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

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Jul
19
 
 
Golly! I’ve asked the odd stupid question in my time. Many times, in fact...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jul
12
 
 
You can be forgiven for wondering if Barack Obama was still President the last time you saw a new episode of Game of Thrones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
29
 
 
It’s enough to make grown men cry. No, actually, it is — as in literally...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
21
 
 
Endings are hard. We know this. They’re even harder, perhaps, when they have to put an exclamation mark on an entire series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
8
 
 
Is it possible to be both shaken and stirred at the same time? I know that feeling today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
4
 
 
To hear some people tell it, the upcoming 2018-19 network TV season is the Year of the Remake — and they’re not far wrong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
 
 
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t treading uncharted emotional territory as it reaches the midpoint of its harrowing, nerve-inducing second season — not exactly, anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
21
 
 
Even by Nature’s standards, the pangolin is one weird critter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
 
 
It’s one of the toughest questions there is, as a fan. How do you separate an actor from the character he, or she, plays on TV? Can you separate the two? Is it even right to try to separate the two?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
 
 
It might be hard for the last one out to please turn off the lights if the lights aren’t on to begin with...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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