The Globe and Mail - Kate Taylor Columns

The coming of the digital revolution

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:00 EDT

In the United States these days, cheery TV ads tell viewers that a change is coming to television as significant as the switch from black and white to colour. In February, U.S. broadcasters will shut off their analog signals, replacing them with digital ones, and anyone still relying on rabbit ears to receive American stations will find the TV screen has gone mysteriously blank - whatever side of the border they sit on.

Digital TV: FAQ

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:28 EDT

Some answers to the pressing questions

The coming of the digital revolution

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:25 EDT

In February, U.S. broadcasters will shut off their analog signals. What does that mean if you have cable or satellite? Nothing. But if you have an antenna and you still want U.S. channels, things get more complicated

Clever consort

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:43 EDT

On The Tudors, Natalie Dormer never let Anne Boleyn's cruel fate get in the way of a good sex scene, but she also made sure the steamy bits didn't get in the way of history

Clever consort

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00 EDT

Good thing Natalie Dormer knows her history. It kept sex with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in perspective.The 26-year-old British actress plays a sultry, wily Anne Boleyn to Rhys Meyers's hungry young Henry VIII on The Tudors - with a second season of triumph and tragedy for her character premiering tonight on CBC Television - and she says her research helped her with the steamy bits.

If only you were so good, Mr. President

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00 EDT

When French filmmaker Emilio Pacull set out to make a documentary about how American movies and television shows depict the U.S. presidency, he thought he would be offering a critique of Hollywood fantasy, media manipulation and the blurring boundary between TV and reality in the United States. Instead, he discovered that some much-needed idealism might be bleeding from the fictional world into real politics.

ROM to exhibit Dead Sea scrolls next summer

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:21 EDT

Expected to attract 600,000 visitors during their six-month exhibition

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT DEAD SEA SCROLLS NEXT SUMMER

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00 EDT

In his continuing campaign to paint his government as arts-loving and culture-friendly, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced yesterday that the Royal Ontario Museum will play host to an unprecedented exhibit of the Dead Sea scrolls next year.

Oops! I'm playing an icon

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:10 EDT

Benicio Del Toro found the prospect of playing Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's epic Spanish-language opus a daunting task