Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My TV Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Martha Burns is a Canadian theatre legend, appearing on stages across the country and serving as a founding member of one of our greatest companies- Soulpepper. She’s most beloved, however, for her award-winning turn in the cult […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Flashpoint star Sergio di Zio made a massive splash on stage in 2014 in the first major production at the new Coal Mine Theatre on the Danforth, the Canadian premiere of The Motherfucker with the Hat. As […]
This was a great year of TV. It was a massively terrible year for network TV with few new hits and tons of stupid cancellations (6 shows on this list have already been cancelled or are in their final season) but it was still a great year of TV because, while the executives were making […]
I came late to the bandwagon when it comes to Orphan Black. It took a long summer and a persistent roommate to get me to finally dive into a series that my cooler (and Canadian) friends had been begging me to watch for years. Here’s the basic premise, although if you haven’t seen the show […]
Trailer Park Boys is the show that fans constantly say goodbye to and yet they always welcome it back with open arms. At this point, the show has ended on two separate occasions and, following the true-to-form theatrical release Countdown to Liquor Day, it seemed like the boys’ adventures were ending for good. Normally, I […]
Global’s new medical drama is a fantastically solid primetime offering. Like Rookie Blue before it, Remedy is the sort of well-produced, highly watchable, long-term-potential fare that can do a lot to support Canada’s ever-improving but still flimsy television landscape. Both filmed and unabashedly set in Toronto, Remedy is a Canadian production that uses Canadian actors […]
“It’s my first show,” she says to me, beaming. “I’ve been shooting forever! I started on dad’s old school Nikon,” she continues, all in one breath, “I just loved to take pictures!” Ali Eisner is standing beside me, among many others crammed into the Gladstone Hotel’s Art Bar. She wears a dark green, styled hunting […]
There’s this little BBC America show about clones—Orphan Black?—you might have heard of it (and how people are ready to swear bloody vengeance because a certain actress was Emmy snubbed). Orphan Black begins with troubled, tough, drug-dealing/doing Sarah Manning at a train station, suddenly pulled into a tangled web of half-information and deceit when she […]