Last January, CBC green-lit the guns-drawn drama The Border, which was pitched as “24, but with a conscience” and is nominated for nine Geminis at this Friday’s awards ceremony.
BY Joshua Ostroff
From the televised Kenyan street parties in the wake of Obama’s triumph to the squabbling contestants on the latest season of Survivor, to the kiddie cartoon Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and the ...
TV shows set in high schools are notorious for having overly mature actors relive their teen years.
The rise of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber has recently reignited the Duh-bya era’s rabid anti-intellectualism, somehow turning “educated” into a (nearly) socially acceptable slur. So it was with his...
This Tuesday marks the climactic season finale of TV’s best-ever reality show: the US presidential race.
Music television channels are replete with reality shows that have little in the way of, y’know, music.
Few young actors can claim as impressive an initial run as Christian Slater. With his Jack Nicholson-inspired delivery (and eyebrows), Slater nailed the alt-era’s most iconic teen-flick characters: the clique-conscious sociopath in Heathers and the ...
Two pillars of Canadian comedy, Corner Gas and Royal Canadian Air Farce, have just launched their last-ever seasons.
Current events on the North American political landscape suggest that the glass ceiling may finally be shattering, but women have always found a way to influence world affairs.
J.J. Abrams wasn’t always the king of cult TV. Before the auteur’s creepy new sci-fi thriller Fringe, before his temporally challenged desert-island drama Lost and the prophecy-laden spy escapades of Alias, Abrams created the straightforward college soap ...
