Television Shows
Written on 14 Dec, 2017 at 18:51 in
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Michael Taube Tanick Bisson (center) stars in the CBC's Murdoch Mysteries, including their Christmas specials.
Ah, Christmas! That wonderful time of year when we trim trees, put up wreaths and lights, sing carols, and eat plenty of delicious turkey, ham, stuffing and plum pudding. My wife, son, and I might even get a gift or two or (ahem) three from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2017 at 15:59 in
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Amusements Rick McGinnis
There’s a scene at the beginning of the season finale of The Young Pope that sums up this controversial HBO series as much as any of a dozen or so startling scenes in the previous nine hours. The titular pontiff, played by Jude Law, has just been told by his director of publicity that he is scheduled to lead a group of schoolchildren on a tour of ... (Continue reading)
How Duck Dynasty became a television and cultural sensation
After years of celebrating little-watched cable television shows like The Sopranos (about the mafia and laced with profanity) and Breaking Bad (about a drug dealer and laced with profanity), the North American entertainment media took notice of the ratings success of Duck Dynasty, which attracts millions more viewers. In the February 2013 season three premier, it attracted 8.6 million viewers, the most watched show in A&E history. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Oct, 2013 at 13:57 in
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Rick McGinnis I didn’t watch television for nearly 20 years, roughly from when Knight Rider hit the air to when the first season of The Sopranos debuted. Only a few years after that I found myself – quite against my will – writing a daily TV column for a national newspaper, but as the one-time child who grew up with That Girl and Petticoat Junction in syndication and All In The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Mar, 2013 at 11:28 in
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Rick McGinnis Lena Duham
It’s a truism that every generation believes that the ones immediately following it will preside over the dismantling of every social, cultural and economic virtue that they took for granted, a rite of passage for senior generations that begins roughly when they realize that they’ve slipped out of the green vale of youth. There’s no objective way of proving this imminent decline, but since popular culture began to edge ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Mar, 2013 at 9:25 in
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Paul Tuns Mark Burnett is one of the biggest names in television, creating and producing such reality television hits as Survivor, Celebrity Apprentice, Shark Tank, and The Voice. His next project, which begins airing on the History Channel on March 3, is The Bible Series, a ten-part, five-week presentation of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations.
Burnett and wife Roma Downey, who is also a co-producer, were recently at Christian broadcaster CTS in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2012 at 9:38 in
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Review Michael Taube The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, TV Series: 13 Episodes, 1985-1993. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, distributed by Warner Bros (VHS and DVD, $18.70 each for select DVDs).
Many animation companies have produced movies, TV specials and direct-to-video releases of Bible stories for children. Some well-known series include Superbook, Veggie Tales, and Animated Stories from the Bible. There have also been one-shot specials created by relatively unknown groups that always seem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 6:49 in
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Amusements Rick McGinnis Among most men of my acquaintance – and this probably says more about my friends than anything else – the most eagerly anticipated TV series this year is HBO’s The Pacific, which will started airing last month (after this column was submitted). It’s a companion piece to the critically-lauded Band of Brothers, the 2001 miniseries that followed a group of paratroopers from basic training to the end of World War Two, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Nov, 2009 at 5:58 in
Columnist, Rick McGinnis, Television Shows | Author:
Rick McGinnis There are two rituals at the onset of every fall television season; in the first, someone looks over the crop of failed shows from the last season and announces some venerable genre – the three-camera sitcom, the police procedural – as being creatively dead, followed by the unexpected success of a show that singlehandedly revives it. The cycle’s tedious regularity is just one of the reasons why some of us, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2007 at 11:02 in
Pro-Life, Television Shows | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant editor An international television personality brought an inspiring message of hope to the Canadian pro-life movement when he made an appearance in Brampton, Ont. Oct. 17.
Raymond Arroyo is an award-winning journalist seen in more than 100 million homes weekly around the globe as host and creator of the Eternal Word Television Network’s The World Over Liveprogram. He frequently analyzes life issues, has interviewed some of the leading figures of our time, including Pope Benedict XVI, and is a best-selling author through ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Nov, 2006 at 14:20 in
Book Review, Religion, Television Shows | Author:
Mark Wegierski
The Interim
The Truth Is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction by Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth (Brazos Press, $23.99 pb, 272 pages)
Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth are both well-respected American academics and committed Christians. Readers should not be put off by the 50s “flying saucer” image on the cover. ... (Continue reading)
Canada
Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduces Bill C-38, the government’s legislation to redefine marriage to include homosexual couples. International Trade Minister Jim Peterson co-sponsors the bill ... Conservative leader Stephen Harper puts forth a motion to amend C-38 to maintain the legal definition of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2005 at 15:26 in
Abortion, Pro-Life, Television Shows | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
The Bell Globemedia conglomerate took another kick at pro-life, pro-family Canadians recently with the airing of a made-for-TV movie lionizing Canada's most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler.
Broadcast by its CTV television component on Jan. 5, Choice purported to recount the "tumultuous ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Sep, 2004 at 8:59 in
Abortion, Television Shows | Author:
Dina Kok
Controversy surrounded a decision by Viacom-owned cable channel N when it refused to air two episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation because of its plot about teen preganancy and abortion.
The two-part show entitled Accidents Will Happen, revolved around Manny, a 14-year-old character played by Cassie Steele, as she finds out that she is preganant and is faced with the options of carrying the baby to full term ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 May, 2004 at 9:39 in
Columnist, Pro-Life, Television Shows | Author:
Ted Gerk
Western View
In 2002, the head of the Pro-Choice Action Network, Joyce Arthur, sent a presentation to the head of the Charities Directorate at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, attacking the Pro-Life Society of B.C. Among the many charges directed to B.C. Pro-Life were false statements in tax returns, unethical fundraising and the list went on. To say that Joyce doesn't like the pro-life movement is an understatement.
Her recent essay on all ... (Continue reading)