I’ll never forget the time I went to interview Graham Greene and he was dressed as a tree. The Oscar nominated actor (for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner’s 1990 feature “Dances with Wolves”) could play anything. Besides a tree, as he once told George Stroumboulopoulos, he played “an old Jewish man in
It doesn’t take long for Emma Hunter’s frisky DJ Nora to jump back into action on Moonshine (CBC; The CW). As Season Three begins, she’s having sex in a car with her police officer boyfriend (played by James Gilbert). Sorry, America. You won’t see that scene in the U.S. Hunter’s auto erotic antics, as well as the
A week into 2020, with schedules starting to heat up again, it’s time to get back to the numbers. Scheduling moves over the holidays generally fall into the stunt or one-off category. This is especially true of New Year’s Eve. This December 31, CBC programmers decided to end the year with five episodes of Family
If you’re looking for some escapist fare this week, break out over to the Documentary Channel and check out “Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars.” After a whirl through the festival circuit, the Paradox Pictures production makes its TV debut Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Go-Boy is prison slang for somebody who escapes
I had heard rumblings that there wasn’t going to be a Royal Canadian Air Farce special this New Year’s Eve. What? No F-bomb adios? No splatter fiesta all over Doug Ford’s noggin? Thought I’d better go directly to the source on this one: Don Ferguson. The always engaging Farce co-founder met me for lunch late
Justin Trudeau and Cardi B steal the show in the annual Air Farce New Year’s Eve special. It airs tonight, Dec. 31 at 8 pm (8:30 pm in Newfoundland) on CBC and will be repeated just after midnight. Younger sketch mates Chris Wilson and Isabel Kanaan shine in this slick “Farce Film” which borrows Justin
Friday I headed downtown to the CBC Broadcast Centre with my next door neighbours Doug and Roberta to see another taping of The Royal Canadian Air Farce. The occasion was the annual Air Farce New Year’s Eve Special, a TV tradition that began in 1992. And, yes, we did stop at Apache Burger later in
MONTREAL — There’s an expression here at Just for Laughs: “Jump-the-liners.” These are folks who — in the minds of many stand-up comedians who have put in their dues in comedy clubs from Saskatchewan to Van Nuys — have had their big comedy break handed to them on a silver platter. One veteran comic I