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Reasons to hope on a Monday

a ryan@globeandmail.com Take a moment to appreciate that grey skies really are starting to clear up, even on a cold Monday in late November. Given the hard economic times of the past year, and our near re-entry to the soup-line era, try to acknowledge ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  John Doyle (politician),  PBS

Northeastern calls an end to football

Northeastern University plans to announce today that it is ending its football program after 74 seasons, saying it is unwilling to invest the millions of dollars needed to improve the team to meet the school’s ambitions. President Joseph E. Aoun and ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  NFL,  Rocky Hager,  Colonial Athletic Association

Weekend TV picks

The weekend beckons with TV bounties this time of year. Dramas and comedies are in first-run episodes, documentaries and news programs are in abundance and sports fans have their choice of hockey, basketball and football – either NFL or CFL. I prefer ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John F. Kennedy,  NFL,  Michael Jackson,  Whitney Houston,  Eminem

Show won't go on, but Oprah brand will

A s one TV door closes for Oprah Winfrey, a much bigger one is apparently about to open. And nobody should be surprised the biggest brand name in television is thinking big. The daytime talk diva will end her popular The Oprah Winfrey Show in September, ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harpo (musician),  Discovery Communications,  The Learning Channel,  Martha Stewart,  O, The Oprah Magazine

THE NUMBERS

T here's a world of difference between what people watch on television and which TV series consumers buy in DVD box sets. As shown in the list below, the sci-fi series Farscape still has a solid fan following and the British nature series Planet Earth ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

THE CHANNEL

D IVA REDUX Add Whitney Houston's name to the talent lineup for the Dancing with the Stars finale. The nineties pop diva will appear on next Tuesday's finale results show, two days after she performs live on the American Music Awards . Currently on the ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Whitney Houston,  Bob Saget,  Queen Latifah,  Taylor Swift,  Susan Boyle

The show's a success, but the friendship's wearing thin

j aryan@globeandmail.com Like a great many viewers in this country, I find myself deeply conflicted in regard to Kenny vs. Spenny . For the past several years, the homegrown series has worked off a painfully simple premise - lifelong friends Kenny Hotz ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC

HIGHLIGHT JFK

D irector Oliver Stone worked the conspiracy-theory angle to a fever pitch in this 1991 treatise focusing on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The controversial director assembled his script from two popular novels challenging the accepted version ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John F. Kennedy,  Oliver Stone,  Lee Harvey Oswald,  Gary Oldman,  Jim Garrison

CBC's Doc Zone goes up against the walls

Where were you when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down? Anyone into their third decade will recall that live TV coverage of the momentous occasion had people dancing in the streets and strangers hugging each other – and not just in East and West ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  CBC,  Ariel Sharon,  The Learning Channel

Just arrived, but Cra$h & Burn looks grimy and dated

I f you teach your children anything, make certain they don't look to television when choosing a career path. Never underestimate TV's hypnotic sway over impressionable young minds, and be sure the kids do some research before diving headlong into a ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  Clark Johnson,  Paul Gross,  Great White (musician),  John Doyle (politician)

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