New ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Aims To Teach Viewers About Shapes, Colors https://theonion.com/new-ted-lasso-season-aims-to-teach-viewers-about-shapes-colors/
J. Kelly Nestruck
@nestruck.bsky.social
The Globe and Mail television critic and recovering theatre critic. I'm gonna bleet about baseball sometimes. Find me by email at knestruck@globeandmail.com. 🇨🇦
Probably a coincidence… but just turned on Sportsnet+ and they’d changed the Ted Lasso ad I saw about 25 times this weekend and spend the first paragraphs complaining about here.
J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 19h agoTed Lasso’s return is about getting the gang back together... and everything else is paint by numbers. This moment in professional women’s sports deserved better. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Ah, Carney was using "interesting" like a critic pigeon-holed by a member of the public while coming out of a play.
Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie.bsky.social · 13h ago"The mooted ideas for Billy Bishop are 'interesting' in a broader context," Carney says, in trying to explain why he'd previously called the expansion proposal "interesting."
Oh, I like the reference to Pluribus in this review. Alice, the slightly bristly new assistant coach, is like Carol Sturka in a show where everyone has had their brain Lasso-ed.
Angie Han@ajhan.bsky.social · 15h agoif hating on ted lasso, the tv equivalent of widdle baby kitten with big wet anime eyes, makes me a bad person, then i am a bad person sorry
Another shot of that scene. Impossible to overstate how impressed my Mom was to see me sitting on TV beside Lloyd Robertson at the newsdesk. #RIPLloydRobertson
Brent Butt@brentbutt.bsky.social · 16h agoSitting at the CTV Newsdesk beside Lloyd Robertson and doing our silly little scene together was one of the finest and most surreal honours of my life. He was our first 'celeb cameo' on Corner Gas, and once he'd done it we were legitimized. Because no one was more legit than him. #RIPLloydRobertson
Happy to hear from a mom reader who mutes the TV every time the Ted Lasso ad that begins with that guy saying: "Too bad you're coaching a bunch of girls" comes on while she's watching with her kid. Can't imagine an ad with a "joke" that's just a racist comment, shrugged off, on constant repeat.
J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 19h agoTed Lasso’s return is about getting the gang back together... and everything else is paint by numbers. This moment in professional women’s sports deserved better. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Ted Lasso’s return is about getting the gang back together... and everything else is paint by numbers. This moment in professional women’s sports deserved better. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Ted Lasso returns for a fourth season – and sets back women’s sports a decade
The subtext of this season is: Too bad Ted isn’t rejoining the men’s team
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A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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Straight down the middle It went straight down the middle Then it started to hook just a wee, wee bit That's when my caddie lost sight of it That little white pellet has never been found to this day But it went straight down the middle like they say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOmU...
Straight Down The Middle
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Glad to see the NYT (unlike certain politicians I could name) explaining the full context behind California's declining wine sales, rather than simply blaming Canada.
Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards
The rise and fall of pinot noir symbolizes the larger struggles of the wine industry as younger generations turn to other beverages.
nytimes.com
We've had three months of discourse now about the first three months of a new law. 🙄 New info: 50% who kept an accounts said platforms never them asked to verify their age. This is why eSafety is investigating possible non-compliance of Meta, Google, Snap and TikTok, govt just doubled fines.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A sign ownership sees the Blue Jays as contenders again in the near future. This season has been a bit baffling given the components.
Ben Nicholson-Smith@bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 3d agoIn Jose Soriano, the Blue Jays add a long-term rotation upgrade who sits 97 and induces a ton of ground balls. A significant move for a team that needed answers on the pitching side www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...
Today we learn which publications will and which won't publish Big Pussy in a headline. That character's death was one of the most impactful in TV history because he was so soulfully portrayed by Vincent Pastore. So long Pastore, and thanks for all the fish. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Vincent Pastore, known for playing a mobster in Sopranos, dead at 80
Pastore appeared in movies dating back to the 1980s including roles in big films such as Goodfellas and Awakenings
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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I've been in Stratford a couple times now for the World in a Weekend festival and it's such a lovely set-up for kids. Mostly free puppet shows and lots of crafting/play stations set up outdoors on banks of the river. Highly recommend for parents of 3-10! www.springworksfestival.ca/_files/ugd/f...
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J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 5d agoTaking in some highbrow theatre in Stratford, Ontario.
Taking in some highbrow theatre in Stratford, Ontario.
A proposal we can all get behind, for Parker. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Conservative MP, Poilievre call for new framework for public alerts after Calgary boy’s death
11-year-old Parker, who had autism and was non-verbal, was found dead after wandering from his daycare home in Calgary
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It's been hard to live in Toronto during this decade of disdain from Queen's Park. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ontario accuses Ottawa of bowing to ‘small fringe group’ on island airport expansion
Province is pushing to allow commercial jets at Billy Bishop despite vocal opposition from Torontonians
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Wild that both Shania Twain and Avril Lavigne got Lyme disease.
UPDATE from Canadian Heritage on percentages pursued from US streamers under the Online Streaming Act:
Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · last wk.June 14: Heritage Minister Miller says Ottawa will pursue undefined contribution of US streamers under Online Streaming Act. "My colleagues in Bloc assume that it will go down to zero. That isn't the case" July 17: AG letter says Ottawa's "intention is to eliminate the base contribution requirement"
As an LRB print subscriber, I look forward to reading Emily Wilson thoughts on The Odyssey as soon as it arrives at my home sometime before my son Telemachus becomes a man…
TIFF TV lineup seems solid from Yaga's world premiere to the new season of Slow Horses. tiff.net/press/news/t...
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