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The final production of The Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Winter Festival was Living in Exile. The production hit roadblock after roadblock on its way to the stage, including an actor’s major injury, a weeklong postponement and the death of the playwright, Jon Lipsky. But when I finally got to see the show last Sunday, it was […]

Baseball’s Back!
 

The baseball season is officially under way, you can just feel the world getting a little bit brighter (except for the snow, that’s just unacceptable). In preparation for tonight’s game here’s a video featuring Toronto’s starting roster. Ricky, Aaron, Travis, JP, Jose and all the boys- welcome back!

An Open Letter to the Gossip Girl Writers

Dear Writers, You’ve got a lot going for you. The Gossip characters a really interesting lot. Blair and Chuck, especially, are some of the best out there for complexity and comic potential in one. Kristen Bell brings a perfectly dry sensibility to those voice overs of hers and the scale of the scenarios open to […]

NBC Thursday’s Best Jokes This Week

“I’m not jealous”- Troy is jealous of Jeff’s dinner with his best friend Abed. (Community)   Shirley as Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction. (Community)   “I want you take this money and buy a book, it’s called ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’!”- Vance tries to help out a stripper at his bachelor party. […]

The Ultimate TV Icon Matchup

30 Rock this week.   Aaron Sorkin and Tina Fey (Liz Lemon) sit at a conference table waiting for interview with Nick Lachey to work on the NBC reality competition show The Sing Off.   Sorkin: You here for the Sing Off gig? Fey: Yeah, do I know you? Sorkin: You know my work. Walk […]

Being Erica in Season Three
 

I’ve long loved CBC’s most successful drama. When it first premiered 3 seasons ago I was fond of its proud Toronto setting and unabashed Canadian sweetness. It was easily one of the best things ever to come out of Canada’s small TV market. But as I caught up on the most recent season (which aired […]

Obsessions of Right Now
 

Josh Zuckerman on 90210 Naomi, hilariously, may not have been able to reconcile having a crush on sweet science nerd Max right away, but I’ve loved the actor who plays him since he showed up on The West Wing as the memorable know-it-all kid who made Josh’s “list” in the brilliant post 9/11 episode “Isaac […]

The HIMYM Factor
 

I really want to like CBS’s new comedy, Mad Love. For one thing, it’s a relationship comedy about twenty-somethings. For another thing, it’s got one of the most well-credentialed casts of all time, topped off by the perfect cherry that is Judy Greer. And then there’s the premise, which hopes to take the “wacky sidekicks” […]