What to Watch This Week: March 23 to 29

From the JUNO Awards to a double-sized documentary about comedy legend Steve Martin, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week 1. The 2024 JUNO Awards – Sunday, March 24, CBC Courtesy of CBC We feel pretty confident in saying that the best Canadian musical performance of the past year was already delivered…

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Kate Winslet: The Regime

Did you draw on any actual tyrants in crafting Chancellor Elena Vernham? I wish I could tell you I was inspired by any real figures, but I wasn’t. When you are taking on a character who is totally invented, from a purely imagined world, it did give me real creative licence to just dig…

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The epic love story of two Walking Dead favourites drives harrowing new spinoff The Ones Who Live After being separated for almost a decade, two soulmates are reunited in the never-ending zombie apocalypse. But, if love truly conquers all, is that not the end of the story? In the case of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln)…

Queens

Females rule in National Geographic’s fierce new nature docuseries Queens When award-winning documentary producer Vanessa Berlowitz pitched a standalone doc about matriarchs in the animal kingdom to National Geographic, even she was unsure about the originality of her own idea. “The amazing senior exec there, who also happens to be a female, said, ‘This is…

The Invisible Shield

New PBS series The Invisible Shield examines how public health makes modern life possible Inspired by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rooted in the history of healthcare systems worldwide, PBS’s new documentary series, The Invisible Shield, explores the intricacies of public safety and global health. For the first time, as if by magic,…

What to Watch This Week: March 16 to 22

From a new comedy from the producers of Trailer Park Boys to an animated X-Men revival, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week 1. In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon – Sunday, March 17, Crave | Series Premiere Courtesy of CraveFrom his iconic Simon & Garfunkel hits to a…

Jason Priestley: Wild Cards

Is it basically an actor’s dream, getting to play this quirky con man — who is lovable but also has a sense of danger to him? [Laughs] Yeah, I’m kind of a bad guy. Definitely. I think there were a lot of opportunities for comedy, and to bring joy to people. So, that was…

Palm Royale

Kristen Wiig stars as a Palm Beach social climber in this star-studded ’60s dramedy Set in sunny, colourful late-1960s Palm Beach, Palm Royale is an underdog story about social climber Maxine Simmons, played by Kristen Wiig, trying to break into Palm Beach high society by joining the posh Palm Royale country club. And what a…

Alice & Jack on Masterpiece

A long-lasting and complex romance unfolds in Alice & Jack PBS’s Masterpiece showcase has brought viewers numerous love stories over the decades, but it’s safe to say they haven’t seen anything like Alice & Jack. Starring Domhnall Gleeson (Run) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), the six-episode series created by Mad About You and Mad Men…

Apples Never Fall

Annette Bening stars in this screen adaptation of Apples Never Fall, a gripping mystery from the author of Big Little Lies It all starts with the seemingly perfect family: Revered tennis coaches Joy and Stan Delaney (Annette Bening and Sam Neill), a husband and wife who run a famed tennis academy in West Palm Beach,…

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