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The Handmaid’s Tale on CTV Drama. Pictured: Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne.

The Handmaid’s Tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVDq2bQlnU  June (Elisabeth Moss) leads a revolution in the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale When the television series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s cautionary dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale premiered in 2017, the United States had just entered an unprecedented era, with New York businessman and reality TV host Donald Trump at the…

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Duster on HBO Canada. Pictured: Jim (Josh Holloway) behind the wheel of his cherry-red Plymouth Duster.

Duster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih01iblDuHg  The latest from J.J. Abrams follows a 1970s getaway driver (Lost’s Josh Holloway) recruited by the FBI to take down a crime syndicate J.J. Abrams’ pedigree is well established, as creator of such TV series as Felicity, Lost, Alias and Fringe, and director of Star Wars and Star Trek movies. Not surprisingly, any new…

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Bad Thoughts on Netfilix. Pictured: Tom Segura.

Bad Thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrCciU8nD98  The Twilight Zone meets Black Mirror with a dark comedic twist in comedian Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone has influenced generations of television writers, and a new Netflix series mines similar (albeit sillier) territory. Created by standup comic Tom Segura, Bad Thoughts is described as “a six-episode…

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Nonnas on Netflix. Pictured (left to right): Gia (Susan Sarandon), Teresa (Talia Shire), Antonella (Brenda Vaccaro), and Roberta (Lorraine Bracco).

Nonnas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJxJd3FzDY  To honour his late mother, a Staten Island man opens an Italian restaurant where the food is prepared by four local grandmothers Tutti a tavola a mangiare! Celebrate Mother’s Day this year with a reservation at Nonnas. Vince Vaughn (Bad Monkey) stars in the heartwarming new Netflix film as a man whose grief sparks…

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MobLand on Paramount+. Pictured: Conrad and Maeve Harrington (Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, at centre) rely on family fixer Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) to clean up messes and sort out sticky situations.

MobLand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGgw7Ob5f4  Inside the gritty gangster hit from director Guy Ritchie Whether MobLand first came to its cast members as a script or a concept, what immediately drew them in was the calibre of talent associated with the series. A Guy Ritchie project based on proposed prequel to Ray Donovan, written by Black Mass screenwriter Jez…

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Miss Austen on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen.

Miss Austen on Masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-05wBhN6Vg  The sister of literary giant Jane Austen is the focus of this new Masterpiece series In the literary world, the name Austen typically invokes images of women in billowing attire atop a breezy English cliff or traversing a John Constable-worthy pastoral landscape with book in hand, perhaps unwilling to — but about to —…

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Étoile on Prime Video. Pictured (left to right): Jack McMillan (Luke Kirby), executive director of the Metropolitan Ballet Theater, Parisian ballet superstar Cheyenne (Lou de Laâge) and Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg), interim general director of l’Opera Francais and Le Ballet National.

Étoile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNVhn5wA0Y  The creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel take on the world of ballet in Étoile When an actor does a scene for Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the note they most often receive is, “Faster.” The rapid-fire, tongue-twisting dialogue that Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino have become known…

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Wear Whatever the F You Want on Prime Video. Pictured (left to right): Stacy London, Clinton Kelly, client.

Wear Whatever the F You Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-L3na4MtU  What Not to Wear duo Stacy London & Clinton Kelly reunite for a stylish new series Back in 2003, TLC debuted a series in which regular people nominated by friends and family to receive a much-needed makeover from stylists Clinton Kelly and Stacy London. Like Trading Spaces but with clothing instead of home renovations,…

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Number One on the Call Sheet on Apple TV+. Pictured: clockwise from top left: Viola Davis, Dwayne Johnson, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith, John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Tiffany Haddish.

Number One on the Call Sheet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAyTlC9rHCE  A two-part documentary event explores the ongoing evolution of Black performers as Hollywood headliners In the new docu-profile Number One on the Call Sheet, directors Reginald Hudlin and Shola Lynch celebrate the achievements of Black actors in Hollywood. Split into two films, by gender, trailblazers like Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington…

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Mid-Century Modern on Disney+. Pictured: Bunny (Nathan Lane), Jerry (Matt Bomer) and Arthur (Nathan Lee Graham) deal with a sudden tragedy. Together, they try to figure out how to move on.

Mid-Century Modern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m1JjIFXLuM  Nathan Lane, Nathan Lee Graham & Matt Bomer star in a bold new sitcom from the creators of Will & Grace It’s not every comedy that kicks off with a funeral, but Mid-Century Modern isn’t just any comedy. The latest from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan begins with old friends…

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