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One thing I like about New Girl is the show isn’t afraid to just boldly go there. Case in point was last week’s episode, where Jess (Zooey DesChanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) finally “do it.”Often, on a romantic sitcom, that equals Jump The Shark time. Shouldn’t they have held out until Season Five? Where does

There was a lot to discuss when CHML’s Scott Thompson called last week. We yakked a bit about the Canadian network buyers getting ready to head south to drop another $700 million or so. We got caught up on Kirstine Stewart’s surprise  announcement that she was ditching CBC to go work for Twitter. How do

Lucas Oleniuk/TORONTO STAR I’ve met critics who think they are rock stars, but only one I knew really was. Greg Quill died suddenly on Sunday at his home in Hamilton, Ont. He was 66. He had recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea and apparently died from complications due to pneumonia. Quill covered a variety of

Starlight’s Big 3 Paul Gross, David Cronenberg and Robert Lantos Looking for some crackling good reading on the future of Canadian television? You could do worse than to peruse the transcripts coming out of Gatineaux from the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission hearings into mandatory distribution. One overall impression that stands out: this is indeed a

Man, Lego has come a long way. Just spotted this on a Facebook post. (Thank you, Caroline Godin.) The makers of these TV shows must see these skillfully-animated viral videos (this one attributed to Brian Anderson) much the same way series creators and producers in the ’60s and ’70s saw those great Mad magazine parodies–as

Vanessa: just heard Kirstine Stewart left CBC for Twitter Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on Space, it’s time to hit the Panic Button.This creepy new, shot-in-Toronto series turns those messed up Saw movies into a reality show.I had a tour of the set last year and couldn’r believe people would line up to put themselves