Heartland in the top 3 for Audience Choice Awards, keep voting!
The Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award is an award which gives the power to the people, allowing audiences everywhere to vote for their favourite Canadian series in television or digital media. The winner will be announced at the Canadian Screen Awards on CBC and CBC Gem on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 8 | 9 AT | 9:30 NT.
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I’m so proud of her!!!
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Sunday, April 16, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)
WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?:
THE WHOLE STORY WITH ANDERSON COOPER (CNN) 8:00pm
100 FOOT WAVE (HBO Canada) 8:00pm
ALEX VS AMERICA (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm
LEGUIZAMO DOES AMERICA (MSNBC) 10:00pm
CIAO HOUSE (Food Network Canada) 10:00pm
BARRY (HBO Canada) 10:00pm
WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?:
CHAOS ON THE FARM (TBD - Lifetime Canada)
VERY SCARY PEOPLE (TBD - HLN)
NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:
CRAVE TV
BARRY (Season 4, episodes 1-2)
THE 100 FOOT WAVE (Season 2, Episode 1)
NETFLIX CANADA
LOVE IS BLIND SEASON 4 REUNION SPECIAL
THE NUTTY BOY PART 2
IIHF WOMEN’S HOCKEY
(TSN/TSN4) 3:00pm: Bronze Medal Game
(TSN/TSN4) 7:00pm: Gold Medal Game
GRAND SLAM OF CURLING
(SN1) 1:00pm: Players' Championship - Women's Final
(SN/SN1) 5:00pm: Players' Championship - Men's Final
MLB BASEBALL
(SN Now) 1:30pm: Twins vs. Yankees
(SN) 1:30pm: Rays vs. Jays
(TSN2) 7:00pm: Rangers vs. Astros
MLS SOCCER
(TSN2) 2:00pm: CF Montreal vs. DC United
(TSN2) 4:30pm: LA Galaxy vs. LAFC
NBA BASKETBALL
(SN360) 3:00pm: Lakers vs. Grizzlies - Game #1
(SN360) 5:30pm: Heat vs. Bucks - Game #1
(TSN3/TSN5) 8:00pm: Clippers vs. Suns - Game #1
(TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 10:30pm: Timberwolves vs. Nuggets - Game #1
BEST IN MINIATURE (CBC) 7:00pm (SEASON FINALE): In the season finale, the top three artists have a yard sale before completing their homes and fighting for the $15,000 grand prize and the title of Best in Miniature.
SULLIVAN'S CROSSING (CTV) 7:00pm: Maggie makes a difficult decision after Sully lets his temper get the best of him.
FIRE MASTERS (Food Network Canada) 7:00pm: The Patridge family is ready to find out who has the fiercest flame game; they have a bone to pick with each other in the battle of the bones; it's time to turn up the heat with feasts as hot as the grills.
THE MASKED SINGER UK (Game TV) 7:30pm: Featuring Jacket Potato vs Fawn, Rubbish vs Pigeon, and Piece of Cake vs Rhino.
CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS (CBC) 8:00pm: With host Samantha Bee.
ESSEX COUNTY (CBC) 9:00pm: Anne visits her daughter at university, where old ambitions are reignited; Ken gets news that makes the future more settled; Lester realizes he is not alone in his grief; Lou searches for peace.
A TOWN CALLED MALICE (Showcase) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): The youngest son of a South London crime family must flee 1980s London for Spain.
RENOVATION RESORT (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm (SEASON FINALE): All four vacation rental cabins are completely transformed and the exhausted teams are surprised to discover that they have to compete in a rock the dock challenge for one last time; this is their final chance to impress Scott and Bryan.
THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: As time is running out, an exciting find in the swamp may have the fellowship rewriting the history of North America.
THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 11:00pm: Matty joins the fellowship as they look back on all the incredible clues and connections they've discovered over the last decade of the treasure hunt.
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Canadian Screen Awards
Tori has been nommed in the lead performer category for her role in Campfire Christmas and her movie A Chance for Christmas has been nommed in the Best TV Movie category.
The CSA are awarded to both film and television and the performer categories are not separated by gender
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Home Video: The 2024 Canadian Screen Award Nominees and Where to Buy, Rent, or Stream Them
It’s nearly time again for the Canadian Screen Awards, which will take place from May 28th to 31st, 2024. This year’s crop of nominees represents stellar Canadian filmmaking.
Last year saw some changes in the acting categories. Last year, they were made gender-neutral (and the number of nominees increased to eight). This year, they have been separated into awards for comedy and drama, still with…
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Congratulations Director of Photography, #AlexandreBussiere for his 2024 #CanadianScreenAwards Best Cinematography nomination for @patriciachica-blog-blog feature debut #MontrealGirls
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'Desi Standard Time Travel' Review
#DesiStandardTimeTravel Review: "It’s heartfelt and emotional and shows that life can change instantly. Aref and Pasta tell this story so beautifully that it will resonate with many, as it has a universal emotional connection to family dynamics & grief."
By: Amanda Guarragi
The one thing about growing up is that we don’t realize that our parents are getting older. We tend to shrug it off and not see that they are changing, just as we are. We see our parents as these immortal figures who will always be there for us. We can sometimes get carried away in arguments and even question why they treat us the way they do. But they still see their…
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Congratulations!!!
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Instant reactions to the 96th Academy Awards
A rough night for me. But there have been rougher ones before. I imagine most of my comments put me in a very lonely minority, as has been apparent the last few months.
But here goes:
For all intents and purposes, yours truly was on the Killers of the Flower Moon train. An extraordinary crime epic from Scorsese, with astounding craftsmanship and fantastic performance from Lily Gladstone. More than what I previously believed possible, a major studio production went out of its way to make sure that its Indigenous American representation on-screen was as genuine as it could possibly be (still imperfect, as the film acknowledges, but what an effort). And yet, KOTFM goes 0/10. I've never had a favored Best Picture nominee be shut out in such a way before. And I'm not surprised at all by it. It was clear that non-American and non-Canadian audiences didn't get the context to the film (a criticism I understand, given the screenplay) and, in other quarters, folks thought it was too long (I admittedly have a higher tolerance for longer movies) and others have said something akin to the fact that they are getting tired over "racial guilt" movies from America. I'm not in the mood to respond to the last one. I think it deserved better tonight. I particularly think Lily Gladstone deserved better tonight.
Stat upheld: two non-white actresses have never won on the same night in Oscar history. History, in and of itself, was always against Gladstone.
Oppenheimer winning? Fine, I guess. It was my #4 choice of the ten Best Picture nominees. I guess Christopher Nolan was overdue, but I have always been a Nolan skeptic. The film certainly is his most humanistic, and I appreciate that. As for the narrative organization and editing trickery? It mostly serves to take me out of the movie. And I don't think Nolan truly understands what thematic film music can accomplish for his movies. I think RDJ should have had much more competition all season long, but he did not. Most people are gonna say this is the return of the Academy's favorite subgenre... the Great Man Biopic. But in composition and structure, Oppenheimer (and even Maestro) resembles very little of the past Great Man Biopics. It'll be interesting to see how history treats this movie.
I disliked Poor Things. I didn't care for its sense of humor, didn't agree with many folks' opinions that it was a magnum opus of female empowerment. I thought it was incredibly male gaze-y and troublingly sanitized its scenes of sex work. Jerskin Fendrix's score was unlistenable outside the context of the film and distracting within it. But it has four Academy Awards and people love this movie, so my opinion can go to heck?
Well done Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her win as Supporting Actress for The Holdovers. I truly hope this opens up a lot more new opportunities for her going for! Wonderful speech.
And speaking of wonderful speeches, both documentary winners got me very emotional. The Last Repair Shop is on YouTube for American and Canadian viewers, and it's simply wonderful. Perhaps the happiest I was all night long! And then came Mstyslav Chernov's speech after winning for 20 Days in Mariupol. Chernov had, arguably, the speech of the night. And I agree with him. I, too, wish he never had to make his film and that he never won this Oscar. But he did his job to document what happened in Mariupol. And for that he (and the Ukrainians suffering and dying in their war versus Russia) deserves our plaudits and support.
Once more, Hayao Miyazaki cannot be bothered to show up to an awards ceremony. It's hilarious! I would have voted Robot Dreams, but The Boy and the Heron is not a winner to sniff at. Spider-Verse will have one more shot.... whenever the third movie comes out?
Good lord, they selected the worst possible winner in Animated Short with War Is Over!. There's an unwritten rule that the Academy, among the fifteen nominated shorts, must select one which will piss me the hell off. And for the second straight year in Animated Short, they have done exactly that, choosing something akin to a soft drink commercial.
Billie Eilish and Finneas are now the youngest and second-youngest ever to win two Oscars, after Luise Rainer (Best Actress for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld and 1937's The Good Earth). That feels very, very weird. In both cases of this record.
The "I'm Just Ken" performance? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Like Ken)??? Busby Berkeley choreography? What do the kids say? Inject that straight into my veins? It was wonderful.
And speaking of nods to cinema history, I'm so glad they led off the stunt performers tribute with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. :,)
And congratulations to Godzilla Minus One and its Best Visual Effects win! After seventy years, Godzilla is now an Oscar-winning franchise, and its win percentage is 100%! Simply wonderful!
I think the moral of the story is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has been gradually internationalizing over the last decade. And the results of that were very clear tonight. Does that mean I'm too provincial in my tastes? I don't know. But wins such as Emma Stone's, Anatomy of a Fall, The Boy and the Heron, and Godzilla are demonstrative of that.
I'm glad this season is over. I certainly hope that Killers of the Flower Moon will be looked upon more kindly by history and time, without the bells and whistles of awards campaigning and a fuller understanding of why it was made the way it was.
This month has been fun! But now it's time to see movies again without the lens of awards for a long, long while.
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Noahvember Day 2
Don't forget to vote in the poll at the end of this post.
We'll kick things off with some pics of Noah smokin' down that phony showbiz shine - the winner with 40% of the vote.
To go with the pics, here are two articles from 2010 with Noah leading up to the opening of Score at TIFF:
Score star Noah Reid can’t believe his good fortune
Score! A Hockey Musical opens TIFF tonight
Plus, Noah doing an interview about Score and TIFF:
Here are a couple of fics about David and Patrick and awards shows:
Because of You by @blackandwhiteandrose and The Suit by @steviestoospooky
And let's end with Noah's acceptance speech for his 2019 win as Best Supporting Actor at the Canadian Screen Awards. Link via Twitter.
Today's choices:
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Notes about The Diana Award
Hi Skippy & Friends-This year’s Legacy Award marks the start of The Diana Award’s 25th Anniversary year –20 exceptional young people, from across the world, were acknowledged. Taking place every two years, The Legacy Award is the most prestigious accolade a young person can receive for their social action or humanitarian work.
All the Legacy Award recipients – who come from the UK, USA, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, UAE, Oman, Romania, Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Australia - have had a huge impact on society. Independent judging panel was chaired by Baroness Doreen Lawrence- the title sponsor, Gilead Sciences Alex Kalomparis, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs.
My thoughts after taking a peek, is the award winners have been actually WORKING hard in the trenches of their societies to help very impoverished woman, children and families. They are doing serious heavy lifting, unlike the ones who strut on stages spouting word salad, wearing designer outfits (trying to at least) acting all so regal and intelligent. She would not last one hour with any of these winners IMHO. Check out The Diana Award site and read all about them-they are the ones to know about!
By the way, we watched the latest Canadian/Dev Patel produced award winning documentary film called “To Kill a Tiger” which is incredible! It is the real-life story, filmed as it happened, (without them there covering this families awful legal battle it would not have made international news) fighting for justice for the gang rape of their 13-year-old daughter-the first time EVER in India a father has demanded a judgement??! It is riveting and you will be amazed at how fast it engages you…we were shouting at the screen from the get-go, at the insanity of what they had to deal with! The community, the legal system, the brutal beliefs, all make real life drama that had us on the edge of our “sofa” rooting for this very loving, intelligent father, who said this would be like trying to kill a tiger.
So, I hope this type of work by young, bright people will begin to help transform archaic behavior and reduce human suffering. I think the Joker Prince showing up on the screen as if they were at a local bar/pub, calling them “guys” sounding terribly sophomoric…was a downer to the importance of their awards. The real prince had left the building. Over and out for now. Pilgrim
Thank you dear Pilgrim! Great post!❤️
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Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit TV sitcom Friends, has died at 54, according to reports.
Perry drowned at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, sources including a representative for the actor and law enforcement told NBC News. Other US outlets also reported Perry had died.
After small roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dream On, Perry scored a role in NBC sitcom Friends in 1994. The comedy, about six friends living in New York City, quickly became a phenomenon, winning multiple Emmys and scoring record ratings.
Perry went on to play the sarcastic and neurotic Chandler in 10 seasons with the 2004 finale reaching over 52 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.
“People come up to me every day and say, ‘Hey Chandler!’ I don’t respond to it,” he said in a 2014 interview. “If somebody says, ‘Hi Matthew, I love your work’, that’s one thing. But if somebody goes ‘Yo, Chandler’, I don’t like that. I’m tired of it. I’m not Chandler.”
Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1969 to an American father and a Canadian mother, who would later move her son to Ottawa to work as a press aide to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. In his bestselling 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recalled acting up after his father abandoned his family to chase his own dreams of becoming an actor – including bullying a young Justin Trudeau. “I decided to end my argument with him when he was put in charge of an entire army,” he wrote.
At 15 Perry moved to Hollywood, with the hope of reconnecting with his father. It was there he began to enjoy acting, and was eventually spotted at a diner, “charming a bunch of young women”, by director William Richert, who left a note asking him to be in his next movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, alongside River Phoenix.
Perry was 24 when he started playing Chandler and was relatively unknown, just like his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. In a 2019 interview, Friends creator David Crane said Chandler was the most difficult character to cast; actors Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer and Jon Favreau were also considered for the role.
“Marta [Kauffman, co-creator] and I were thinking Chandler is just poorly written,” added Crane. “Then Matthew came in and you went, ‘Oh, well, there you go. Done. Done. That’s the guy.’”
Perry was nominated for an Emmy award five times, including once for his Friends role and twice for his role as lawyer Joe Quincy on The West Wing.
During his tenure on Friends, Perry starred in films including Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek, Three to Tango with Neve Campbell and The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis. He also played small roles in Ally McBeal and Scrubs.
In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he confessed: “I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.”
Perry’s personal life was afflicted by addiction, starting in 1997 when he became addicted to pain medication after a jetski accident. He later claimed to not remember three years of his time on Friends and to spending over $9m on his fight to stay sober.
“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people – and that’s why I can’t watch the show, because I was brutally thin,” he said. Perry later admitted he had suffered severe anxiety “every night” while filming the show and felt nothing when the show ended.
Once Friends ended in 2004, Perry’s next small-screen lead was in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was cancelled after one season. In 2009 he starred in hit comedy 17 Again alongside Zac Efron, and later guest-starred on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
Perry also led one season sitcom Go On and a remake of The Odd Couple which lasted for three seasons. In 2016 he wrote and starred in play The End of Longing which opened in the West End and later transferred to Broadway.
In 2019, he was put in a two-week coma when his colon exploded due to opiate abuse; he had 14 surgeries due to his opiate abuse. “At this point in my life, the words of gratitude pour out of me because I should be dead, and yet somehow I am not,” he wrote in last year’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was a hit with readers and critics. The Guardian’s Barbara Ellen called the memoir “harrowing and revealing about the juncture where extreme compound addiction collides with mega-celebrity”.
“You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that,” Perry wrote.
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