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
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 was living in Los Angeles in 1986 when Pee-wee’s Playhouse premiered on Saturday mornings on CBS. What a welcome sea change in children’s television. It was as if Prince and Cindy Lauper made a TV series with Captain Kangaroo. Best of all, every week, the secret word was “FUN.” The series was this incredible
Colourizing filmed images from 60, 70, 80 and even 100 years ago or more has been bringing the past closer in recent years. Everything from The Beatles in early concert footage to horse and buggy scenes in old New York or even astonishing updates of classic films such as “Metropolis” just looks more relatable and
This happened a couple of weeks ago now but it was so disappointing I had to let the fumes dissipate first. I’m talking about that final episode of The Conners (which aired April 23 on ABC and CTV. Stream it on their digital platforms). Here was the only reboot I can think of to last