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Motive Returns To CTV For A Second season
I enjoyed chatting up the stars of CTV's police procedural series Motive when the first batch of episodes ran last season.The show which is shot in and around Burnaby B.C. was an instant hit on both...
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Adventures Of Dr. Crackhead: A Major Find
I plopped in the DVD review copy of the new two-hour documentary The Adventures Of Dr. Crackhead simply because I found the title intriguing.I stayed to watch the entire two-hour production because it...
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Strombo's Departure: First Of Many
Why did it take CBC so long to bounce the invariably low rated George Stromboulopoulos from the schedule?George debuted on CBC late nights with an hour that never went anywhere in the ratings.Then he...
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Wild Canada: Only On CBC
About the brilliant new mini-series Wild Canada film maker Jeff Turner says "It could only be made for a network like CBC which is committed over the long haul."Simply stated Wild Canada which runs...
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Ron James: "I'm Done"
I was supposed to phone up Ron James for our annual chat about his CBC-TV series.I couldn't do it in person this year since I'm still recovering from triple bypass surgery but as soon as I got on the...
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Love Under Cuban Skies Among Season's Best
I wasn't quite sure what to expect by the new TV documentary Love Under Cuban Skies.You can check it out for yourself when it debuts on CBC's Doc Zone Thursday March 20 at 9 p.m.The title is more than...
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Canadian Content Fading Fast
"There's CBC Canadian content and then there's --not much else."An esteemed veteran CBC producer is talking and he's worried that fragile edifice we call "Cancom" is headed straight for the...
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BBQ Crawl: Worth Looking At And Then Some
I usually avoid all food shows on TV these days.I liked the Food Network when it had prestigious chefs who could tell us exactly how to make a masterpiece.But lately it's degenerated into food...
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Letterman Will Be Missed
Thursday night on his CBS Late night talk show seemed just another show for David Letterman.Until he announced he's retiring sometime next year."We don't have the timetable precisely down" Letterman...
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Silicone Valley Is Bloody Brilliant
I have just seen the future of the TV situation comedy and it is titled Silicone Valley.This brand new, hysterically funny half hour gets a special premiere Sunday night  at 10 on HBO Canada...
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I Remember Mickey Rooney
Once asked to name the best actor and actress in movies veteran James Mason instantly said "Mickey Rooney and  Margaret Rutherford."Odd choices to be sure but right on in terms of acting ability.I have...
View ArticleCBC Once Again Faces The Axe
My CBC sources have been busy all day phoning me with stories of impending doom.So what else is new?I've been writing about CBC-TV's death by a thousand cuts for decades. And still nobody at CBC will...
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CBS And Colbert: A Perfect Fit
CBS has moved with lightning speed to announce Stephen Colbert will be replacing the retiring David Letterman sometime next year.The speed is such there are industry critics who think CBS had set this...
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Mad Men: A Bit Disappointing
I have to admit the first new episode of Mad Men's truncated season (just seven episodes) was , well, pretty disappointing.First of all Don Draper had nothing much to do. Still considered an ad genius...
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Orphan Black Is Must See Canadian TV
So there I was at a high end dinner party and I was doing what every TV critic does in such august company.I asked every guest in turn for his or her list of "must see " TV shows.I'm always doing this...
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The Lost Highway: Superb TVO Documentary
Depressed about the current state of Canadian TV?May I suggest as a quick pick-me-up the beautifully realized new TVOntario documentary The Lost Highway premiering on TVO Wednesday April 23 at 9...
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Remembering Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
I first interviewed Efrem Zimbalist Jr. not in some darkened TV studio where he spent a great deal of his life but in a cramped CBC Radio Studio on Jarvis street in Toronto.It was 1978 and Zimbalist,...
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There Still Is Greatness On Canadian TV
In ye olden days --just a few years back actually --a documentary feature of the depth of Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight would have gotten major play on CBC-TV.After all the director is John Kastner whose...
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Canadian TV May Soon Be Extinct
The trouble with Canadian TV is that there's not much Canadian on your networks."The speaker was a British friend of mine who happened to be traveling through and sat down in her hotel suite to catch...
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Never Ever Do This At Home Returns
"It's crazy but we're being paid good money to blow things up," nervously laughs Teddy Wilson, one half (along with co-host Norm Sousa) of Never Ever Do this At Home.The spin off of a Norwegian TV hit...
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