Great insights here, particularly on media absorption channels substack.com/home/post/p-...

I decided to subscribe to the FT Weekend in print to replace my Sunday NYT. First copy comes tomorrow; v excited. (I still subscribe digitally to the Times.) This is your official update on my newspaper subs from outside Canada.

Talked to Bill Lawrence about Shrinking and why, though his favourite TV comedy is Veep, he makes shows about nice guys. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

NBC caught up - came back from an ad and jumped in the middle of this very long and not very interesting speech by [TKTK Italian guy].

NBC broadcast of Olympics opening ceremony is now four minutes or so between the CBC one.

Crave can't get everything right, I suppose. The Borderline - the new Crave Original crime drama getting a post-Super Bowl push on CTV is not up to the new standard we expect from the Bell Media streamer. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

I share your complaints about the CBC ads during the opening ceremony earlier and have forwarded them to the appropriate authorities.

Live blogging the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies with my @theglobeandmail.com colleagues over here: www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olymp...

Trump Defends Racist Video As Racist

From 2011. Epstein: they sent conrad back to jail for another 7 months Gmax: You're kidding...how come? Why? Where did they send him? Epstein: back to the same shithole as a non us citizen , no camp. ... Gmax: That is terrible..how come Epstein: he is pompous www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Based on the comments on my Don't Watch the Super Bowl column, it seems a lot of Canadians are, indeed, planning to skip it this year because... America. Viewership was down 15% year-over-year in Canada for the 2025 edition compared to up 3% in the US. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Well, I see why a play in which nothing is fair or honourable in love/lechery or war and the audience is wished venereal disease at the epilogue is not performed often. Many thanks to Shakespeare Bash’d for showing us Troilus and Cressida on its feet. Three more shows. Sold out but try at the door.

YOU, ALWAYS isn't without its quirks. But man, I wept — such gorgeous performances from Repo-Martell and Beaty, and I think it might be my new favourite Erin Shields play. Critic's Pick review @theglobeandmail.com: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

Wrong Theatre Centre tagged in all the excitement.

My first-ever live-in-person production of Troilus and Cressida. I’m pumped as heck. Shakespeare Bash’d at @theatrecentre.bsky.social

Watching France and Spain go after X: The Everything App, and it’s great and it’s a thing that was obviously coming. Every revolutionary communication tech comes into existence, it takes off and then people misuse it and when the people who grew up with it enter politics they understand to legislate

Interesting to see The Christine Jessop Story on Netflix Canada with its Crave Original branding, less than six months after the true crime docuseries premiered on Crave. Currently #3 in Canada on the 'flix.

Just announced: SNL UK’s Canadian home will be on Crave.

We got Games. @theglobeandmail.com app just updated with three daily crosswords, proper Canadian spellings and clues.

IMO this is not actually that hot of a take. Small-c.

I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...

Deeply disturbing stuff... press conference currently taking place. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Had some fun with this week’s What to Watch column. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Saw a student/youth theatre (I can’t recall: it was £2.50 to see a play in London) version of Merchant of Venice that used this at the end, which I think is still the best attempt to make that play “work” I’ve seen.

Hand D knew a thing or two.

It's great when a headline editor gets to have a bit of fun in their day.

"Netflix Canada today announced an expanded partnership with comedian, actor and screenwriter, Mae Martin. As part of the new first look deal Martin will create and develop series projects and they will also star in a new stand-up special for Netflix."

Canadians could channel their feelings about what's going on at the Post not into Bluesky posts but writing their MPs about acting on foreign ownership, telling them to get off X and hold press conferences when they have something to say (and be questioned after), keep their promises on the CBC...

I understand Americans are upset about the Washington Post - but their new smaller newsroom will have about the same number of editorial as all of Postmedia's 130 print and digital news titles combination. Canadians slept through this consolidation, foreign ownership, gutting.

There's a petition to the House of Commons to introduce stricter rules to prevent foreign entities from holding controlling interests in Canadian media. Long overdue for govt to act & require Postmedia to have Canadian ownership and/or sell off parts to local buyers www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

What a terrible situation and no longer any trustee to go to, no comment from the Ministry of Education despite TDSB being under supervision. Province loves to meddle but I don't see improvement in the places where it sticks its fingers. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Jon Hamm Shoresy fan. (It’s on Hulu in the States, Jon!) www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

Finding Her Edge grew in popularity in its second week on Netflix: #3 in TV globally; 6.7m views; top ten show in 81 countries. Season two just announced. Incidentally, French Canadian dub rights are with Radio-Canada's ICI TOU.TV. It's called Rêve de glace there.

Could the Ontario NDP and Ontario Liberal Party not just partner up already - either get into talks to merge, or agree to not run against each other next election?

MP Nate Eskine-Smith says he's seeking the Ontario Liberal Party’s nomination to run in a Scarborough Southwest by-election provincially - after the Ontario NDP MPP Doly Begum resigned from party and the legislature to run for the federal Liberals there to replace Bill Blair in a by-election.

👏 Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock write in support of NDP MP Jenny Kwan's private members bill The End the Loopholes Act, "to ensure that weapons, components and explosives exported to the US receive the same level of oversight as those sent anywhere else." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Paris, je t'aime... came out 20 years ago. How time passes.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

What do Wild Cards and Heated Rivalry have in common? Montreal Anglo creators. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

This is the “first seasons now streaming in Prime Video” bump in the US for Wild Cards no? deadline.com/2026/01/wild...

Mark Critch's Trump visited Greenland on last week's episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes... I particularly enjoyed his interactions with the mayor of Nuuk. www.tiktok.com/@thishourhas...

Lovely tribute to O’Hara from Johanna Schneller. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Deeply curious what the Heated Rivalry of 1926 was...

1975. While Second City cast mates Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner went to NYC to do SNL, the young "Cathy" O'Hara became a regular on the bi-monthly Wayne and Shuster specials on CBC. Shuster was the father of Rosie Shuster and father-in-law of Lorne Michaels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTio...

Tributes pouring in for Catherine O'Hara from Canada and US and worldwide. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Pressure works. On to the next fight now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Catherine O'Hara. Let's rename a street, put up a statue, get her face on a Canadian bill... What a great. What a career. In mourning.

This is genuinely great!

My column observing this viral moment on yesterday: Hudson Williams, Mark Carney - and Heated Rivalry helping save the Online Streaming Act? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...