Category: Television

Most of us have said or done something at some point in our lives that we wish we could take back or at the very least do a bit differently. For Toronto city police detective Derek Spears, a brief professional misstep cost him his position as head of the Major Crimes Task Force. Although still...

Classic cars, real English ale, opera and cryptic crossword puzzles — probably not the interests of your typical police officer, but whoever said that Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse was typical? Created by writer Colin Dexter, this often sullen-tempered but still likeable and always dependable police officer was the bane of existence of many a...

There are some people who from childhood know what they want to be when they grow up, while others are what you might call “late bloomers” when it comes to deciding on a career path. Actor Brendan Penny freely admits to being one of the latter. “I didn’t really have any specific aspirations when I...

It was just three years ago that actor Jarod Joseph made his professional debut in the big screen adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. While his role might not have been an especially big one, the actual experience is one that he vividly remembers to this day. “I’d performed in acting class...

Any good businessperson will tell you that one of the keys to success is making sure to surround yourself with the most loyal, trusted and hardest working team of people possible. Such is the case in the British drama Mr. Selfridge, currently airing Sunday nights in the States on PBS’s MASTERPIECE Classic. When American entrepreneur...

For the lighter side of the Star Wars universe, LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out offers up an animated combination of characters from the original and prequel trilogies. Inspired by the popular video game series, The Empire Strikes Out is a 22-minute special that originally aired in September, 2012 on Cartoon Network. Just as...

During World War II every able-bodied person helped in the fight against the enemy. While the men served on the front lines, the women did whatever necessary back home to support the troops. The popular Canadian-made TV drama Bomb Girls follows the stories of four women working in a Canadian munitions factory while the conflict...

Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One arrives on Blu-ray, a six-disc set housed in a standard case with slipcover (just like the Next Generation Blu-rays so far), carrying a fair amount of baggage. To date, Enterprise is the final Trek television series. After seven seasons each of Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, the...

Back in 2009, Canadian-born actor Dylan Taylor followed in the footsteps of many real-life heroes and took one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind as Steve Wassenfelder, a theoretical physicist and member of an international team of astronauts who set out to explore Earth’s solar system in the short-lived sci-fi drama...