Summer’s here and the time is right for…watching television? Yes, ignore that warm weather and get back inside. There’s a ton ‘o TV comin’ atcha. The success of Under The Dome two years ago seemed to spike a renewed interest in scripted network drama. That series is back for a third season (how do they
Warning! Do not watch Happyish. I’m still trying to scrub the first two episodes out of my eyes. If the miserable, aggressively unlikable characters from the series were reviewing it they would call it a total piece of s—. There would be swearing. I’ve never heard so much cursing and I’m a Leafs fan. The
Joshua Jackson has come a long way from his teen-crush days on Dawson’s Creek. The Vancouver lad survived Fringe and is now , at 36,plunged straight into The Affair. The eight-part Showtime series begins Saturday on The Movie Network/Movie Central. I spoke to Jackson, always good-natured and articulate, at the summer TCA press tour in
Scott Thompson was away this week, so it was Jamie West asking the TV questions on Wednesday’s CHML AM900 radio chat. Jamie wanted to know about season two of Masters of Sex, a Showtime original airing in Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central. Season Two is airing Sunday nights s on those East-West Canada premium
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Saturday is the 30th annual TCA Awards but you can hand out one award now–CBS wins for Best Press Tour Party Venue. Critics have been shuttled to the Pacific Design Centre before, but always to an event space on an upper floor. The sweeping outdoor plaza level provided plenty of space for
Penny Dreadful is no Hilarious House of Frightenstein. For one thing, the new Showtime Gothic horror series, which debuts Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on The Movie Network/Movie Central, takes itself way too seriously. Too much sloth, not enough Igor. The idea all along was to play it straight, as creator/executive producer John Logan (the
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–The big buzz on press tour Tuesday was not inside the hotel, but overhead. As critics picked through a Dexter-themed lunch outdoors at the Beverly Hilton’s Oasis Courtyard, a small aircraft circled in the sky, pulling a banner which read, “D NEVINS SHO FANS YOU CARE SAVE THE BORGIAS.COM.”The plea was aimed at
Voight and Schreiber:Donovan has daddy issues I just dunno about this guy Ray Donovan. His series premiered Sunday night at 10 p.m. on Showtime and in Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central. Broadway and film star Liev Schreiber stars as the ultimate Los Angeles fixer, a strong, silent type who does the dirty work for