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Contributors Archive

2019

May

‘SAD HILL UNEARTHED’ A GRAVE RESTORATION BACK FROM THE DEAD — AND ONE OF THE MOST JOYFUL NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES YOU WILL SEE ALL YEAR By Alex Strachan

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

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: PBS' 'FRONTLINE' ON THE HOLOCAUST, SURVIVORS GUILT, AND THE REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST By Alex Strachan

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

BACK IN TIME TO ‘GAME OF THRONES’ BEGINNINGS – HOW LITTLE THEY KNEW By Alex Strachan

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

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH REVISITS ‘PLANET EARTH’ TERRITORY IN NETFLIX’S ‘OUR PLANET,’ BUT WITH A STRONGER, CLEARER PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOICE By Alex Strachan

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

WELCOME TO THE AGE OF THE UNBUNDLE: APPLE TV+ JOINS THE FRAY OF STREAMING SERVICES By Alex Strachan

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

‘THE GOOD FIGHT’ BACK FOR A THIRD ROUND, READY TO GO THE DISTANCE By Alex Strachan

People in certain circles seem to be scared of The Good Fight, and that’s a good thing...

2019

Mar

HAS ‘THE VOICE’ PEAKED? THE FALSE NOTES ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW By Alex Strachan

’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

SO YOU WANT TO BE A WILDLIFE FILMMAKER? THESE ARE THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE ‘DYNASTIES’ By Alex Strachan

Dynasties was always going to be different from earlier David Attenborough spectacles like Planet Earth and Blue Planet...

2019

Feb

PBS' 'NATURE' EXAMINES LIFE ON “THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION” IN ‘LIVING VOLCANOES’ By Alex Strachan

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

‘PBS NATURE’ GOES BACK IN TIME TO THE AGE OF THE VIKINGS By Alex Strachan

In some ways, Ewan McGregor makes an ideal narrator for the PBS Nature program Wild Way of the Vikings...

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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 @astrachanideas