While I’m not crazy about the too-inside basketball title, Netflix’s sports comedy Running Point is off to a fast start. The series stars Kate Hudson as reformed party girl Isla Gordon, who vaults from being the overlooked coordinator of charitable endeavours to becoming the very hands-on president of the Los Angeles Waves pro basketball team.
When the folks at Zoomer magazine asked me to write a feature celebrating “The Sound of Music” at 60, I immediately reached for a copy I have of the original roadshow screening of the movie. (You can read that story here at Everything Zoomer). Movie studios used to publish these lavish, hard cover magazine-style mementos
CTV’s three hour and forty-eight minute simulcast of Sunday’s 97th Annual Oscar Awards was watched by an overnight, estimated audience in Canada of 3,236,000 viewers. That’s down from 3.5 million in 2024. While the year before featured a contest between big box office draws such as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” I’ve already forgotten the names of
TV critics, like everyone else, sometimes get caught down rabbit holes. This morning I was on with Humble & Fred Radio (except I was speaking with “Humble” Howard Glassman and Maureen Holloway; she sitting in this month for regular co-host Fred Patterson). Howard, who assumed I had seen it, asked for a quick description of
Conan O’Brien was a great choice to host Sunday’s 97th annual Oscar telecast. After retiring at the end of 30+ years in late night, his podcast, Conan O’Brien needs a Friend, is the gold standard for celebrity conversations. He’s launched a travel series on cable and other ventures and the man has an iron stomach
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC’s Son of a Critch. This conversation took place last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., in McDowell’s trailer which was parked outside the Bella Vista banquet hall. It had been an exciting
It has been true for too many years: Canadians only think you’ve made it when you appear on American television. Take this Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. The comedian will start his show — now in its 23rd season — with a one-on-one interview with Liberal Prime Minister of Canada candidate
Chances are that Donald J. Trump, the now and possible future President of the United States, has never heard of the CBC. He probably thinks the first two letters refer to Cheese Burgers. But the ‘very stable genius’ may have handed our embattled national broadcaster a lifeline. Canadians are in a patriot fervor these days,