DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2019
May
8
 
 
There are hidden gems, and then there are finds so unexpected — and rewarding — that you wonder how you missed them in the first place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Apr
30
 
 
Temple Beth El in Beckley, West Virginia commemorated their 28th Holocaust Remembrance Day this past Sunday. Each year on that day, Temple worshippers remember not only those who died in the Holocaust but the horror and depravity of all genocides, everywhere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Apr
10
 
 
How little we knew...One of the many truly remarkable things about Game of Thrones – and it is remarkable – is how it took an engaging first season and built on it from there...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Apr
4
 
 
Our Planet opens with a close-up, outer space view...of the moon with the Earth rising gradually behind it. Since Neil Armstrong famously made his first step for man and giant leap for mankind, Attenborough tells us, the human population has doubled...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
27
 
 
For all the familiar tropes trotted out at this week’s Apple TV announcement, the one trope you didn’t hear was, “What does all this mean?”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
12
 
 
People in certain circles seem to be scared of The Good Fight, and that’s a good thing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
6
 
 
’m not enjoying The Voice this season — not so far, anyway. They say numbers don’t lie, and there’s no evidence yet to suggest other viewers are losing interest. And yet. . . . Little things are starting to bother me....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
22
 
 
Dynasties was always going to be different from earlier David Attenborough spectacles like Planet Earth and Blue Planet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
20
 
 
You could be forgiven if, asked how most of the victims in Pompeii died when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, you replied that they were asphyxiated by ash and poisonous gas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
12
 
 
In some ways, Ewan McGregor makes an ideal narrator for the PBS Nature program Wild Way of the Vikings...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Alex Strachan

Alex Strachan has written extensively about television since 1995. He was the staff television critic for The Vancouver Sun from June 1995 to 2003. Prior to that, he was a general-assignment reporter and sportswriter at the Sun, which he originally joined in 1979. He became the national TV critic for Canada’s Postmedia News chain, or Canwest Global Communications as it was then called, in September 2003. He wrote for the chain from 2003-15, during which time his stories appeared regularly on Canada.com and in such daily papers as the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald. In recent years, his writing has focused more on media analysis and industry trends than celebrity profiles and background features, but he still finds time to watch The Voice and The Amazing Race, not to mention guilty pleasures like Banshee and Amazon Hotel. Check out Alex's TV website, The Televisionary, for reviews, in-depth interviews, and opinion pieces. Also,  Alex's personal website focuses on his concern for the world around us through his stunning photographs from his world travels. In addition, check out Alex's blog on his site which he tries to update every two days or so. You can also follow Alex @astrachanideas
 
 
 
 

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