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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2018

Mar

‘METHOD’ VIEWING: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NETFLIX By Alex Strachan

I’m one of the 16 percent...

2018

Mar

'GOOD FIGHT' PRESENTS SOME GREAT TV By Alex Strachan

As a viewer looking for an evening’s hour of good entertainment — something that makes me laugh as well as think — I find CBS All Access' The Good Fight to be one of the most consistently entertaining dramas on TV...

2018

Mar

PBS' 'FRONTLINE' PULLS BACK THE CURTAIN ON HOLLYWOOD ABUSE WITH "WEINSTEIN" By Alex Strachan

The presumption of innocence — a cornerstone of the judicial system in any westernized democracy — is ephemeral at the best of times...

2018

Feb

‘SURVIVOR’: I CAME FOR THE SCENERY, BUT STAYED FOR THE SOCIAL GAME By Alex Strachan

Confession: I’ve not missed a minute of Survivor since it first aired on May 31, 2000...

2018

Feb

PBS FRONTLINE’S ‘BITTER RIVALS’ TELLS A COMPLEX STORY SIMPLY AND WELL By Alex Strachan

Long after the Olympics are a receding memory, the issues raised in tonight’s PBS Frontline documentary Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia...will be simmering at best and, at worst, roiling the entire Middle East in a wall of flame...

2018

Feb

WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, OLYMPIC SKATING TURNS TO WEIRD SONG CHOICES, WEIRD FALLS AND WEIRD WEIR HAIR By Alex Strachan

Let’s face it. It was kinda fun watching Canada waltz to an Olympic gold medal in the team figure skating event this past weekend...

2018

Feb

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE — NO, SERIOUSLY. THIS COULD BE AN OLYMPIC STORY FOR THE AGES By Alex Strachan

The Winter Olympics has a captive audience, TV-wise...

2018

Feb

NOT YETI — AT LEAST, NOT YET By Alex Strachan

I shared an elevator not so long ago with Matt Moneymaker. In a Beverly Hills hotel. He saw my TV Critics Association name badge, looked at me quizzically and said, “Didn’t you write about me?”...

2018

Jan

TV IN THE 'VALLEY OF DECISION': WHAT BODES FOR THE SMALL SCREEN’S FUTURE? By Alex Strachan

The end times are nigh. “Oh, there will be a reckoning!” they say. But wait. “Reports of television’s death are greatly exaggerated,” say others...

2018

Jan

'BLUE PLANET II': FAMILY PROGRAMMING IN A WAY YOU DIDN’T EXPECT By Alex Strachan

Finally. The curtain rises Saturday (Jan. 20) on Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, on BBC America and four of its AMC Networks sibling channels...

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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. 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 @astrachanphoto