One of the emotional highlights of the recent documentary “John Candy: I Like Me” is a scene where Catherine O’Hara is delivering the eulogy at Candy’s funeral. O’Hara stood at the podium at St. Basil’s church at St. Michael’s College on the University of Toronto campus and delivered a heartfelt remembrance of her friend. Candy
Today, January 12, marks 60 years since the caped crusader hit the small screen. On that date in 1966, TV’s original Batman landed with a Bam! Pow! Splat! For me and other eight-year-olds in schoolyards across North America, it was a mind-blowing moment. I can still recall the excitement of watching the very first episode.
Val Kilmer, Joan Plowright, Richard Chamberlain, Terrance Stamp and Diane Keaton also among those who passed away in 2025. There are 102 men and women honoured in the over six-and-a-half minute video. Some known primarily for TV work made it such as George Wendt; others, such as Loni Anderson, did not. Canadian Graham Greene (“Dances
I used to post a “Ten Best” Christmas episodes list but Santa was feeling a little more generous this year. Here, therefore, are 15 holiday faves from the past, sitcom episodes that stand the test of time — just like this TV Guide cover from the week of December 24, 1955. Created back in the
UPDATED. When the world goes mad, you have the clowns to give you hope in humanity. John Candy, rising like the warmest summer sun with the recent release of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Dick Van Dyke, also beloved. He made it to 100 Saturday, and young and old felt their hearts lifted
Back when I was seven, I used to take a pair of plastic safety sissors and cut Peanuts comic strips out of the Toronto Star. Then I’d fetch some Elmers Glue-all and paste them in a scrapbook. My obsession grew. I spent all my nickels and dimes on the Fawcett Crest Peanuts paperbacks. They were
We called him “President for Life” of the Television Critics Association, but Eric Kohanik was always really its greatest ambassador, the glue that held the whole thing together. The TCA’s semi-annual press tours, prized by TV critics and editors across North America for unequalled access to executives and talent, would not have lasted as long
Jimmy Kimmel has hosted some incredibly emotional hours of his late night series in 23 seasons, but none so devestatingly personal as the one he delivered last night. Kimmel was mourning the loss of his lifelong friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. The saxophonist and leader of Cleto and the Cletones passed