HOT

Eastern Promises
Both because Cronenberg’s latest will open the London and San Sebastian festivals following its bow at TIFF, and for that murder scene in the sauna. We hear good, disturbing and homoerotic things.

NOT

CSI: NY
The spin-off’s spin-off has been given the heave-ho off History Television by the CRTC following a paperwork fight between AAC and the WGC. Somewhere, Maureen Parker is laughing.

NEXT

16:9
CBC will switch its news programming to the HD-friendly aspect ratio in September. Pictures will have the sides cut off in order to fit on old TVs in English Canada, while the French will get letterboxing. Time to buy a new set!