From Isabelle Khoo of Parentdish.ca:
Best kids TV: 10 things you didn’t know about ‘The Friendly Giant’
For 27 years, The Friendly Giant asked us to look up — waaay up — so that he could tell us fascinating tales and play us charming tunes with his puppet friends Rusty and Jerome. In that time, Friendly’s charisma captivated kids across the country, making his show a staple for generations. Continue reading.
From James Bawden:
Thank goodness few Canadian rely on TV for any knowledge about their country’s past. Canadian TV dramas these days are carefully crafted to seem as American as possible when exported to the U.S.
So it’s with a cheer that I herald CBC-TV’s new Canadian spy series X Company which dramatically details the exploits of our spies during World War II. The new hourlong drama which debuts Wednesday February 18 at 9 p.m., is exciting stuff. And it’s all true, too. Continue reading.
From Slate:
The Winding Circumlocutions of Schitt’s Creek Reviews
Schitt’s Creek. There. I said it. Which is more than David Bianculli, TV critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, was able to do on Tuesday in his review of this new sitcom. It’s a show about a rich family, the Roses, that loses everything except the deed to a town purchased decades earlier as a joke. Here’s Bianculli twisting himself into Federal Communications Commission–approved knots… Continue reading.
From Victoria Ahearn of the Canadian Press:
CBC’s ‘X Company’ based on real Second World War spy camp in Ontario
It’s 1942 and a group of Allied agents are training at a top-secret facility — not in Europe, but on the shores of Lake Ontario. The premise behind the new CBC series “X Company” stems from a part of Canada’s Second World War history that many don’t know about, say the stars. Continue reading.
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:
So farewell then, Sun News. Gone on Friday the 13th with a wee whimper.
How to classify the closing? It is tempting to mock. Shortly after Sun News went dark came a release from Fox announcing that 10 more episodes of World’s Funniest Fails had been ordered. Tempting to throw Sun News into World’s Funniest Fails. Tempting, but wrong. Continue reading.
