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
Apr
16
 
 
Given the present state of affairs-of-state, one could be forgiven for thinking Arizona Sen. John Sidney McCain III is old news...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
10
 
 
How did he do it? How exactly did Donald John Trump seize control of the Republican Party — “a hostile takeover,” as one political insider describes it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
27
 
 
First of all, no spoilers. Not here, anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
19
 
 
I’m one of the 16 percent...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
11
 
 
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
2
 
 
The presumption of innocence — a cornerstone of the judicial system in any westernized democracy — is ephemeral at the best of times...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
 
 
Confession: I’ve not missed a minute of Survivor since it first aired on May 31, 2000...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
20
 
 
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
13
 
 
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
7
 
 
The Winter Olympics has a captive audience, TV-wise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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