There is a big, full page ad in today’s Toronto Star promoting tonight’s launch of Being Erica (9 p.m. on CBC). The network clearly sees this as their next breakthrough show. Having seen the first episode, it has the potential to be just that–or, as Rob Salem teased in a particularly punchy piece in last
It’s not such a Happy New Year over at Show Magazine. The final issue, featuring Kiefer Sutherland on the cover, is being delivered to Bell TV subscribers this month.That’s my cover story and you can read it at the SHOW site here. Personally, I’m really going to miss working with editor-in-chief Jennifer Warren and associate
Wrote a piece for The Canadian Press today suggesting five new shows worth checking out, all premiering this month. You can read the full article here.The list includes Being Erica, which starts Monday on CBC and stars Erin Karpluck as a 32-year-old woman whose life is falling apart. Then she meets a mysterious stranger who
Turner Classic Movie’s beautiful little year ender brings a tough year to a close with style and grace. If there was a better channel in 2008, I’d like to know about it. The recent salute to Disney’s live action films, The Age of Believing, was such a terrific Christmas present, worth it if just for
Two thousand and eight was a tough year for TV critics. Many were re-assigned or lost their jobs altogether, caught in the squeeze of higher newsprint costs, lower advertising revenues and the apparent generational shift away from daily newspapers. Roger Ebert suggested in an article a month ago that film critics–also dropping like, well, canaries–were
The end of the year brings a chance to do a little house cleaning. Here are a few stories I’ve written recently that I haven’t had a chance to post about at TV Feeds My Family.One big TV event I’ve written about several times, including Saturday’s Starweek cover story, was tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve
