While indulging in my awful habit of endless TV watching, I suddenly recognized that I turn on subtitles for almost everything I watch. It has nothing to do with my hearing (which admittedly is lousy), but everything to do with the befuddling world of British accents. All of my favourite viewing right now comes from
Eight years ago today, the surviving cast members from SCTV – everyone except John Candy and Harold Ramis – gathered in Toronto at the Elgin Theatre for what was supposed to be the opening scenes of an upcoming documentary. That idea seems to have slid right off director Martin Scorsese’s to-do list. Instead, individual members
It is always going to be risky when you launch a new TV show and call it Big Mistakes (streaming now on Netflix). If you are Dan Levy, however, how else do you follow Schitt’s Creek? After sweeping every Emmy, one thing you get to do is call your next series what ever you want.
All those extra innings Monday night has some critics trying to calculate if Game 3 lasted longer than Ken Burns documentary series Baseball. It did not but close. Here are the box scores from Games 3 and 4 Monday and Tuesday: Monday October 27: this was the 18-inning, six-and-a-half hour marathon won by the Dodgers.
For any of us who covered Charlie Sheen’s dark “Tiger Blood” days (2010-11), the prospect of re-living it can seem anything but “winning.” As the former Two and a Half Men star himself says towards the end of the two-part, three hour Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, the whole world these days is a bit
Every Sunday night back in the 1950s and ’60s families would gather around their living room TV and watch The Ed Sullivan Show. The variety hour ran 23 seasons, ending 54 years ago in 1971. Now streaming on Netflix, the documentary Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan is not just another “best of” blast of nostalgia.
When I interviewed this century’s most successful creator of sitcoms — Chuck Lorre — earlier this summer for a podcast, I asked if he had any new shows coming up. He immediately singled out Leanne, which premiered Thursday on Netflix. All 16 first-season episode are available now. Lorre, who has worked with some pretty fair
Before there was Saturday Night Live, MuchMusic or MTV, the really big shew with hottest music acts was The Ed Sullivan Show. It began in 1948 as The Toast of the Town, with bold face newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan introducing, between the plate spinners, acrobats, comedians and a little puppet mouse named Toppo Gigio, everyone