CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries is as beloved as it is extensive. As the show ramps up for its 18th season, it will also be gracing fans in Halifax with a special evening celebrating the show’s legacy. Murdoch Mysteries in Concert is being held at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Friday and Saturday Sep. 27 and […]
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Marthe Bernard wants to break the silence on mental health
[Image-1] Canadian actress Marthe Bernard, known for her role on Republic of Doyle, is speaking out about the stigma around mental illness. Her brother, Louis, died by suicide last year at age 28 after a long battle with mental illness. Bernard will be at a Queen’s University alumni event in Halifax tonight, as part of […]
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Yes, Game of Thrones will be on IMAX in Halifax
[Image-1] Public obsession with HBO’s Game of Thrones has swept across North America like a Dothraki horde. Anyone daring to speak out against our television king faces a gruesome beheading—or at least disapproving talk show audiences. So it’s not surprising to hear Cineplex confirm that Game of Thrones: The IMAX Experience will be screening at […]
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Dartmouth, come on down
[Image-1] Who’s the next contestant on The Price is Right? It is you, I, all of us. Daytime gameshow/cultural touchstone The Price is Right is bringing its live show to the Dartmouth Sportsplex on March 27. The “hit interactive stage show” recreates the experience of CBS’ 43-year-old price-guessing cavalcade. Contestants will get to play classic […]
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SAMCRO opens Halifax chapter
The north end’s newest gang of motorcycle outlaws is all digital, as Orpheus Interactive and Silverback Games gets ready to launch Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect. The interactive, episodic video game spins-off of the popular FX series, which is wrapping up this month after seven violent, hard-boiled seasons. It’s the first major release from Orpheus, […]
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Hall of fame: The Kids return to TV
From their early days on Toronto stages and then nationally, via a CBC show running from 1988-94, Kids in the Hall innovated and helped build Canadian comic tradition. The quintet returns to TV this Tuesday with a miniseries, Death Comes to Town, a murder-mystery send-up set in a small Ontario town. For the occasion, three […]
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Jason Priestley on the Fitz
Cruising down Main Street, New Minas, you might not notice anything unusual in the Duncan Underwood Inn watering hole, besides its amusing acronym. There’s actually no alcohol on the premises; the bar is one of the sets for a new TV series shooting in town. Next door is a former Kia dealership. “Fitzpatrick Motors,” reads […]
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Channelling Jonathan Torrens
“The challenge with making a show in Canada,” says TV’s Jonathan Torrens, “is that everything you shoot goes on the TV, so people are watching your learning curve week after week after week.” In conversation with one of the most recognizable faces in Canadian television about his new show, TV with TV’s Jonathan Torrens, the […]
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Cailin O’Neil’s solo flight
While the other kids were exploring the neighbourhood and catching their favourite shows on TV, Cailin O’Neil experienced the world on a bigger scale—and looked at it through a wider lens. “My mother worked for an airline growing up,” she says. “I loved travelling and making little films.” Her mom, who received employee-discounted fares as […]
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CBC dumbs down news
These are grim days for Halifax journalists. After The Daily News shut down last year, other media cut their reporting staffs to the bone. Yet, on Monday, August 31, CBC is launching a brand new, expanded 90-minute supper-hour show. Please don’t break out the champagne. Not if you care about local news. As I point […]
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Mad Men reborn
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) may have returned home at the end of season two, but judging from the opening scene of season three—a theatrical reenactment of Draper imagining his conception and birth—he’s no less troubled. And, as we learn when he and darling Sal (Bryan Batt) take a business trip together, Draper still can’t resist […]
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Cocktails to watch Mad Men by
Clicking around facebook recently, you may be wondering where the new 1960s-inspired caricature profile pictures are materializing. Fedoras, sheath dresses, slim suits, pocket squares and a martini or cocktail glass in hand—style aficionados are drooling, writers and ad execs are rushing after work to get home to watch it, and you shouldn’t miss it any […]