Excerpt from John Doyle’s Weekend Viewing Extraordinary Canadians Sunday, 8:30 p.m., CITY-TV This series, one of those all-too-rare explorations of Canadian history and culture on TV these days, has prominent Canadian figures dwelling for 30 minutes on the life and achievements of important figures from our past. On this one, Adrienne Clarkson looks at Norman …
Oct 27, 2011 Robin Shanks for iVillage.ca Montreal director Karen Cho brings three extraordinary Canadians into your home this fall. Citytv, OMNI Television and The Biography Channel are airing a 12 week series, Extraordinary Canadians, featuring some of the country’s most influential people. Cho, who directs three of the 12 segments (which profile Norman Bethune, …
October 24, 2011 Bill Brownstein for Postmedia News Canadians tend to shy away from superlatives, particularly when describing ourselves. We’re generally a bashful people and leave the bravado and bragging to our neighbours to the south. So we know something special beckons when a couple of homegrown TV execs outdo themselves in calling their new …
Oct 21, 2011 Bruce DeMara for The Toronto Star Eccentric genius, recluse, hypochondriac. Canadians may think they know who classical music legend Glenn Gould is. Mark Kingwell begs to differ. Kingwell, an author and associate chair of philosophy at the University of Toronto, will offer a more textured view of Gould as the series Extraordinary …