From Melissa Hank of Canada.com:
Link: Telly With Melly: Bob Martin of Michael: Every Day talks own phobias
“I’m very much a control freak. There’s a lot of me in that character, for sure. In fact, I would say that David is all the worst parts of me. I would love to be a psychologist, so it’s great for me to live vicariously through that character, to enact all my worst possible scenarios in life through that character.” Continue reading.
From Jake Howell of the Toronto Star:
Link: Nirvanna the Band’s wild Toronto antics are supremely funny
Of all the legendary concert venues in Toronto, Nirvanna the Band frontmen Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are interested in playing a show at only one: the Rivoli, a Queen St. W. club known these days for its standup comedy scene and cavernous pool hall.
In fact, playing a show at the Rivoli is entirely the premise of Nirvanna the Band the Show, Johnson and McCarrol’s hilarious new “semi-scriptedâ€Â television series that’s to debut weekly on Viceland on Feb. 2 and on City in March. Continue reading.
From David Silverberg of The Canadian Jewish News:
Link: Workin’ Moms is for everyone, not just working moms
Despite the on-the-nose title of her new CBC show, Catherine Reitman says Workin’ Moms is not just for, well, working mothers.
“Most humans have felt an identity crisis at some point in their lives,†Reitman says in an interview at a downtown Toronto restaurant. “This is about people returning to work after a dramatic event.†Continue reading.
From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:
Link: Women Behind Canadian TV: April Mullen
“If you enter the industry in the traditional sense it takes such a long time to slowly go up the ladder. If you’re a young woman that’s in love with film and want to be a director, you have to leave school and start creating work and directing shorts right away. If that’s the position you are vying for, then claim that position and start directing immediately because that’s what you’ll be seen as.” Continue reading.
From Will Thorne of Variety:
Link: Daniel Levy on Showing One of the First Pansexuals on TV in ‘Schitt’s Creek’
“A girl came up to me on the street and said the show changed the dynamic in her family. Her brother’s gay, and her parents had never accepted him. But by watching the way that Johnny and Moira interact with David in our show — how accepting they are — it was able to inform this girl’s parents in ways they hadn’t seen before. You often forget, because you’re so inside it, that television has power. And for us, any chance we get to project a world where things are good and right, that’s all we can hope to do.” Continue reading.
