Aisha Tyler on Archer: Dreamland, a stylish noir for Season 8
The day was as gloomy as a $5 call girl with a rip in her $10 hose. A group of mourners in a cemetery, silent and stone-faced, rain cold and hard against the sky. Arthur Henry Woodhouse, the gravestone...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Save Me, Snatch, American Playboy streaming online
Life can change in an instant — with a phone call, a misjudgment of consequence, a tragic accident involving cutlery. It’s in those moments that the new Canadian web series Save Me resides. Created,...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Big Little Lies could return, Walking Dead ratings
HBO’s Big Little Lies closed out its inaugural run with 2.5 million U.S. viewers on Sunday night — the most the show has ever drawn, according to Deadline. That’s not factoring in all the DVR,...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for March 20-26
Canadian TV viewers were in survival mode a couple weeks ago, pushing CBS’s Survivor and ABC’s Designated Survivor into the top two spots in the ratings. Survivor’s March 22 episode, The Tables Have...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Best quotes from The Mindy Project
Oh, Mindy. Well, you came and you gave without taking. But Hulu’s sending you away … oh, Mindy. The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling’s sparkling take on the rom-com genre, will fade to black after its sixth...
View ArticleSpeaking the language of reconciliation
“I was angry at my grandparents for a long time.” Onowa McIvor grew up in northern Saskatchewan, where her grandparents feared prejudice against indigenous peoples and did everything they could to bury...
View ArticleScience suffering from an image problem
The data was collected, the numbers crunched and the results are in: science needs a rebrand. A recent Pew Research Centre poll found that while the vast majority of people—79 per cent—believe in the...
View ArticlePop Forecast for April 10: The Fate of the Furious, Guerilla and more
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan wrote, but these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need. Here is...
View ArticlePop Forecast for April 17: Free Fire; Unforgettable and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Dylan said, but these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
View Article6 bands that survived without their lead singer
The Barenaked Ladies new album, Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions, is the fourth album the band has released since the departure of co-founder Steven Page in 2009. That got us...
View ArticleHockey Wives returns for third season on W Network
Pat St. Germain Quebecois TV star Maripier Morin is the series’ franchise player, but all six women on W Network’s latest Hockey Wives roster are MVPs of the home game. Four rookies join Morin and...
View ArticleMeet the women of Hockey Wives Season 3
Pat St. Germain • Emilie Blum (married to defenceman Jonathan Blum, formerly of the Nashville Predators and Minnesota Wild and currently playing with Russian KHL team Vladivostok Admiral): Based in...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Dutch TV show asks if women are fat or pregnant
What’s the most offensive reality show you remember airing on TV? Is it Joe Millionaire, with 20 ladies angling to marry supposed rich guy Evan Marriott, who’s really a construction worker? Or is it...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for March 27-April 2
It’s always nice to see a fan-favourite show go out on a high note, and such was the case for Bones a couple of weeks ago. The forensics drama starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz aired its very...
View ArticleTelly With Melly for April 15: Doctor Who, SNL
Buenas Tardis, Doctor Who fans! The time-travelling British sci-fi series returns for its 10th season tonight on Space. This will be Peter Capaldi’s final run as the Doctor, as well as the final season...
View ArticleTelly With Melly for April 17: Stephen Colbert gets Trump bump
Donald Trump may have promised to bring back coal during his campaign, but so far the U.S. president has instead succeeded in bringing back Colbert. For the past 10 weeks, late-night host Stephen...
View ArticleTelly With Melly for April 18: Pretty Little Liars debuts Season 7B
You guys, it’s finally here. Like, cancel-your-plans-and-get-yourself-incommunicado here. The first new Pretty Little Liars episode in almost eight months airs Tuesday, and the second half of season 7...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Once Upon a Time wedding, Big Ticket Concert returns
Once Upon a Time will soon lead to a happily-ever-after for two of the show’s main characters. At the end of this past Sunday’s episode, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) rescued Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) from...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: The Rock debuts Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History
When The Rock tells you to listen to something, you listen. On pain of dangerously cocked eyebrow, you listen. In the case of his new CNN show, Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History, The Rock wants...
View ArticleTelly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for April 3-9
Who knew that Magnum, P.I. and a New Kid on the Block could make television magic together? But such is the case with Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg and their CBS/CTV police drama Blue Bloods. The...
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