https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSpvGC0_XLM Author Patricia Cornwell and showrunner Liz Sarnoff discuss finally bringing the “quiet storm” that is forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta to the screen The fact that forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, lead character in Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling book series, didn’t make it to film or TV before now was never for lack of trying. “The Scarpetta…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMfMzNAJaM Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner stars in explosive new crime thriller Steal Crime novelist S.A. Nikias says he could never plan a heist in real life, but in Steal, the new crime drama starring Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner, Nikias imagines the perfect crime based on his own time working in an…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-9rY8Koirw One of the surprising things about this show is its almost irreverent sense of humour. That’s not a quality we’ve come to expect from faith-based programming, which tends to be quite earnest. Would you say that irreverence opens up a new way to engage with an audience, and a novel way of tackling a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WxofgjVpXg&t=1s The cast of this satirical superhero thriller dig into the real-world implications of the show’s demented hijinks Back in 2019, a bloody, silly and, alas, timely superhero satire called The Boys unexpectedly became one of Prime Video’s brand-defining series. Based on the graphic novels by Garth Ennis, the series took a fresh, fiendishly clever…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWi5_hU_-o Outer Banks creator Jonas Pate assembles a group of real-life musicians for his new drama about a teenage rock band For the third season of the Netflix series Outer Banks, creator Jonas Pate put out a casting call for young musicians to play a gig on the popular YA show. Of the more than…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGdid_6V5s Robin Wright stars as an affluent woman whose suspicions about her son’s new girlfriend (Olivia Cooke) lead her to cross a shocking line As the old axiom goes, mother knows best. But does she really? That question is at the heart of The Girlfriend, a gripping psychological thriller based on the debut novel from…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTnGzgL720 AI looms large in the fourth and final season of quirky sci-fi comedy Upload Death comes for us all, but in the near future world of Upload, there are more choices of afterlife than you would expect as the fourth and final season debuts this week. Robbie Amell returns as Nathan Brown, who has…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg1Scuq2hI4 Canadian pop-punk icons Simple Plan reflect on 25 tumultuous, chart-topping years together in a new documentary If you were a teen in the early aughts, odds are Simple Plan was part of your playlist with tunes like “Perfect” and “I’m Just a Kid.” Back in 2002, the rise to fame for the Quebec pop-punk…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBmyiyZba3s Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim leads this six-part thriller about a former spy on the run from an elite assassin — who just happens to be his very own daughter When it comes to storytelling, as Canadian Marshall McLuhan put it, “The medium is the message.” Films and TV shows are able to, if not…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMLuX42pCk The bestselling mystery novels come to life in twist-filled drama We Were Liars Cadence Sinclair Eastman has been coming to her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts since the summer she was born. Every year, she reunites with her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and their childhood friend Gat, and the tightknit group…