest music acts was The Ed Sullivan Show. It began in 1948 as The Toast of the Town, with bold face newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan introducing, between the plate spinners, acrobats, comedians and a little puppet mouse named Toppo Gigio, everyone
There are plenty of twists and turns in the compelling new HBOMax documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes (seen in Canada on Crave). We learn that things very nearly took a tragic turn early for the multi-Grammy award winning singer-songwriter entertainer. He tried to take his own life, for example, before breaking through in
[CAUTION: this review contains spoilers.] If all you know about Jayne Mansfield is that photo where Sophia Loren sneaks a side-eye glance at her rival’s ample cleavage, you need to check out My Mom Jayne. The HBO documentary, which opened to glowing reviews in Cannes in May, offers a sympathetic and compelling portrait of the
Seven hundred episodes of anything is a lot of television. Real Time with Bill Maher reaches that milestone Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Crave. Maher’s first guest this week is a favourite from the past, Dave Barry. The humour columnist and author is promoting a book titled, “The Memoirs of a Professional