Looking for a little paranormal activity? Haven returns for a second season Monday night at 10 p.m. on Showcase. It premiered last Friday on Syfy.I had the opportunity to re-visit the set out in Chester, N.S., in May. The series is produced out of a local hockey rink and everything inside is friendly and low key.The big get for season two
After a summer full of get-me-off-this-game-show-style reality crap, it’s nice to see good drama make a come back. Besides the fourth season return of Breaking Bad (tonight at 10 p.m. on AMC), a new short-order detective series from PBS begins tonight called Zen (part of Masterpiece Mystery!, 9 p.m., check PBS affiliates in your area). Rufus Sewell, so good
Breaking Bad returns tonight for a fourth season at 10 p.m. on AMC. Bryan Cranston has won the Best Actor in a drama Emmy three years in a row as chemistry teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, but he is not in the running this year. That’s because AMC bumped the show out of its usual late-winter start to July,
The invention of the telephone is seen as a golden opportunity to steal information and ruin lives for yellow journalism kingpin Rupert Murdoch in this week’s exciting episode of Rupert Murdoch Mysteries (Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on City). The detective (Yannick Bisson) catches Murdoch (Don Cherry) tapping a phone line (with a hammer), but when he drags his
From Wednesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: There’s talk that Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina, will be on the next season of “Dancing With the Stars.” Which explains the show’s new title, “Dancing With the Non-star Parents of Former Stars.”
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to know why Big Brother (below), in its 13th season, was the No. 1 show on TV in Canada last week. Scott attributes this to what he calls “the train wreck theory.” I agree and bow here to Reality Obsessed expert Murtz Jaffer, who has explained the continuing success of these
The top three scripted TV shows in all of Canada last week were all shot in Toronto: Combat Hospital (above, with 1,507,000 viewers), Rookie Blue (1,380,000) and Flashpoint (1,369,000). Who says Canadians won’t watch Canadian programs? ‘Course, they were all beat by the return of the summer snoop opera Big Brother on Global (1,734,000).The Sunday return
So you’re asking yourself–what is the late Rodney Dangerfield doing in a shot with Yannick Bisson from Murdoch Mysteries? Well, hold onto your funding grants–that’s none other than our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, guest starring as Desk Sargent Armstrong in the July 20 episode “Confederate Treasure” (City, 8/9c).It kinda looks to me like Harper and