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Tag: Television
We need a new kind of weather forecast
Reading Time: 3 minutes More regular reporting on extreme weather patterns would help Canadians understand the real threat of climate change
Revisiting The Boondocks in the Trump era
Reading Time: 3 minutes The comic strip turned TV show didn’t just raise eyebrows, it raised blood pressure by poking aggressively at race relations
The subsidy table is set, and actors and writers will dine
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CRTC has backed away from a 21st-century funding model for the creation of Canadian content. We’ll all be poorer as a result
Is the CFL kicking off a new sports era with live on-field audio?
Reading Time: 4 minutes For as long as the lens has followed sports, broadcasters have denied fans the language, noise and strategy of the game – until now
Mister Rogers’ well-lived life in the neighbourhood
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, examines the extraordinary life and career of Fred Rogers
Tax the Internet in the name of Canadian culture?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian production is booming. It hardly needs more official intervention – and funding – to continue to grow
Why Roseanne shouldn’t have been cancelled
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pulling the plug on a successful product to curry favour in a politically correct environment is all too common today
The message matters: we are what we watch and listen to
Reading Time: 3 minutes We focus too much on things that really don’t matter. Life is not all about domination, money and having a particular body type
Television’s telling trend to female cops
Reading Time: 5 minutes On fictional program after fictional program, women dominate. Now universities reflect that trend in reality. Will the job market follow?