After handing out eleventy million-billion trophies over the past week, the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards also registered some impressive viewership numbers for Sunday’s televised gala. The two-hour, film and television industry awards was carried by CTV (with 199,000 viewers), Global (166,000) and CBC (138,000) for a combined average minute audience of a little over half
My guest this episode is an executive producer who helped guide Schitt’s Creek to a canoe full of Emmy and CSA awards. He’s currently one of the executive producers on another wonderful sitcom, Son of a Critch, shockingly ignored — nomination wise — at this year’s Canadian Screen Awards. Yes, it is Andrew Barnsley and he’s just
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC’s Son of a Critch. This conversation took place last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., in McDowell’s trailer which was parked outside the Bella Vista banquet hall. It had been an exciting
Chances are that Donald J. Trump, the now and possible future President of the United States, has never heard of the CBC. He probably thinks the first two letters refer to Cheese Burgers. But the ‘very stable genius’ may have handed our embattled national broadcaster a lifeline. Canadians are in a patriot fervor these days,
Yes, that’s me in the shadows on tonight’s episode of Son of a Critch. I was in St. John’s interviewing the cast last August during production of Season 4 of the CBC sitcom. When I was asked if I’d like to also sneak into a scene as an extra or “background performer,” it didn’t take
Speaking of Talking to Americans: if ever we needed some frank talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. Not that he addresses the news of the past weekend. I caught up with the CBC Hall of Famer last summer in St. John’s on the set of Son of a Critch. The native son plays Mark
Every time I interview Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, he seems a half-foot taller than the last time I spoke with him. Yet his ego never grows as I found out last summer in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Ainsworth, of course, plays young Mark Critch, circa 1990, on the CBC sitcom. We were outdoors on location on a residential
There were some terrific dramas on television in 2024. Shogun (FX Networks/Disney+ in Canada) was a big budget movie a week, an impressive, uber subtitled effort and an example of Vancouver crew work at its finest. Kudos as well to Golden Globe nominated Hiroyuki Sanada as lead actor. Franklin, on AppleTV+, was another international, historical