This Life closes out stellar first season Is the CBC paying for this site? The show was painfully boring and poorly produced. Our standards for television are higher now, and a show with stylistic sensibilities in line with early ’90s television is not acceptable or even watchable. This Life is abysmal, nobody watched it, the … Continue reading Comments and queries for the week of December 18
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: The top 10 most irritating Canadians of 2015 (TV-related) The matter of determining the top most-irritating Canadians on TV and in the TV-related arena is vital. At this most auspicious time of the year, we are often given to declaring, “Enough already!†And we are entitled. Irritation … Continue reading Link: The top 10 most irritating Canadians of 2015 (TV-related)
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: CRTC should listen to TV critics, just like everyone else It seems to me that this – the so-called discoverability issue – is a circumstance in which new media can learn from old media. Critics matter. A third-party, independent assessment and recommendation drives viewers to a TV … Continue reading Link: CRTC should listen to TV critics, just like everyone else
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Canadian TV, as we know it, is screwed. For now The old advertising model has been shattered and nobody knows what the looming pick-and-pay change is going to do to the specialty channel menu. Nothing will ever be the same. Profits can be achieved but nothing like … Continue reading Link: Canadian TV, as we know it, is screwed. For now
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail: Meet the puffins. They can cure everything that ails us Puffin Patrol (CBC, 8 p.m. on The Nature of Things) is a delight. Atlantic puffins is the topic and boy, oh, boy, are they captivating. If you want a jaunt on the cute side while learning a lot about … Continue reading Link: Meet the puffins. They can cure everything that ails us
