Results tagged “frontline”

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.

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 and that the show airs on Al Jazeera English, chances are that Frontline: USA won't be a Dobbsian exercise in blaming America's problems on immigrants.

There's an old cliché that says everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. It follows, then, that everyone is goth on Halloween .

not so much to like it as to feel it. It won't be a Sunday at the pool in Kigali, but TOist thinks the Don Cheadle/Nick Nolte helmed story of one small piece of the greater horror of the Rwandan Genocide is a worthy pick, though perhaps not on Friday night, right before you go out carousing with friends.