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Nelly Furtado. Furtado, who previously hosted the Junos in 2007, will also perform at the ceremony.
Leopoldstadt. Topham, who has not appeared at Stratford since 2013, will also perform in The Diviners, a new adaptation of the Margaret Lawrence novel.
Swan Song and BlackBerry. “We have enough research to show that linear audiences are different from Gem audiences, and so we see ourselves as cheerleaders in getting content seen by as many people as possible,’’ Sally Catto, the CBC’s general manager of entertainment, factual and sports, told The Globe’s Barry Hertz of the decision to reformat.
More than 70. Kulczycky credits the film’s recent theatrical run – and the band’s appearance at a screening during the Toronto International Film Festival – with helping him get out of the hospital after his accident.
Flipanthropy. The Curse is “a meticulously engineered experiment designed to see how tense a situation can get until audiences are provoked to unrestrained hysterics,” wrote Barry Hertz, who named the series a Critic’s Pick.