From Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star:
UFOs Declassified looks at hard evidence behind infamous sightings
There is, to be blunt, a lot of nonsense about UFOs out there. Airy-fairy, touchy-feely, “Welcome, alien brothers and sisters†New Age ho-hum. Unsubstantiated, conspiratorial conjecture. And pure, unadulterated fiction. Continue reading.
From CBC’s The Current:
Lawrence Hill: ‘The Book of Negroes’ speaks to race issues today
Lawrence Hill’s novel “Book of Negroes” is making its TV debut in the six-part miniseries tonight on CBC TV. Lawrence Hill joins us with the series’ star, Aunjanue Ellis to talk about bringing the book to the small screen, and how its themes of slavery and freedom still resonate today, in the age of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Read and listen here.
From John Doyle of The Globe & Mail:
The fine new Canadian series Sunnyside (City, 8 p.m.) is just six actors doing daft comedy.
A mash-up of sketch comedy and sitcom, it is set in the sort of neighbourhood that most urbanites in Canada will recognize – the reluctantly gentrified slum, where yummy mommies with their Cadillac strollers pretend they don’t see the sex workers and drug dealers on the street and where ancient dive bars compete with high-end coffee shops. This being a sort-of sketch comedy thing, very strange things happen in the ’hood called Sunnyside. Continue reading.
From Jim Bawden:
Something strange has happened to the state of Canadian TV comedy this season.
The laughs stopped coming.
Think of it –the number of brilliant Canadian sketch TV comedy shows which dominated the medium: Wayne And Shuster, SCTV, Kids In The Hall, The Frantics, RCAF, Ron James.
All expired for different reasons leaving only the venerable This Hour Has 22 Minutes to hold down the fort. Maybe the pendulum is swinging again because a new Canadian sketch comedy series called Sunnyside premieres on City Thursday night at 8. Continue reading.
From Jacob Robinson of the Simcoe Reformer:
Stewart returns for Season 2
Jarvis Raines is back, and Kolton Stewart couldn’t be happier about it. Stewart — a 15-year-old Lynedoch native who plays Raines on YTV’s ‘Some Assembly Required’ — returns to his starring role in the show’s Season 2. Continue reading.