Dr. David Suzuki has been hosting The Nature of Things for 40 seasons. In TV terms, that’s forever. To put it in perspective, it’s ten years longer than The Simpsons! He’d like to hand the series off to younger hands, but, as he told me the other day on the phone from his home in
These eight-episode seasons come and go in a flash. Case in point: the second season finale of Coroner airs Monday night on CBC. In real coroner terms, it seems like the body is still warm! The series stars Serinda Swan as Jenny Cooper, a coroner dedicated to speaking for the dead in order to protect
In a world where there’s a burden placed on trying to keep up with everything new on television, Burden of Truth is a homegrown series that deserves a second look. The Wednesday night CBC drama, seen stateside in the summer months on The CW, stars Kristin Kreuk as big city litigator turned crusading small town
Ever since she was a child, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki has been fascinated by what goes on under the tides. The daughter of famed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, she loved exploring tidal pools near the family cabin on Quadra Island in British Columbia. It’s a world where, she says, “I learned to snorkel before I could swim.”
Canadian viewers who watched the premiere of Star Trek: Picard on CTV Sci-fi last Thursday sent the premiere ratings into orbit. Overnight estimates show the series drew 1,128,000 viewers coast to coast in Canada.That made it the third most-watched broadcast network or specialty channel offering of the night. The total doesn’t even include viewers who
PASADENA, Calif. — Canada Day at TCA continued Monday afternoon with the Pop TV panel for Schitt’s Creek. This month, the series launched its sixth and final season in both Canada (on CBC) and the United States. The four main leads — Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy — took a final
Paging Doctor television! Is there a surge in Canadian-made medical shows? I argue yes in a feature I wrote appearing in today’s Toronto Star. Fact is, after years of ratings dominance by No. 1 hit The Big Bang Theory, The Good Doctor, as seen on CTV, is now the No. 1 series in Canada. Other
CBC’s week-long mid-season roll out of new and returning shows seemed to run into a wall of clutter Wednesday, at least in overnight estimates. Third year series Burden of Truth returned at 8 p.m. to 265,000 overnight, estimated viewers. At 9 p.m. on CBC, the premiere of the cross border spy drama Fortunate Son was