Whenever I get it in my head to write fiction, I find myself thinking of modernizing an old story. I minored in Classics at school, and even that didn't dilute my love of Greek mythology and drama, so I'll wind up jotting notes for a version of "Medea" set in...

Lights Out - Monday February 20, 10 PM ET, FX Canada/FX
Though this show is just debuting in Canada, it's already been cancelled by FX stateside, so don't get too attached. (Though one assumes no one else did, and that's why the show was scrapped.) It's yet...

This fall, NBC is hoping we'll be ready to welcome Roseanne Barr back to prime time in a new comedy called "Downwardly Mobile" -- and to make it truly retro, they're in negotiations with John Goodman to co-star. All this assuming, of course, that Barr doesn't...

Cougar Town -Tuesday February 14, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, CityTV/ABC
Courteney and Co. are back for a third season of wine-soaked girl talk and the occasional pratfall. Tonight, Grayson makes Jules mad, but for some reason he's doing it on purpose. Maybe he thinks those kids he's confessed...

A show about Broadway, with original music, starring Debra Messing in a charmingly co-dependent relationship with a fabulous gay man, and Anjelica Huston as a merry divorcée? It sounds like a no-brainer hit aimed squarely at the crowd that used to love smart comedies like "Frasier" and "Will & Grace."...

Smash - Monday February 6, 10 p.m. ET/PT, CTV/NBC

Capitalizing on the resurgent popularity of all things Marilyn, this "Glee"-for-grown-ups is set in the world of Broadway, where two seasoned producers (Debra Messing, Christian Borle) are mounting a show based on the life of Norma Jean....

Our search for interesting, unique TV characters seems to have dragged us into a mire of darkness, depression and vice. At this point, almost every critically acclaimed show on TV is about some form of grift -- porn, crystal meth, betting -- or other taboos. Our leading characters have suffered...

The Exes - Thursday February 2, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Global

This TV Land series debuted in the US in November and finally makes its way to Canada. It stars one of my perrenial favorites, Kristen Johnston ("3rd Rock from the Sun") as a divorce attorney and landlord who...

"Touch" - Wednesday January 25, 9 p.m. ET/PT, Global/Fox

Don't get too excited -- tonight is just a preview of this new Keifer Sutherland series, which will eventually debut in March, in the old "24" slot. Created by Tim Kring ("Heroes"), it stars everyone's favourite Christmas tree wrangler...

"Alcatraz" - Monday January 16, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Citytv/Fox

A gruesome murder turns up a strange suspect -- a prisoner at Alcatraz who was supposed to have died 30 years ago, but appears to be alive and un-aged. Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia and Sam Neill play a trio...

"The L.A. Complex" - Tuesday January 10, 9 p.m. ET/PT, CTV/MuchMusic

In Hollywood, everything old is new again, so why not in Toronto too? This blatant re-vamp of the original 'Melrose Place' finds Abby, a displaced Torontonian in the City of Angels, broke, evicted and desperate for a...

I used to want to get married. I'm sure my boyfriend will be surprised (and perhaps relieved) to read that in the past tense. I still want to be married one day, but I'm less and less sure I can hack the getting married part. The actual wedding, I mean.

It seems fitting that on the launch of Huffington Post TV Canada, I'm examining the future of Canadian television. After all, when I first started covering television in 2002, blogs were so new that people said the word with invisible air quotes around it. I think we were...

This time of year is rife with holiday episodes, and for the most part, I think we TV audiences agree that we'd rather our favourite shows take an extra week off rather than produce what is often a badly-written show with too much room given to guest stars...

It seems fitting that on the launch of Huffington Post TV Canada, I'm examining the future of Canadian television. After all, when I first started covering television in 2002, blogs were so new that people said the word with invisible air quotes around it. I think...