Wednesday, just in case you didn’t already have the willies from the deadly spread of the Coronavirus, CTV launches the new medical series Transplant. This is the second new, private network, made-in-Canada hospital drama this season. Nurses scrubbed in first last fall on Global. CBC already sort of has a hospital show in Coroner. Canadian
Hunters, which premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video, has many things going for it. For one, Al Pacino. The Oscar-winner stars as a Jewish holocaust survivor-turned-Nazi hunter named Meyer Offerman who organizes a band of eclectic helpers determined to track down surviving members of Hitler’s Third Reich. The series is set in New York in
In a world where there’s a burden placed on trying to keep up with everything new on television, Burden of Truth is a homegrown series that deserves a second look. The Wednesday night CBC drama, seen stateside in the summer months on The CW, stars Kristin Kreuk as big city litigator turned crusading small town
Paul Lynde was a very welcome presence on network television throughout the ’60s and ’70s. He appeared in less than a dozen episodes of the hit ABC sitcom Bewitched, for example, but he was so effective many believe he was in the whole series. For 13 seasons, Lynde was the main attraction on The Hollywood
The late great Canadian comedian Dave Broadfoot titled his 2002 autobiography, “Old Enough to Say What I Want.” That philosophy is shared — and exploded to bits — in Hey Lady!, an edgy and hilarious new digital series premiering Friday on CBC Gem. Lady, played by Jayne Eastwood, is a 75-year-old senior who tells us
Ever since she was a child, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki has been fascinated by what goes on under the tides. The daughter of famed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, she loved exploring tidal pools near the family cabin on Quadra Island in British Columbia. It’s a world where, she says, “I learned to snorkel before I could swim.”
I watched the first three episodes of Star Trek: Picard for this review and I have to report: it was a chore. Remember that first “Star Trek” movie? Way, way back with Kirk and Spock circling the Enterprise for, like, half an hour of forced awe? The early arc of this series, I’m sad to
Way back last April I was invited to the set of Nurses, a Canadian-made hospital series set in Toronto. Nine months later, it premieres this Monday night at 8 p.m. on Global. I’m not here to pan it or even bed pan it. There are some folks behind it who have made several very successful