John Doyle: Television

Tired, totally tedious and irritating TV

A list of shows that should just go away

Lynn Crosbie: Pop Rocks

The ugly truth about Betty’s braces and Super Bowl ads

A great show reinvented camp and tele-aesthetics

John Doyle: Television

Lots on TV this weekend beyond Super Bowl

Forget the hype about Sunday’s game. Instead, catch an Olympics primer, Sid the Kid or look for Osama bin Laden.

Martin Short – as one seriously nasty piece of work

A TV role that draws on the dark side of human nature is not really a reach for the comic actor, whose first career was social work

John Doyle: Television

Unfair to children? Don’t get me started

Kids these days: the horror, the horror

John Doyle: Television

In the TV game: Yanks 13, Brits 0

It seems that certain British telly scribes find American TV better than their own

John Doyle: Television

Found: Lost's meaning

Weird, intelligent, complicated and allegorical. And sometimes irritatingly obscure

John Doyle: Television

A bling-heavy awards show, the stuff of love and legal thrills

Weekend viewing highlights: Grammy awards, Love Letters and Damages

Andrew Ryan: Television

Grump-less Gordon peels away problems at the Hot Potato

Like all great grumps, Gordon Ramsay has a big heart beneath the bluster

John Doyle: Television

CBC gets all hepped up about getting high

Which is not to say that marijuana isn’t a serious, sobering issue

John Doyle: Television

Out of the cold: Mostly good TV is coming our way

Here’s a shortlist (of a very long list) of shows to get us through these dreary months

John Doyle: Television

Jay Leno, the man other comics love to hate

He’s a shark, they know. Not the nice guy that the public sees. It’s the shark they really hate.

John Doyle: Television

Mindless piffle? Hardly. TV makes sense of the world

The folks who look down their noses at the tube have it all wrong

Television

Caprica takes sharp-eyed Battlestar fans to the beginning

Battlestar Galactica is a hard act to follow. Frakking impossible, if you ask fans of the show.

Warren Clements: DVDs

Charlie, Linus and Lucy aim for the high C's

Its child singers can be a bit shrill, but this DVD of the popular musical, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, is not without its charms

Television

Lights! Camera! Learn!

A conversation between a new filmmaker and his mentor

Conan O'Brien scores $45-million Tonight show exit

Talk show host reaches deal with NBC after late-night fracas; O'Brien to get $33-million and rest to go to staff severance

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