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Television

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June 2022 / Television

The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV

May 30, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Soraya Roberts

How risk avoidance shapes our entertainment

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Looney Tunes plays on an old school television set with literal bunny ears.
Arts & Culture / Television

Looney Tunes Will Never Die and That’s All, Folks!

December 15, 2021April 30, 2022 - by Jaime Weinman

How Bugs Bunny and his pals managed to become a TV success impervious to time and changing standards

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An illustration of characters from The Wheel of Time as well as a man and son with the books
Arts & Culture / Television

The Wheel of Time: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Adaptations of Our Favourite Books

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 - by Harley Rustad

The challenge for Robert Jordan fans is to avoid nitpicking the flashy new Amazon series

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Television

What Television Gets Wrong about Poverty

July 8, 2021March 4, 2022 - by Daniel Panneton

Shows like The Crown offer a romanticized view of economic austerity. But, now more than ever, we need to see the true cost of budget cuts

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Illustration of a racoon and the show title, "Hinterland Who's Who," in white capital letters.
November/December 2020 / Television

The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who

October 21, 2020April 6, 2021 - by Tom Jokinen

Fifty years later, the iconic one-minute nature docs remain the best television to ever come out of Canada

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Photo collage of stills from the TV show I May Destroy You. In the center is the actress Michaela Coel, wearing a head wrap and looking over her shoulder at the viewer. She is surrounded by panels in purple, pink, blue and orange.
Arts & Culture / Television

Almost Every TV Show Gets Sexual Assault Wrong

October 15, 2020October 16, 2020 - by JP Larocque

Television has historically failed to depict the survivor experience. I May Destroy You finally does it justice

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Screenshot of the actress who plays Anne Shirley on the TV show Anne with an E. She has red hair and freckles and is looking towards the top of the frame while wrapped in a grey blanket.
Arts & Culture / Television

When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

August 5, 2020October 13, 2020 - by John Semley

In their campaign to save the show, fans stopped behaving like an audience and started acting like owners

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A screen shot from the Batwoman TV show in which Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) and Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy) hold hands and look into one another's eyes.
Television

The Undeniable Queerness of Superhero Stories

January 17, 2020January 20, 2020 - by Anna Peppard

The genre is built on themes of transformation, disguise, and duality—a reality that LGBTQ folks live every day

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Television

Stop Trying to Make TV Smart

August 7, 2019November 1, 2019 - by Brooke Clark

Your favourite show probably doesn’t have a deeper meaning. That’s okay

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November 2018 / Television

This New CBC Show Is an Antidote to Reality TV

October 31, 2018July 10, 2019 - by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

In an era where sensationalism on our screens dominates, In the Making is a venture into authenticity

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