From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Link: Does the CBC define Canadian culture? But the CBC is there permanently, looming over everything, and last week’s shindig was more peculiar than usual. It was less about announcing a new season of CBC TV and mentioning some radio achievement than it was about announcing that … Continue reading Link: Does the CBC define Canadian culture?
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Link: Why the fuss about funding We Are Canada? It’s just tedious TV I’m aware of the series called We Are Canada, but had declined to draw your attention to it because, well, it is that most fatiguing of things to write about – a worthy, well-meaning … Continue reading Link: Why the fuss about funding We Are Canada? It’s just tedious TV
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Link: What Would Sal Do? Be crude, dumb and very funny What Would Sal Do? (now streaming on CraveTV) is the latest entry in the arena and it’s darn funny without having quite the precision of Letterkenny or the intricately mad harmony of Trailer Park Boys, but … Continue reading Link: What Would Sal Do? Be crude, dumb and very funny
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Link: Canada: The Story of Us is just pop history for kids Canada: The Story of Us (Sunday, CBC, 9 p.m.) a peculiar production, laden and fraught. For a start, it all seems very, very official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opens the show with a cheery little … Continue reading Link: Canada: The Story of Us is just pop history for kids
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Link: Anne of Green Gables adaptation is sublimely reinvigorated Anne is adapted this time by Moira Walley-Beckett, who wrote some of the most striking episodes of Breaking Bad. The leap from that to Anne of Green Gables might seem an extraordinarily risky one, but it makes sense. Anne is a rebel, … Continue reading Links: Anne
