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

 
 
 
 
 
2017
Oct
25
 
 
I knew a number of things about Vladimir Putin before I sat down to PBS’ Frontline’s two-part program Putin’s Revenge, which premieres Wednesday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
17
 
 
Are there are any common traits that link human cultures and beliefs around the world?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
If Jennifer Hudson had a hit single every time Blake Shelton told her that winning The Voice UK won’t cut any ice on the US Voice, she’d be ahead of chart-topping career earner Rihanna by now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
4
 
 
“Naledi” is the Setswana word for ‘star,’ but it's also the name of a 90-minute documentary about efforts to revive a sickly, wild elephant that was found orphaned and near death in a private wilderness reserve...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
29
 
 
Endings are hard, postscripts arguably even harder. For ten nights spread over two weeks, I was held rapt by Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s seminal, ground-breaking documentary The Vietnam War...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
28
 
 
In the right hands and with the fullness of time, the sadness of loss can become an extraordinarily humane examination of the fragility and beauty of life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
27
 
 
These are final days. The Vietnam War is winding down to its inevitable conclusion, and night 9 of Ken Burns’ epic, eye-opening documentary series opens with no voiceover...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
26
 
 
“My older sister and I one time were watching the movie So Proudly We Hail! on TV,” ex-Army nurse Joan Furey recalls in the opening moments of “The History of the World,” tonight’s latest chapter in The Vietnam War...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
25
 
 
It’s the summer of ’68 when The Vietnam War picks up the thread in “The Veneer of Civilization.” The home front is restive. Americans of draft age face difficult decisions and hard moral choices in increasing numbers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
24
 
 
The helicopter. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, to be exact, or “Huey.” Designed to meet the US Army’s 1952 requirement for medical evacuation...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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