Lucas Oleniuk/TORONTO STAR I’ve met critics who think they are rock stars, but only one I knew really was. Greg Quill died suddenly on Sunday at his home in Hamilton, Ont. He was 66. He had recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea and apparently died from complications due to pneumonia. Quill covered a variety of
Starlight’s Big 3 Paul Gross, David Cronenberg and Robert Lantos Looking for some crackling good reading on the future of Canadian television? You could do worse than to peruse the transcripts coming out of Gatineaux from the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission hearings into mandatory distribution. One overall impression that stands out: this is indeed a
Man, Lego has come a long way. Just spotted this on a Facebook post. (Thank you, Caroline Godin.) The makers of these TV shows must see these skillfully-animated viral videos (this one attributed to Brian Anderson) much the same way series creators and producers in the ’60s and ’70s saw those great Mad magazine parodies–as
Vanessa: just heard Kirstine Stewart left CBC for Twitter Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on Space, it’s time to hit the Panic Button.This creepy new, shot-in-Toronto series turns those messed up Saw movies into a reality show.I had a tour of the set last year and couldn’r believe people would line up to put themselves
Stewart’s curse was that she looked like she could headline a CBC drama Being the top programming executive of the CBC is a little like being captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs. You spend most of your time defending, get jeered even when you score and are a target every time you take to the
The above video, if you haven’t already seen it, is from Saturday’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner. It is funny, and at the same time a bit surprising and disorienting in that it basically wrangles the President of the United States into a sketch, not unlike how Saturday Night Live might drop Alec Baldwin or Justin
Second in a series of Mad Men character sketches by mydaughter Katie–collect them all A friend–let’s call her the Media Mistress of Mill Street–suggested recently that it was time to warm up Don Draper’s jet ski: Mad Men had jumped the shark.Sacrilege, I thought. This is a show I’d watch in German or Mandarin Chinese
Late getting this up (I hate when that happens), but congratulations to all the winners at the 17th Annual Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards held Monday night at the UNIUN Nightclub in Toronto. Screenwriters Andrew Wreggitt (The Phantoms), Martin Gero (L.A. Complex), Kim Coghill (Less Than Kind), Dan Williams & Lienne Sawatsky (the animated