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Televisualist: The Less-Famous Version of Yourself

Surprise Homecoming is formulaic. You know what you're gonna get: soldier-reunion porn. Lots and lots of soldier-reunion porn: kids hugging fathers and mothers, husbands hugging wives, parents hugging their kids. Also, for some reason, Billy Ray Cyrus. We're not entirely clear on why he's there, to be honest. (TLC, 8 p.m.)

Televisualist: __________ With The Stars

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. You may think this caricature of Bristol Palin is unkind, but look at her poor partner! What a dork. Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday Dancing With The [...]

Televisualist: At Least It’s Not The Grammys

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Brett’s caption for this was “Jimmy Fallon, laughing at his own jokes like an idiot.” Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday So You Think You Can Dance Canada [...]

Televisualist: Heli-Logging, Ignatieff Slogging

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday Bones airs at its usual time, which is “whenever the hell Fox feels like airing Bones.” The network has been airing the show whenever they can [...]

Televisualist: Greenburg, Chef, and Word (That’s “F”)

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday The Mentalist has mostly justified the excellent “best of new season” hype Televisualist bestowed upon it. Tonight’s episode features Patrick staging a seance to out a [...]

Avi Lewis’s America

According to the Inside the CBC blog and the National Post, Toronto’s favourite boyish-looking provocateur, Avi Lewis, is back on the airwaves with his newest show, Frontline: USA. The show promises to “strip away the spin and highlight real issues such as poverty, violence, race, health, and immigration” in America. Considering that Lewis is involved [...]

In Touch With Your Inner Goth

There’s an old clich&eacute that says everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. It follows, then, that everyone is goth on Halloween . If you’re going to be exploring your inner goth anyway, you may as well go hog wild and get your little black-clad tuchus down to the fourth edition of EBM Fest at [...]

Film Fridays: Hotel Rwanda

Chalk it up to the parade of pap that we’ve been watching of late, but TOist is going to go dramatically serious for this evening’s marquee film recommendation. Hotel Rwanda won the audience award at TIFF, which could mean as little as it could mean a lot. But you go to a film like Hotel [...]