While, for a few days, the announcement seemed stuck in second gear, Crave finally copped to being the home in Canada for Friends: The Reunion. The unscripted special streams Thursday, May 27 on HBO Max in the US and on Crave in Canada. Last December, Bell Media struck a deal to be the exclusive home
One of the great late night talk show guests of all time was Charles Grodin. Who else was cocky enough to slump down next to Johnny Carson and ask if he cared at all about any of his guests? (As he does in the above clip from 1990.) The studio audience and viewers at home
Reports of the SCTV/Scorsese documentary’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The good news was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson from Insight, the Toronto production house that shot the 2018 SCTV cast reunion. “The project has not been shelved, just delayed due to Mr. Scorsese’s other production commitments.” A few days ago, original SCTV writer-performer Joe
New Rule: stop being shocked every time Bill Maher says something that skates over the hard line that is cancel culture. That is, after all, his job. Yes, he’s made some egregious mistakes in the past. He claimed that Islam, “has too much in common with ISIS.” In 2017, he used the N-word to make
There’s so much damn television released every week that these calendar listing have to be done in steps. Please check back as this page will be updated all month. SUN/MAY 2 The Story of Late Night (CNN). This six-part docuseries, from executive producer Bill Carter and Toronto’s Cream Productions, features a Who’s Who of late
It’s been a while since I was this bang-on in an Oscar pool: Sunday’s 93rd annual Academy Awards sunk to an all time low of 9.85 million viewers on ABC according to Nielsen fast national results. In a poll of TV prognosticators conducted a week ago by the Programming Insider’s Douglas Pucci, I had the
The plan was not to end Kim’s Convenience with tonight’s episode. Sometimes, however, the universe unfolds as it should. What was meant as the fifth season finale, “Friends and Family,” will instead bring the series to a close. Most who read here will already be familiar with the reasons behind the sudden shut down: despite
When I started hosting podcasts a year-and-a-half ago, one of the people high on my guest list was Slawko Klymkiw. There are many reasons for this. First of all, Slawko has spent over 40 years towering over the media landscape in Canada. His list of achievements are many, both as head of programming at CBC