From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: CBC needs funding but money doesn’t buy smarts or class Right now, let’s talk TV, as the CRTC has been urging us for several years. CBC can make very good TV, but it doesn’t know what to do when it achieves that. There are two new dramas … Continue reading Link: CBC needs funding but money doesn’t buy smarts or class
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Trilingual series Blood and Water is a brilliantly messy drama The drama is, however, truly anchored by Jo Bradley (Steph Song), a young detective who wants to control the case while dealing, secretly, with a grave medical problem of her own. The Jo character is finely drawn, … Continue reading Link: Trilingual series Blood and Water is a brilliantly messy drama
From John Doyle in the Globe and Mail: With a new government, it’s time for a clear-out in Canadian TV This column takes note of the epic shift in our nation and sees it as the occasion for a complete changing of the guard in the Canadian TV racket. Things change, things come to an … Continue reading Link: With a new government, it’s time for a clear-out in Canadian TV
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: The Romeo Section is a subtly sexy thriller for grown-ups Welcome to The Romeo Section (CBC, 9 p.m.), an expertly made and deftly engrossing cerebral thriller. Eight years after CBC cancelled Intelligence, creator Chris Haddock is back with this, an espionage drama that is John le Carré-esque in its depiction … Continue reading Link: The Romeo Section is a subtly sexy thriller for grown-ups
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: CBC’s This Life: Not deep, but touching, humorous and admirable This Life is not as pedestrian as most U.S. network dramas that focus on feisty, fractious families. It is way more substantial than that. There is deftness to it, a rhythm that is close to hypnotic in the … Continue reading Link: CBC’s This Life: Not deep, but touching, humorous and admirable
