The second season of the slick procedural crime series Allegiance begins January 15 on CBC and CBC Gem. The shot-in-Surrey, B.C., drama stars Supinder Wraich (Sort Of), Enrico Colantoni (also great of late in English Teacher) and Samer Salem (The Expanse). I spoke with all three in Toronto at the CBC Winter Media Launch in
Allan Hawco, he of Republic of Doyle, has been visiting Saint-Pierre and Miquelon for decades. It is a little slice of France in the Atlantic not far from where he grew up, in Newfoundland. He was there not too long ago and thought, dammit, this would be a great place to set a police procedural
The new CBC series North of North has a lot going for it. The setting, a hamlet in the Arctic, is unlike anything we’ve seen on Canadian TV, and it is coldly beautiful. The cast is mostly Inuit, as are the creators and the writers, giving it a point of view unique from anything else
No man is an island. Allan Hawco’s new series, however, is shot and set on an archipelago of eight islands represented by the French government off the coast of Newfoundland. Hawco, who played a detective on Republic of Doyle and was also on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, plays Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick. He’s a cop who gets too nosy
Been wondering where the prime minister has been hiding? The answer tonight at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) as Justin Trudeau guests on CBC’s special, hour-long, New Year’s Eve edition of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The title — 22 Minutes New Year’s Eve Pregame Special — refers to the big World Junior Hockey Championships tilt
This Hour has, well, not just 22 Minutes but a full hour as I catch up with Mark Critch, this week’s guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. The conversation was taped last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., during production on the fourth season of Son of a Critch (returning Thursday, Jan. 7 on CBC and CBC Gem). What a trip
The CBC held its “Winter 2025” Media Day Thursday in Toronto. It was, as usual, well run and smartly organized, with plenty of access to the talent associated with shows either launching or returning starting early in January. Plus, yes, there was lunch. The public broadcaster’s No. 1 hit comedy Son of a Critch, which
After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate, plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready to retire. The Ottawa native never shied away from his assignments, especially when it came to reporting on football and head injuries. Back in the ’70s, he was a CFL