As Joel Keller writes in Decider, “The Empress tries to fill the sexy costume drama hole that Bridgerton has left between seasons.” The sexy costume drama stars Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth, the willfully independent young Empress of Austria, who ruled from 1854-1898. It was back in a much simpler time when inbreeding led to dynasties and
It discourages me that so many viewers are that interested in serial killer TV shows. I get it: people are fascinated by monsters. Still, do we have to package and market and sell real life serial killers to audiences throughout the world? Does this not, in some ways, celebrate them, or at least raise them
The fifth Season premiere of Cobra Kai was the most-watched Netflix program in Canada the week of September 5-11. Cobra Kai clocked the most Netflix hours that same week in 83 countries, including The United States, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy and The United Kingdom. Also cracking the chart in its first week in Canada were
With American network schedules on life support this summer, time to bring in the Coroner. The COVID pandemic has shut down production on many shows, and forced networks to push other series returns back until the fall. Usually exclusively in the export business, American networks have had to up their imports, including a reach across
Way back last April I was invited to the set of Nurses, a Canadian-made hospital series set in Toronto. Nine months later, it premieres this Monday night at 8 p.m. on Global. I’m not here to pan it or even bed pan it. There are some folks behind it who have made several very successful
Female police characters have been arresting TV viewers for decades. Police Woman, starring Angie Dickinson, went off the air forty years ago. Cagney & Lacey, which starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as “buddy cops” (and is soon to be re-booted), ended its seven-year run in 1988. In recent years, Canada’s Rookie Blue was a
Many thanks to co-founders Hamlin Grange, Cynthia Reyes and all who worked to pull together Innoversity Summit 2014 Tuesday and Wednesday in Toronto. I had the good fortune to mederate a panel of “Canadian TV Goldmakers, Haymakers, Groundbreakers, Hitmakers.” Whatever you call them, they were a blue ribbon panel: Saving Hope co-creator and showrunner Morwyn
Wednesday in Toronto, I’ve been asked to moderate a panel of Canadian television “hitmakers” at the Innoversity Creative Summit. The two hour discussion starts at 10 a.m. at the Toronto Reference Library just north of Bloor on Yonge. The panel features miracle workers–individuals who not only created TV shows but got them on the air