One of the best new offerings of the 2014 Fall TV season begins Sunday night: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The seven-part, 14-hour miniseries airs every night this week through to the 20th on PBS. It chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three well-to-do Americans who had a tremendous impact on the lives of
There’s a scene in The Knick where a guy takes a needle full of junk up his junk. Ouch! The turn-of-the-20th century hospital drama premieres Friday night on Cinemax as well as The Movie Network/Movie Central. Clive Owen plays Dr. Thackery, a House-like MD operating at a once proud New York City hospital called The
I was working as a busboy at a restaurant in Ontario Place at the foot of Toronto the summer Richard Nixon resigned from the White House. I was a high school student and it was a pretty good summer job; $2:10 an hour and all the chips you could eat. The restaurant faced East so I
The folks behind Sensitive Skin are smart. Get too wordy in a review and you wind up sounding like Al, Skin‘s wannabe downtown Toronto hipster who clings to columnist status though he’s barely a blogger. Al is played by Don McKellar, also the director of this series which premiered July 20 on HBO Canada. I was
Just as Louie shuts down for another season, Jerry Seinfeld pulls up for more Comedians in Cars Going for Coffee. Whew! The Web series streams on Crackle with the first episode of Season Four, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, up now. Future episodes, which will roll out weekly, feature Aziz Ansari (Parks & Recreation), Robert Klein,
All other shows, thanks for coming out. There’s nothing else on TV like Louie. The FX series wrapped up for a fourth season Monday night with two more brilliant episodes, concluding a trilogy featuring co-writer and producer Pamela Adlon. The remarkable thing about Louie this season was the daring departure from how stories were told
It’s probably impossible for me to weigh in on Sunday’s MuchMusic Video Awards without sounding like an old coot but here goes. It disheartened me right off the bat that this show was going to be “hosted” by two Kardashians. Really Canada? Why did we have to stoop so low across the border for this one?
My son Dan’s favourite new TV show is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. How, I wondered. The series airs Sundays at 11 p.m. on HBO Canada, a premium pay service I know his Ryerson U gang down at the Carleton Street bunker do not subscribe to. Still, I shouldn’t be so surprised. These kids today,