I like my podcast guests to feel comfortable. That’s not always possible over a zoom call, but that didn’t stop Jennifer Finnigan, currently back for a second season on CBC’s comedy-drama Moonshine. For our interview, the Montreal native chose to stay in bed. That is a level of intimacy and/or laziness usually reserved for close friends
Tonight, with a special episode, CBC celebrated the 30th season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. They really should have made it an hour-long special at least. Imagine trying to crunch over 600 episodes down to one 22-minute episode. That was the task handed to Matt Charlton, who has been associated behind the scenes with
Strays star Nicole Power has gone from Kim’s Convenience to Kim Cattrall. The busy Newfoundland native, whose CBC series Strays is back Tuesday nights on CBC and CBC Gem, is currently finishing up the first season of another shot-in-Toronto series, Glamorous. The upcoming Netflix series stars Cattrall as a power player in the cosmetic business. Power’s
Whether or not you’ve been watching Summit 72 — the documentary series about Team Canada’s incredible summit series victory over the Soviet Union — don’t miss tonight’s final episode. The last hour takes you back fifty years to the eighth and final game — the one where Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds remaining —
Monday night, the cast and crew of This Hour Has 22 Minutes took over the Glenn Gould Theatre at the CBC Broadcast Centre. The occasion was the first-ever Toronto taping of the sketch series, which normally is based each week in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Toronto episode airs tonight at 8/7c on CBC and CBC
Another milestone in Canadian television is reached with the 50th anniversary of the launch of The Beachcombers. Canadians coast-to-coast were still buzzing over Team Canada’s last-minute heroics over the Soviet Union in the Summit series when The Beachcombers premiered on CBC Television on October 1, 1972. The series starred Bruno Gerussi as log scavenger Nick Adonidas
Last Monday’s coverage of the final services for Queen Elizabeth II drew a large daytime audience — but nowhere near as spectacular as has been hyped. There were initial social media reports suggested that this was TV’s biggest show ever, with a worldwide audience of four billion. People, please. According to the British audience research
Wednesday night, the puck drops on a documentary about a hockey series that blew my teenagee mind 50 years ago. Airing over four consecutive Wednesdays, Summit 72 is a four-part docuseries about the 1972 culture clash on ice known as Team Canada vs. The U.S.S.R. It pitted Canadian pros long-banned at the Olympics and in