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Pop Forecast for Dec. 26: Sing, Air Farce New Year’s Eve and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Carnival shakes up voyages in 2018
I’m a huge fan of Carnival Cruise Line, which lately has been going full-tilt in the good news department. First, the line committed to substantially expanding its Long Beach, California cruise...
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Pop Forecast for Jan. 3: Underworld: Blood Wars, Emerald City and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop-culture offerings is just what we need....
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Telly With Melly: What’s streaming online this week
Here’s a rundown of new shows online this week (Jan. 11-17). A Series of Unfortunate Events Netflix is hoping A Series of Unfortunate Events turns into a series of fortunate success. The online...
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Telly With Melly: One Day at a Time, Star streaming online
Here’s a rundown of what’s new online from Jan. 4-10: One Day at a Time A TV remake is a TV remake is a TV remake, right? Wrong. If it’s based on a classic Norman Lear show, expectations are high....
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Telly With Melly: TV briefs on Degrassi: Next Class, The Magic Schoolbus and...
Shakeup could rock Degrassi When it comes to angsty teen shows, ain’t no angst like Degrassi angst. And the upcoming season of the franchise’s latest incarnation is no different. Last we saw on...
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New digital Ocean Medallion device to debut with Princess Cruises
Carnival Corporation & plc, along with Princess Cruises, took a huge digital leap forward today at the CES conference in Las Vegas, introducing a quarter-sized, 1.8-ounce disc known as the Ocean...
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2017 midseason TV premieres pack in comedy, drama
The reports of Peak TV’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Back in 2015, FX president John Landgraf coined the term “Peak TV,” suggesting we’d seen as big an influx of scripted TV shows as we ever...
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Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for Dec. 19-25
You might think there’s nothing particularly festive about The Big Bang Theory or news broadcasts, but leading up to Christmas, that’s what many Canadians were watching. Big Bang sat pretty in three of...
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Telly With Melly: Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds HBO doc debuts
After 2016 closed out with the entertainment industry’s equivalent of a boot to the belly — both Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, dying within a day of each other — HBO announced it would...
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Telly With Melly: Golden Globes, Sister Wives and more
The annual season of celebrities presenting awards to other celebrities while revelling in the awesomeness of their celebrity has begun. Tonight you can tune in to the Golden Globes, catch new episodes...
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Pop Forecast for Jan. 9: Monster Trucks, The Young Pope and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop-culture offerings is just what we need....
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A New Year’s resolution for all Canadians
Canada’s poet laureate Gord Downie inspired us to think about reconciliation and resolutions. And it’s the indigenous leaders we’ve spoken to who have given us the tools and advice we need to advance...
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Telly With Melly: The Flash, Supergirl, 22 Minutes and more
22 Minutes returns tonight The countdown to new episodes of This Hour Has 22 Minutes is up. The CBC comedy series airs a one-hour special tonight featuring guest stars from three of the national...
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This is Us pokes fun at Canada, stirs controversy
Oh, Canada; forever a punchline on American television. From the constant prodding of Cobie Smulders’ character on How I Met Your Mother to the parents of South Park blaming us, viewers often seem to...
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CBC’s Pure banks on unique premise, Mennonite mob
When it comes to successful television shows, sometimes you just have to go for the WTF effect. Breaking Bad: A high-school chemistry teacher learns he has cancer, and decides to make meth to pay for...
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Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1
Is it any surprise that more Canadians watched the World Junior Hockey Championship during boxing week than those who watched the top New Year’s Eve countdown? While the U.S. eventually edged us out on...
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Pop forecast for Jan. 16: Return of Xander Cage, Austra and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop-culture offerings is just what we need....
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Telly With Melly: This is Us, Better Call Saul, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
This is Us celebrates triplets’ birth day The stars of This is Us are just like us — they get emotional over the breakout NBC hit, too. “They’re shooting an episode right now, and I read the script...
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Toys have power to evoke compassion
There could be more at stake in the toy aisle than we realize. The 2016 holiday rush capped off a record year of approximately $26 billion in toy sales in the United States alone. (That’s a lot of...
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