Tonight, with a special episode, CBC celebrated the 30th season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. They really should have made it an hour-long special at least. Imagine trying to crunch over 600 episodes down to one 22-minute episode. That was the task handed to Matt Charlton, who has been associated behind the scenes with
Whether or not you’ve been watching Summit 72 — the documentary series about Team Canada’s incredible summit series victory over the Soviet Union — don’t miss tonight’s final episode. The last hour takes you back fifty years to the eighth and final game — the one where Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds remaining —
Monday night, the cast and crew of This Hour Has 22 Minutes took over the Glenn Gould Theatre at the CBC Broadcast Centre. The occasion was the first-ever Toronto taping of the sketch series, which normally is based each week in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Toronto episode airs tonight at 8/7c on CBC and CBC
Wednesday night at 8/9c, CBC airs Part Two of the four-part series Summit 72. For those of us who, as hockey-mad teenagers, watched this clash between the best of the Soviets vs Canadian all-stars, this is must see TV. For the majority of Canadians born after the eight game event, it may be a tougher
The start of the traditional broadcast network TV season begins in earnest this week, although earnest may be overstating things. To paraphrase Tina Fey a dozen years ago, network television today is about as cutting edge as vaudeville in the sixties. Nevertheless, one of the new/old offerings, mainly what you get from broadcast nowadays, is
My family has had a summer cottage on the Bruce Peninsula since before I was born. Earlier this summer, I walked into Lloyd’s Smoke Shop on the main drag of Wiarton, Ont., “gateway to the Bruce,” wearing an Amazing Race Canada T-shirt. It was a bit of swag handed out a few years back when
My current favourite TV show ends it’s second season tonight: Only Murders in the Building (Hulu and Disney+ in Canada). I’m thrilled a third season has already been ordered and hope it hurries back as fast as the second season did. Here at the Brampton bunker, we watch every episode twice. Not because we missed
Batter up! Tonight marks the third time the Toronto Blue Jays will be featured as part of Apple’s Friday Night Baseball doubleheader series. If you’re wondering, therefore, why they’re not on Sportsnet for an important series against the New York Yankees, it is because the game can only be watched tonight, starting at 7 p.m.