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Hamilton Spectator
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
CTV comedy ‘Children Ruin Everything' among early Canadian Screen Award winners
Comedian Lisa Gilroy opened the Canadian Screen Awards Sunday with several self-deprecating jokes while also taking light jabs at celebrities and calling on Canadians to toast homegrown content. 'We're here to celebrate an industry that's helped birth enormous global stars like Drake,' Gilroy said on stage at CBC headquarters in her opening monologue. 'And commemorate stars we've lost in the past year, like Drake.' In an opening skit, Will Sasso referred to Gilroy, who is from Edmonton and based in Los Angeles, as the 'Canadian Nikki Glaser only less successful,' to which she retorted, 'Exactly.' Gilroy also joked that Australian actor Cate Blanchett, up for best lead performance in a comedy, was in the building as well — before the camera panned to a mannequin donning a dress in the audience. Early winners included CTV's 'Children Ruin Everything,' which won best comedy. The sitcom is created by Ottawa's Kurt Smeaton and stars Meaghan Rath and Aaron Abrams as a couple trying to carve out an identity beyond parenthood. Andrew Phung of CBC's 'Run the Burbs' won for best lead performer in a comedy series and Crave's drag queen competition series 'Canada's Drag Race' for best reality program. 'Canada's Drag Race' judge Brooke Lynn Hytes thanked her fellow queens while accepting the award. 'Thank you for coming on TV, sharing your stories, and letting it all hang out literally and figuratively,' she said. 'Canada's Drag Race' won five categories at an industry gala earlier in the week, including best host for Hytes, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor. A best sound prize for 'Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World' handed the franchise an additional trophy. Matthew Rankin's 'Universal Language' was among the leading contenders heading into tonight's bash. The absurdist Winnipeg-set dramedy picked up five awards at Saturday's industry gala for cinematic arts, including best original screenplay, casting and art direction. It was also up for the best film trophy against 'The Apprentice,' 'Darkest Miriam,' 'Gamma Rays,' 'Village Keeper' and 'Who Do I Belong To.' On the red carpet before the show, Rankin reflected on the definition of Canadian content amid political tensions with the U.S. over tariffs and sovereignty. 'We're in this political moment where we have to reckon with what Canada means, and ideally we should be thinking also about what it will mean as we go forward and what cinema can contribute to that,' the filmmaker said. 'I think of Canada as a space that should constantly be redefined. But usually, when I identify something as being Canadian, I think it feels like a President's Choice Hollywood movie,' Rankin quipped. Prime Video docuseries 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal' nabbed a leading seven wins at a Friday bash for the documentary, factual, lifestyle and reality categories. Trophies for the docuseries on The Tragically Hip included best biography or arts documentary series and best director for Michael Downie, brother of the band's late frontman Gord Downie. 'Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent,' which led all nominees overall with 20, was up for several after winning two awards on Saturday for best writing in a drama series and best sound in fiction. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 1, 2025.
Hamilton Spectator
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
CTV comedy Children Ruin Everything' among early Candian Screen Award winners
Comedian Lisa Gilroy opened the Canadian Screen Awards Sunday with several self-deprecating jokes while also taking light jabs at celebrities and calling on Canadians to toast homegrown content. 'We're here to celebrate an industry that's helped birth enormous global stars like Drake,' Gilroy said on stage at CBC headquarters in her opening monologue. 'And commemorate stars we've lost in the past year, like Drake.' In an opening skit Will Sasso referred to Gilroy as the 'Canadian Nikki Glaser only less successful,' to which she quipped, 'Exactly.' Gilroy also joked that Australian actor Cate Blanchett, up for best lead performance in a comedy, was in the building as well — before the camera panned to a mannequin donning a dress in the audience. Early winners included CTV's 'Children Ruin Everything,' which won best comedy. The The sitcom is created by Ottawa's Kurt Smeaton and stars Meaghan Rath and Aaron Abrams as a couple trying to carve out an identity beyond parenthood. Andrew Phung of CBC's 'Run the Burbs' won for best lead performer in a comedy series and Crave's drag queen competition series 'Canada's Drag Race' for best reality program. 'Canada's Drag Race' judge Brooke Lynn Hytes thanked her fellow queens while accepting the award. 'Thank you for coming on TV, sharing your stories, and letting it all hang out literally and figuratively,' she said. 'Canada's Drag Race' won five categories at an industry gala earlier in the week, including best host for Hytes, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor. A best sound prize for 'Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World' handed the franchise an additional trophy. Matthew Rankin's 'Universal Language' was among the leading contenders heading into tonight's bash. The absurdist Winnipeg-set dramedy picked up five awards at Saturday's industry gala for cinematic arts, including best original screenplay, casting and art direction. It was also up for the best film trophy against 'The Apprentice,' 'Darkest Miriam,' 'Gamma Rays,' 'Village Keeper' and 'Who Do I Belong To.' On the red carpet before the show, Rankin reflected on the definition of Canadian content amid political tensions with the U.S. over tariffs and sovereignty. 'We're in this political moment where we have to reckon with what Canada means, and ideally we should be thinking also about what it will mean as we go forward and what cinema can contribute to that,' the filmmaker said. 'I think of Canada as a space that should constantly be redefined. But usually, when I identify something as being Canadian, I think it feels like a President's Choice Hollywood movie,' Rankin said. Prime Video docuseries 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal' nabbed a leading seven wins at a Friday bash for the documentary, factual, lifestyle and reality categories. Trophies for the docuseries on The Tragically Hip included best biography or arts documentary series and best director for Michael Downie, brother of the band's late frontman Gord Downie. 'Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent,' which led all nominees overall with 20, was up for several after winning two awards on Saturday for best writing in a drama series and best sound in fiction. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 1, 2025.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Northern California garlic festival returns to Gilroy for the first time since mass shooting
( –A 40-year-old garlic celebration is returning to its roots in Gilroy for the first time since a mass shooting prompted it to relocate, then later be cancelled.• In 2019, a 19-year-old gunman attacked the event, killing three people, including two children. 13 others were wounded before the shooter killed himself as police officers closed in. Subsequently, the Gilroy event moved to various locations. Garlic Festival shooting victims: Two children and recent college graduate Three years later, in 2022, officials said the Gilroy Garlic Festival was replaced by the California Garlic Festival at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds and Los Banos because of difficulties from the pandemic and financial restraints. Now, the Gilroy celebration is determined to make a triumphant comeback. 'Although we enjoyed a successful festival for three years, we believe it is better suited in Gilroy,' California Garlic Festival organizers said. 'We are pleased to see that Gilroy has implemented the necessary adjustments to revive their event, returning to its home base.' California Garlic Festival leaves Stockton for Merced County The Gilroy Garlic Festival is scheduled to take place from July 25 to 27 at Gilroy Gardens. The 3-day celebration promises to be an exciting event that includes live music entertainment, vendors, and the world-famous Pyro Chefs firing up their giant skillets with garlic-laced scampi, calamari, garlic bread, garlic fries, garlic desserts, and more. 'We are thrilled to be bringing the Gilroy Garlic Festival back this year,' said Gilroy Garlic Festival Association President Paul Nadeau. 'Our dedicated volunteers have been working tirelessly to make this event special for Gilroy and the garlic-loving community at large.' Nadeau added, 'While this year's festival will be smaller in scope, we're thrilled to be able to gather once again to honor our past, celebrate the present, and build something lasting for the future. Tickets are currently on sale. For more information, visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Andor Season 2: Star Wars' boldest story returns
For a spinoff of a film that itself was a spinoff from a franchise built on the spectacle of lightsabers and the supernatural powers of the Force, it is pleasantly surprising that the second season of Tony Gilroy's Andor once again sidesteps the toy and merchandise-selling facet of Star Wars to tell an actual story. In doing so, Andor proves for the second time why it is currently the best offering on television and the franchise as a whole. Picking up a year after the events in the first season, the thief-turned-spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) continues hurtling through the galaxy, from one mission to the next, as his handler Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) continues to scheme of ways to disrupt the operations of the Galactic Empire and unite all the different factions of rebels into a single alliance. At the same time, the Empire's director of advanced weapons research Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) sets his eyes on the planet Ghorman for its rare minerals, a critical element the Empire requires for its 'sustainable energy programme'. Rather than directly invade the planet, Krennic puts Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) in charge of manufacturing a complex scheme that eventually leads to a planet-wide genocide. Leaning into the political thriller and espionage framework that he laid in Andor's first season, showrunner Gilroy's second journey into this side of Star Wars is far more intense. Whether intentional or otherwise, Andor's deeply layered, intricately weaved story bears strong similarities to current-day events. Gilroy leverages the smaller moving components – some almost never mentioned or talked about in prior Star Wars media – to work the bigger machinations of the plot, such as the ISB and Dedra's use of the media to spread propaganda and maintain control of the 'Empire good, rebel bad' narrative, and the Empire's – or Krennic's – plan to use false flag operations to take over Ghorman. The show explores even weightier themes, such as the differing views Cassian, Luthen, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly), Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt) and others in the burgeoning rebel alliance have over the best way to fight the Empire, mirroring the discord within and among real-world militias on strategy and tactics. As Andor is the prequel to 2016's Rogue One, which itself was a prequel to 1977's Star Wars, even the most casual viewer would know how this story plays out, yet Gilroy does not allow this narrative awareness to hinder the particular journey his characters have to take. He instead uses the series, particularly the second season, to focus on the characters whose actions or inaction led to the events that would become a part of pop culture history. Though he plays with the similar images, sets, costumes and props that are signature to Star Wars, the way they are used is remarkably different. Free from the shackles of obsessing over the Skywalker family, flashy lightsabers or Force-powered nonsensical gymnastics, Gilroy successfully introduces new ways to tell a Star Wars story with both seasons of Andor and the franchise is all the better for it. Andor's second season is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
The Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Rebels need no Skywalker
For a spinoff of a film that itself was a spinoff from a franchise built on the spectacle of lightsabers and the supernatural powers of the Force, it is pleasantly surprising that the second season of Tony Gilroy's Andor once again sidesteps the toy and merchandise-selling facet of Star Wars to tell an actual story. In doing so, Andor proves for the second time why it is currently the best offering on television and the franchise as a whole. Picking up a year after the events in the first season, the thief-turned-spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) continues hurtling through the galaxy, from one mission to the next, as his handler Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) continues to scheme of ways to disrupt the operations of the Galactic Empire and unite all the different factions of rebels into a single alliance. At the same time, the Empire's director of advanced weapons research Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) sets his eyes on the planet Ghorman for its rare minerals, a critical element the Empire requires for its 'sustainable energy programme'. Rather than directly invade the planet, Krennic puts Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) in charge of manufacturing a complex scheme that eventually leads to a planet-wide genocide. Leaning into the political thriller and espionage framework that he laid in Andor 's first season, showrunner Gilroy's second journey into this side of Star Wars is far more intense. Whether intentional or otherwise, Andor 's deeply layered, intricately weaved story bears strong similarities to current-day events. Gilroy leverages the smaller moving components – some almost never mentioned or talked about in prior Star Wars media – to work the bigger machinations of the plot, such as the ISB and Dedra's use of the media to spread propaganda and maintain control of the 'Empire good, rebel bad' narrative, and the Empire's – or Krennic's – plan to use false flag operations to take over Ghorman. The show explores even weightier themes, such as the differing views Cassian, Luthen, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly), Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt) and others in the burgeoning rebel alliance have over the best way to fight the Empire, mirroring the discord within and among real-world militias on strategy and tactics. As Andor is the prequel to 2016's Rogue One, which itself was a prequel to 1977's Star Wars, even the most casual viewer would know how this story plays out, yet Gilroy does not allow this narrative awareness to hinder the particular journey his characters have to take. He instead uses the series, particularly the second season, to focus on the characters whose actions or inaction led to the events that would become a part of pop culture history. Though he plays with the similar images, sets, costumes and props that are signature to Star Wars, the way they are used is remarkably different. Free from the shackles of obsessing over the Skywalker family, flashy lightsabers or Force-powered nonsensical gymnastics, Gilroy successfully introduces new ways to tell a Star Wars story with both seasons of Andor and the franchise is all the better for it.
