Fox’s newest sitcom balances on a premise that has hilarious truthful potential. Almost all teenage daughters are monsters, but to former geeks who grow up to mother girls just like the ones who tortured them, the trauma is all the more potent. It’s a tricky concept, but such a universal and generally untouched one that […]
As I’ve said before, this was a great season for new shows, but I’ve loved none so much as I’ve grown to love Pan Am. There hasn’t been a new drama this well written or an ensemble this talented since the premiere of Parenthood almost 2 years ago, and the last time I saw a […]
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is gearing up for their 60th Anniversary, recently posting the promotional photos for the 14 productions in their 2012 season. Head to www.stratfordfestival.ca for details on the upcoming shows. 42nd Street A Word or Two The Best Brothers Cymbeline Elektra Henry V Hirsch MacHomer The Matchmaker Much Ado About Nothing The […]
The last weekend in October was one of the coolest weekends I’ve ever spent in my beloved Toronto. Downtown, in the heart of the ever-gorgeous Distillery District, sits the city’s most valuable performance space: The Young Centre for the Performing Arts. The beautifully designed venue sports a spacious lobby with a bar that serves everything […]
This fall, the networks played host to the strongest crop of new shows in a very long time. There were a couple duds, of course (the sadly still alive Man Up! being the biggest offender) and a couple early-axed favourites (what can I say, I liked The Playboy Club), but so far my favourites are […]
In my University writing classes I always wanted to write inside baseball stories about how Shakespeare people talk about Shakespeare. Every professor I ever had (playwriting, screenwriting, tv writing- all of them) told me I wasn’t allowed. They said the audience would tune the characters out because they didn’t understand, that everything had to be […]
Our favourite pop/country princess has a new video, conceptualized by Taylor herself and featuring one of our favourite Dillon Panthers (aka Matt Saracen aka Zach Gilford). It couldn’t be cuter.
The CW is an odd network. It’s sort of depressing, really. Both The WB and UPN, for different reasons, were important, groundbreaking networks that provided some of the most innovative, thought-provoking and meaningful programming ever on television. They were far from perfect, but The WB especially was home to more fascinating and diverse characters and […]