Television

As I understand it, the geniuses in charge of the NHL schedule have allowed a small gap and that gap allows a doozy of a documentary to air on CBC on Thursday. The word “genius” is key here.Genius Factory (Thursday, CBC, 8 p.m.) has a lot of talk about geniuses...

Three producers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show have exited amid allegations of a dysfunctional workplace that harboured misbehaviour including sexual misconduct and racially insensitive remarks.Executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and coexecutive producer Jonathan Norman have “parted ways” with the long-running daytime series, a spokesperson for producer Warner Bros....

Ellen DeGeneres used her opening monologue of the new season of her daytime talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment, apologizing for things “that never should have happened.”“I know that I’m in a position of privilege and power and I realize that with that comes responsibility, and...

Ellen DeGeneres is calling time on her long-running talk show, according to reports.The daytime host, who has seen a ratings hit after allegations of running a toxic workplace, has decided that her upcoming season will be the last, ending in 2022. It coincides with the end of her contract.“When you’re...

“Hollywoke” screamed the front page of the New York Post in all-capitals. Beneath the headline was this: “Stars and NBC boycott the Golden Globes over sexism, diversity.” This text was placed next to photos of Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise that managed to make both the actors look unattractive and...

He didn’t mince words. He called television a “vast wasteland” and then, warming to his theme, called it, “A procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And...

There is a shared chuckle when filmmaker Barry Jenkins tells me that as a child he believed, like most children, the Underground Railroad to be an actual railroad complete with trains at the ready to relocate Black folks to freedom.There is a sweet innocence to this youthful assumption, one that...

As The Story of Late Night unfolds weekly on CNN, we are obliged to ponder this: Why is Canada bereft of such entertainment, and what is the tone and temperature of U.S. late-night in the immediate post-Trump period?On the first issue, we couldn’t take it in Canada. Nobody has the...

Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc , facing scrutiny in China over safety and customer service complaints, is boosting its engagement with mainland regulators and beefing up its government relations team, industry sources said.Tesla’s change of strategy leading to more behind-the-scenes interaction with policy-makers in Beijing compared to relatively little previously...

SpaceX launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship on Wednesday, finally nailing a test flight of the rocket ship that Elon Musk intends to use to land astronauts on the moon and send people to Mars.The previous four tests flights ended in fiery explosions before, during or soon after touchdown...

Elon Musk showed a combination of humility and hubris as he opened his highly anticipated hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.The 49-year-old Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder and one of the world’s richest men opened his monologue by mocking his monotonal speaking style, saying no one can tell when he’s joking.“It’s...

Toronto-raised entertainer Lilly Singh is getting a second season of her groundbreaking late-night talk show.The 31-year-old revealed the news in a video on her YouTube account, where she first rose to fame under the pseudonym Superwoman.A Little Late with Lilly Singh debuted last September and airs on NBC in the...

Growing up in the 90s, I still remember the lineup for after-school TV: The Fresh Princeof Bel-Air,Saved By The Bell and the Canadian classics Student Bodies and Degrassi. Though I spent hours watching these shows, there were no characters on screen who looked like me or who I could identify...

Toronto-raised entertainer Lilly Singh’s NBC late-night show is coming to a close.The YouTuber whose popularity landed her a network television gig announced on Instagram that A Little Late with Lilly Singh will end with its second season.Singh says she’s moving on to other projects that will allow her to make...

Well, it’s not exactly laugh-out-loud, fun stuff. But it’s very fine, gripping and having seen half of the six episodes, I highly recommend trying out an intriguing new series made in Quebec. Expect to be disconcerted.Way Over Me (Sortez-Moi De Moi) streams on Crave from Friday with both the French...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will host Saturday Night Live. Domino’s Pizza is experimenting with self-driving robot delivery. On the surface, these two facts have nothing to do with each other. One involves a controversial visionary known for bold innovation. The other involves Elon Musk. Together, however, they are a telling...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.A groan of disapproval met the announcement that Elon Musk would host this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Cast members Bowen Yang, Aidy Bryant and Andrew Dismukes all posted social media barbs directed at the unbeloved...

Both fiction and the memoir field are full of eccentric, difficult dads. If you want to write in those genres and your father was ordinary, you got nothing. Or so it seems.One of the more memorable figures in the entire category is the father in Paul Theroux’s novel The Mosquito...

Tuesday is the fourth of May, which is special if you’re a Star Wars fan. “May the fourth” sounds like “May the force be with you.” People dress in Star Wars costumes and watch movies and natter about such thing all day. That’s nice.This column for Tuesday, May 4, is...

“We paid Bruce McArthur $125 for his vehicle,” says an employee at Dom’s Auto Parts in Courtice, Ont. The man then explains that McArthur just accepted the first offer, took the money and left.An uncannily mundane transaction is thus described. Watching the man from Dom’s Auto relive the encounter, you’re...