Janette's TV Podcast

Do you free to live your life and be the person you were meant to be? Hear Jackie Shane sing once and you’ll never forget it. Yet, after shattering barriers as one of pop music’s first Black trans performers, this trail-blazing icon vanished from the spotlight at the height of her fame. From modest beginnings in Nashville, Shane soon recognized her talents and, in her late teens, made her way to B...

Remember your first summer romance and how it made you feel?  Sweeties  is a documentary that follows three 14-year-old girls as they embark on a summer holiday with their families to a campsite in the South of France. Feelings and aspirations of young love are in the air. The outdoor campsites, however, are in stark contrast with the online world, where a lot of the girls’ connections are rooted....

What’s your superpower? For actress and activist, Lenore Zann, best known for playing “Rogue” (based on Marvels comics superhero team) in the X-Men Series, the 90’s X-Men: The Animated Series Disney+ revival X-Men ’97, it’s fighting for the underdog. A skill she derives from her character as well as serving as a Member of Parliament and in the House of Commons of Canada for the Liberal Party for 1...

Are you a sucker for romance?   Love is in the air this Spring, and at Sky Gardens!   Released in 2021, the made-for-TV movie stars Hong Kong born Canadian actress, Jenny Raven, known for her work as “Gwen” on Kim’s Convenience, Irina Wong in the American film Flatliners and Sasha Dixon in the television series Designated Survivor. Another notable performance was as “Jasmine” in Arkangel, a Series...

How important is family and community to you? Heartland is a Canadian family comedy-drama television series that debuted in Canada on CBC Television and originally in the United States on The CW Plus syndication on October 14, 2007. Since 2010, the show's been airing on Up TV in first-run broadcast, and still continues to be broadcast as apart of the service's weekend schedule. The show...

Do you love a good laugh? How about when the joke is on you?  Roast Battle Canada is a Canadian television comedy series. it premiered on CTV Comedy Channel in October 2021 as an adaptation of the American series Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle. The series presents battles in which pairs of comedians take turns roasting each other on stage, before a panel of judges who decides the winner of each b...

How well do you ever really know someone you are friends with? These is a question British Columbia’s actor turned writer and director, Laura Adkin, contemplates in her feature film debut Re:Uniting. Released in Toronto on March 15th, the film is being shown in select CINEPLEX movie theaters across Canada before coming to various streaming platforms. It features six best friends from college, now...

Were you a fan of the late, great comedian Jackie Mason? Then you won’t want to miss The Jackie Mason Musical coming to Toronto, Prosserman JCC, Leah Poslun’s Theatre, Saturday, April 13th & Sunday, April 14th, 7pm both nights,  plus a 2pm matinee on Saturday, April 13th.   Written and scored by playwright/songwriter/actress Ginger Reiter, the show, hosted by Kol Tov Productions/Jewish Comedy...

American cinematographer Ellen Kuras’s work includes narrative and documentary films , music videos and commercials in both the studio and independent worlds. One of few female members of the American Society of Cinematographers , she is a pioneer best known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) . She has collaborated with directors such as Michel Gondry , Spike Lee , Sam Mendes , Jim J...

Ex-Montrealer and Canadian Actress, Jennifer Finnigan, never stops hustling for roles. She is  known for her portraying Bridget Forrester in the American soap The Bold and the Beautiful (2000 to 2004), for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series . She also appeared on the CBS legal drama Close to Home (2005–2007) and the ABC sitcom Better with You...

Related to Canadian Actor Gordon Pinsent, Actress Laura Vandervoort hails from Toronto and is best known for her roles as Sadie Harrison in the CTV teen drama series Instant Star , Arla "The Bolt-Gun Killer" Cogan in the Syfy supernatural drama series Haven , Kara Zor-El ( Supergirl ) in The CW serial drama series Smallville and as Lisa in the ABC science fiction series V .   In 2014, sh...

Mothers, sisters, cousins, mentors, and friends, from birth to death, in both good & bad times, across every century, race and religion, women play a constant and significant role in each other’s lives. Female bonds are indeed unbreakable. Yet how many times have you known or heard stories of women who appear at odds, behaving terribly towards one another? Or worse, been the one to spread the...

Have you been abused or grown up with an abusive parent or grandparent?   In this episode, I speak with Antony Penrose, and Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller’s real-life son and granddaughter at the movie LEE TIFF red carpet premiere about what it was like to be around the former model, fine art photographer and noted war correspondent, Lee Miller, played by Kate Winslet. Admired by the outside world for...

Have you been abused or grown up with an abusive parent or grandparent?   In this episode, I speak with Antony Penrose, and Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller’s real-life son and granddaughter at the movie LEE TIFF red carpet premiere about what it was like to be around the former model, fine art photographer and noted war correspondent, Lee Miller, played by Kate Winslet. Admired by the outside world for...

Born in Toronto and raised in Brampton, she admits to being a reality TV junkie. She’s been bullied for no reason. Shamed by her size, she dropped a considerable amount of weight the past year.  She empowers women with knowledge about cars, lifestyle, and travel on her blog. She’s Stephanie Henry, Traffic reporter for Toronto’s liveliest morning show, Breakfast Television. Drawn to media at an ear...

Imagine spending 35 years at the top of your career and suddenly let go. Bell Media didn’t renew 58-year -old Veteran Canadian Journalist, Lisa LaFlamme, former chief anchor, and senior editor of CTV National News contract, when executives opted to take the newscast in “ a different direction.” Blind-sided by their “business decision” , LaFlamme spoke out publicly about her dismissal, and went vir...

Imagine being sent away by your mother as a child and wondering if you would ever see her or your father again.  That’s what happed to Jane Litwack and her sisters when all three young Jews escaped Nazism, making their way from Czechoslovakia to Holland to England aboard the Kinder Transport to reside with a foster family and rebuild their lives – all thanks to British humanitarian, Nicholas Winto...

Janette’s TV & Janette’s TV Podcast special holiday treat, behind the scenes at Nickelback LIVE in concert from 2023 TIFF. Wishing you and yours the happiest holidays and best 2024! We’ll be back January 8th with all new episodes. In the meantime, be sure to follow me on Instagram to check out JTV Instagram LIVE Short, our newest series featuring speakers, book authors, coaches, consultants, a...

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Have you ever been involved in a scandal or the subject of idle gossip? How did you cope?   Wicked Little Letters is a 2023 British black comedy mystery film directed by Thea Sharrock and written by Jonny Sweet. Set to be released in 2024, the film stars Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in the lead roles, along with Anjana Vasan, Malachi Kirby, Eileen Atkins and Timothy Spall in supporting roles....

Have you ever been so disgusted by something that you felt compelled to take action to change it and you? “LEE” is a biopic movie starring Kate Winslet that tells the story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, an American fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. The movie, set to be released in 2024, covers the most significant de...

Imagine lying in a hospital during COVID, dealing with serious health issues and being told to abort your unborn child. Prior to her receiving a kidney transplant in 2022 from her sister-in-law, that's what doctors at Kingston Health Sciences Center in Kingston, Ontario, Canada advised Sarah Albert & her husband Adam, to do Despite not being genetically disposed to the disease or experien...

Have you ever taken a stand or gone to battle for something you strongly believed in? Written by Lucinda Coxon & Nick Drake, the movie ONE LIFE is based on the book, “If it’s not impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton” by Barbara Winton. In wide release January 2024, the movie tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker who, on the eve of World War II, saved...

Have you ever lost faith, hope, or courage? Felt like you didn’t belong? Or wished you could pick your family like you do your friends?   Set in Montreal in the 1980’s and told from the perspective of an orphaned girl with a strong-will (played by Keris Hope Hill), Rosie is a ground-breaking, bilingual, Indigenous, queer, Canadian movie written, directed, & produced by Gail Maurice. It stars c...

In this interview, I speak with Vincent Ménard and Mathieu Ardon Ktistakis, writers and producers and Vincent star of the Short Film Trial – a dark comedy-thriller, featured in 2023’s Vaughan International Film Festival, International Block 1 Screenings. The film depicts a lone hiker during one of his trips into the wilderness and the macabre discovery he makes that transformed his tranquil weeken...