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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

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