TV

Casting Call: Dinner Party Wars
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No Comments
If you ever watch Food Network Canada you’ve most likely caught an episode of Dinner Party Wars. It’s the show where a couple hosts a dinner party, competing against two...
FX Canada launches in November
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No Comments
Rogers Media is bringing the American specialty channel FX to Canada in November, and popular shows such as Louie, Sons of Anarchy, and the new comedy series Wilfred are coming...
Nominees for 26th annual Gemini Awards announced
Posted on August 3, 2011 | No Comments
The nominees for the 26th annual Gemini Awards were announced this morning at the Intercontinental Hotel’s SkyLounge in Toronto. The Gemini Awards, organized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and...
Geek talk with ‘Fanboy Confessional’ creator Michael McNamara
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No Comments
Fanboy Confessional is a new documentary series that celebrates “geek culture” without mocking the people being featured. The first season, which kicks of tonight (July 13) at 10 p.m. ET...
Biting into ‘True Blood’ actress Mariana Klaveno
Posted on June 1, 2011 | No Comments
When Mariana Klaveno was cast on the hit HBO show True Blood as the role of Lorena, the vamp who turned Stephen Moyer’s character Bill Compton into a bloodsucker, she...
Teaser for new ‘Charlie’s Angels’ TV show
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No Comments
First it was a TV show, then it was a movie franchise, and now it’s a TV show again? I think the people in charge of the Charlie’s Angels property...
Seven filmmakers exhibit their version of the Seven Deadly Sins in new series
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No Comments
Seven Canadian filmmakers will showcase their vision of the seven deadly sins in two-minute shorts that will precede a special new series on Bravo! The hour-long series, entitled In Short...
How to watch the Royal Wedding in Canada
Posted on April 28, 2011 | No Comments
We’ve been having internal battles at Criticize This! about whether or not we would promote this joke known as the Royal Wedding. We finally caved and have put together a...
‘Paranormal Home Inspection’ series comes to TV this fall
Posted on April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ever wondered what it would be like if you tried to cross Holmes on Homes with Ghost Hunters? Those few who’ve ever asked themselves that question may get their answer,...
Food Network serves up major hit with ‘Top Chef Canada’
Posted on April 14, 2011 | No Comments
The April 11th premiere of Top Chef Canada, based on the award-winning U.S. series Top Chef, pulled in record numbers, making it the most watched original premiere in Food Network...
On-Air: The F Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist
Posted on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the CBC is running The F Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist, a documentary investigating whether feminism is still relevant...
On-Air: Franklin and Friends
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
You know Franklin, that little turtle your kids love to watch on TV in the morning and read stories about before bed? It’s his 25th anniversary this year and to...
On-Air: The Conspiracy Show
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No Comments
I’m a sucker for conspiracy-type documentaries and shows. Not a hardcore nut, but I like to believe there are things happening in our world that would only seem plausible in...
On-Air: Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Posted on January 26, 2011 | No Comments
Are the Alberta oil sands causing cancer in residents of the Northern Alberta Native community Fort Chipewyan? That’s what freshwater scientist Dr. David Schindler and Fort Chipewyan leader Dene Elder...
On-Air: Code Breakers
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No Comments
In the documentary Code Breakers, anthropologist Niobe Thompson shows how a small group of archaeologists and geneticists are close to rewriting the story of human migration to the Americas. If...