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EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'The Princess' HBO documentary: Heartbreaking portrait of Princess Diana's life 25 years after her death
It's been 25 years since the death of Princess Diana and a new HBO documentary, The Princess (streaming on Crave in Canada Aug. 13 at at 8:00 p.m. ET) explores the debate on public fascination and scrutiny of her life, including her battle with the paparazzi.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'A League of Their Own' star Kelly McCormack brings Canadian history to Prime Video series
Abbi Jacobson transformed Penny Marshall’s 1992 movie A League of Their Own into a Prime Video series. Kelly McCormack from Vancouver stars in the show and discovered Canada’s extensive history with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaNetflix 'Never Have I Ever' Season 3: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stresses it's not Team Paxton or Team Ben, it's Team Devi
In Never Have I Ever Season 3, co-created by Mindy Kaling, it may be tempting to focus on whether we’re Team Paxton, Team Ben or Team Des, but Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is stressing that it’s really about being Team Devi.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'A League of Their Own' Prime Video series: Abbi Jacobson tells stories hidden under Penny Marshall's movie
Few movies are more iconic, particularly for women, than Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own, but Abbi Jacobson's reexamining of what life was like for women in 1943 is a worthy, essential expansion to the story we got in the 1992 film.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaNetflix 'Locke & Key' series finale: Connor Jessup remembers early frustrations, celebrates filming in Toronto
Netflix show Locke & Key has come to end with Season 3 and Canadian star Connor Jessup, who plays Tyler Locke, is reminiscing about the series finale (spoilers ahead), his early frustrations with the character and celebrating filming in his hometown of Toronto.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaCanadian 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' star teases prehistoric Hobbits, defends series showrunners
Canadian actor Dylan Smith plays Largo Brandyfoot, a kind of “prehistoric Hobbit” in Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power from Amazon Studios, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth's history, releasing September 2.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaNetflix 'The Sandman': Neil Gaiman needed sign off on this part of Tom Sturridge's performance
More than 30 years later, Neil Gaiman's 75-issue comic series “The Sandman” is seeing the screen in the Netflix series The Sandman, starring Tom Sturridge.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'Easter Sunday': Jo Koy blasts 'ignorant,' 'lazy' argument that stories about Asian families are 'too specific'
Jo Koy has been an open critic about how stories about Asian families have been deemed “too specific” to be worthy of investment, but the comic is pushing back on that “lazy” and "ignorant" argument, ahead of his Easter Sunday movie premiere.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'We really haven't been able to be funny as Native actors': Canadian Sarah Podemski praises 'Reservation Dogs' Season 2
Now that the hit FX show Reservation Dogs has returned for Season 2, Canadian actor Sarah Podemski stresses that the success of the first season has allowed the series to “push the boundaries,” including intensifying the comedy that is rarely seen by Indigenous actors on TV.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'Surface' on AppleTV+: An 'unapologetically feminine' take on a psychological thriller
The latest AppleTV+ psychological thriller, Surface, has its star, and executive producer, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, working through questions around what happens when you can’t trust your own mind anymore.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaSofia Carson spotlights how 'Purple Hearts' on Netflix 'captures the zeitgeist' of her generation
Descendants star Sofia Carson has taken a massive step in her career, taking on the role of an executive producer, lead actor and writing songs for the soundtrack to the new Netflix movie Purple Hearts, also starring Nicholas Galitzine.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaStranded in Canada’s wilderness alone: Netflix series ‘Keep Breathing’ exposes harsh north
A new survival thriller from Netflix, Keep Breathing, takes In The Heights star Melissa Barrera and drops her in the remote Canadian north, trying to survive for her life.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaHBO Max 'Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin': The slasher horror chapter of iconic series
The team behind the Netflix hit Chilling Adventures of Sabrina have stepped into the world of the 2010s Pretty Little Liars universe, with HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (on Crave in Canada), starring Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Zaria and Mallory Bechtel.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'Players' on Paramount+: 'American Vandal' creators bring 'confident idiots' to esports mockumentary show
From the team that brought us to iconic Netflix American Vandal mockumentary series, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault are closing out another hysterical show with Players on Paramount+, all based around the world of esports.
NewsVarietyChris Cuomo Will Join NewsNation in Return to TV News
After a long and much-publicized interruption, Chris Cuomo wants to get after it again. Cuomo, who made that phrase the mission statement for his 9 p.m. program on CNN, is taking his bulldog demeanor and lean-in anchoring style to NewsNation, the still-nascent news outlet backed by large station owner Nexstar Media, which has in recent […]
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaShania Twain reveals 'violent' past, fears of 'never singing again' in 'Not Just A Girl' documentary on Netflix
In a new documentary Not Just A Girl (on Netflix July 26), the legendary Shania Twain opens up about thinking she would never sing again as a result of her Lyme disease infection.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaNetflix 'Virgin River' Season 4 star Kai Bradbury teases mysterious character, celebrates filming in Canada
After Kai Bradbury’s dramatic introduction as Doc Mullins’ (Tim Matheson) long-lost grandson Denny, in Season 4 of Virgin River on Netflix the Canadian actor is further complicating relationships in the remote northern California town (actually filmed in British Columbia).
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'The Amazing Race Canada': Jully Black initially had 'no interest at all', but it was Kathy Hunter's dream
Canada’s Queen of R&B, Jully Black, and her friend Kathy Hunter, may have had a short stint on The Amazing Race Canada, but Black revealed she initially didn't even want to be a racer on the show.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaAppleTV+ 'Black Bird': Ray Liotta's last TV show had Sepideh Moafi diving into women bullied in the FBI
In the late Ray Liotta’s last TV role before his death, Black Bird on AppleTV+ (premiering July 8), also starring Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser and Sepideh Moafi, is a gut-wrenchingly gripping serial killer, true crime psychological thriller.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'The Amazing Race Canada' Season 8: Host Jon Montgomery teases 'super competitive' teams
It’s been a long COVID-19 hiatus for The Amazing Race Canada but the show is finally back with Season 8 (premiering July 5 at 9:00 p.m. ET on CTV, CTV.ca and the CTV app), with host Jon Montgomery teasing that this year’s teams are “super competitive.”
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaNetflix 'Stranger Things': Jamie Campbell Bower on falling love with Vecna, why we're attracted to the villain
'Stranger Things' star Jamie Campbell Bower on falling in love with Vecna, what makes Vecna/Henry/One an attractive character to watch, and how he felt "drained" after filming Season 4 of this hit Netflix show.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'Tehran' on AppleTV+: 'Glenn Close moved far outside her comfort zone' for Season 2
The highly thrilling AppleTV+ series Tehran has closed out Season 2, ending with Glenn Close’s character Marjan being left for dead by Faraz (Shaun Toub) and his wife Nahid (Shila Ommi), and Milad (Shervin Alenabi), Tamar’s (Niv Sultan) boyfriend, caught in flames in a car explosion, and we can't stop thinking about it.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaBaz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis' starring Austin Butler: Olivia DeJonge's Priscilla is a 'break' from male-dominated story
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis has all eyes on Austin Butler but don’t underestimate Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley, giving us a “break” from the male-dominated narrative that's told from the perspective of Tom Hanks’ character Colonel Tom Parker.
EntertainmentYahoo News Canada'The Lake': Amazon's Prime Video bites back at stereotype that U.S. TV is better than Canadian shows
Bringing us comedy, turbulent family dynamics and the quintessentially Canadian cottage experience, The Lake, Prime Video’s first scripted Amazon original series in Canada, is a spectacularly funny show, starring Julia Stiles and Madison Shamoun, among Canadian talents like Jordan Gavaris, Jon Dore and Natalie Lisinska.
EntertainmentYahoo News CanadaAppleTV+ 'Cha Cha Real Smooth': Cooper Raiff’s movie with Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Burghardt is the nostalgic dramedy we need
In a refreshingly funny, honest and heartwarming coming-of-age story, Cooper Raiff’s movie Cha Cha Real Smooth, starring Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Burghardt (on AppleTV+ June 17) is the drama-comedy film we needed, dare we say the dramedy of the year.
