From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:
Canadian TV, as we know it, is dead
A person needs to keep a close and constant eye on the Canadian TV racket.
Look away for a minute and shocking events unfold. In the blink of an eye, every pundit in this great country has pontificated already. Most know nothing about television but being “in the media,†they like to pronounce. Continue reading.
From Dana Gee of The Province:
Sasso happy to flee L.A. for CBC’s Fool Canada
Attention TV/film producers, if you’re shooting your project in Canada, actor Will Sasso wants you to give him a call. “When there’s some interest for me to do something in Canada, and I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m already 50, 75 per cent there,†said Sasso, who grew up in Ladner but has spent the last almost 20 years living and working out of L.A. Continue reading.
From Allison Johnelle Boron of Popdose.ca:
Why the Kids in the Hall today are better than ever
In the late ’90s when I finally convinced my mom I was too old for a babysitter, she left me home with my best friend, the television. In those days, daytime TV was broken down into two major categories: trashy talk shows and reruns. These were the glory days of Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake (the eternal paternity-tester Maury Povich was actually the more innocuous of the bunch), so my interest quickly waned. Continue reading.
From Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star:
Five Things We Learned About k.d. lang from Balletlujah
Balletlujah, the CBC Television special premiering Thursday, is about k.d. lang, the prairie that nurtured her and the music that came out of the symbiosis between those two powerful forces. Continue reading.
From Bill Harris of Postmedia Network:
k.d. lang gives voice to CBC special ‘Balletlujah’
As kindred sports fans, k.d. lang and I shared the same fear. So you have ballet dancers performing to lang’s music in the new TV special Balletlujah, which debuts Thursday, June 18 on CBC. Fair enough. But in more than one scene, the performances are taking place in Prairie fields. My God, don’t those dancers need a flawlessly flat surface? Isn’t that dangerous? Continue reading.
