SCTV, Prime Video<\/p>\n
Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n From left: Eugene Levy, Catherine O\u2019Hara, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin and John Candy in Second City Television, which is getting its streaming debut on Prime.Photo courtesy of The Second City, Inc.\/Supplied<\/p>\n In 1978, The Globe and Mail\u2019s television critic Blaik Kirby wrote an article headlined \u201cHope for a new kind of TV comedy\u201d about Canadian talent-led challenges to the \u201crigidly conservative\u201d American TV comedy establishment (Bob Hope, Johnny Carson) and the rise of sitcoms (\u201cthe situation generally much more prominent than the comedy\u201d). <\/p>\n One show Kirby admired was Second City Television \u2013 a small-screen spinoff from Toronto\u2019s sketch-comedy troupe that had, at that point, aired 26 episodes on a sporadic schedule. \u201cThat series is satire, and often daring satire, and satire which derides the most sacred cow of them all, television,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n You know all the legends SCTV spawned: Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, the late greats Catherine O\u2019Hara and John Candy. But for years it\u2019s been hard to track down the actual series, outside of YouTube clips.<\/p>\n So don\u2019t say Amazon never did anything for us on its path to global domination: On Tuesday, all 135 episodes became available to stream for the first time on Prime Video, and only here in Canada. <\/p>\n Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Citytv+<\/p>\n Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n Perhaps the primary appeal of Law and Order: Toronto (which stars Kathleen Munroe, left, and Aden Young) is its setting.Steve Wilkie\/Supplied<\/p>\n Toronto ended 2025 with the fewest number of murders in the city since 1986. Perhaps the city\u2019s Law & Order spinoff is sating the blood lust of locals? <\/p>\n The third season premiere (March 5 on CITY-TV, then streaming on Citytv+) is particularly lurid, with a serial killer hunting models during fashion week. <\/p>\n As know-it-all Detective Sergeant Henry Graff, Aden Young goes full Shatner in his scenery-chewing questioning of a suspect. Co-star Kathleen Munroe, meanwhile, suggests more quiet complexity as Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman.<\/p>\n The opening scene takes place in New York \u2013 a squandered opportunity for a crossover, but also a reminder that the fact this Law & Order isn\u2019t normally set there is its primary appeal. I personally enjoyed the hyper-specificity of a 2025 Toronto recycling and garbage pickup calendar consulted by Graff and Bateman in the episode. I looked at the screen and thought: That\u2019s my trash!<\/p>\n The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs & Who Has Control, Paramount+<\/p>\n Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n Cindy Eckert\u2019s quest to get the \u201cfemale Viagra\u201d, flibanserin, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contrasted with the fast-tracked approval of erectile dysfunction drugs in The Pink Pill.Supplied<\/p>\n Opening, appropriately, with a blast of a certain electro-clash track by Peaches with an unprintable title, this new documentary directed by Montreal\u2019s Aisling Chin-Yee compares and contrasts the fast-tracked approval of erectile-dysfunction drugs in the late 1990s with the decades-long process it took to get flibanserin on the market in the U.S. to treat \u201chypoactive sexual desire disorder\u201d in women.<\/p>\n The Pink Pill is the first project from Docs for Change, a collaboration between Toronto-based studio Catalyst and the philanthropic arm of the Canadian undergarment brand Knix. But it\u2019s solely focused south of the border on pharmaceutical entrepreneur Cindy Eckert\u2019s quest to get the \u201cfemale Viagra\u201d Addyi \u2013 the brand name inspired by a Grey\u2019s Anatomy character \u2013 past the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Eckert and other talking heads believe \u201cthe pink pill\u201d was treated to a sexist, paternalist double standard along the way.<\/p>\n While Chin-Yee\u2019s film makes this case convincingly enough, the candid testimonials from women (and their partners) about the significance of their sex lives elevate it above pharmaceutical ad. Watch the doc \u2013 but talk to your doc afterward.<\/p>\n It Was Just An Accident, Mubi<\/p>\n Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n A still from It Was Just An Accident, one of two nominees for the best international feature film Oscar now streaming on the service Mubi.Les Films Pelleas\/Supplied<\/p>\n This humanist, often humorous and frequently theatrical thriller, filmed secretly in Iran by director Jafar Panahi, has its exclusive Canadian streaming debut on March 6 on Mubi \u2013 the same streaming service where you\u2019ll find Brazil\u2019s The Secret Agent, another nominee for best international feature film at the Oscars.<\/p>\n Panahi\u2019s film concerns a group of survivors of regime repression. Auto mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) abducts a man he believes was his torturer in prison, but his lack of complete certainty leads him to take his one-legged captive on a wild road trip.<\/p>\n A peek at unseen, furtively free parts of Iranian society, and the film\u2019s exploration of the old Aeschylean questions about cycles of violence, are as pertinent as ever. The Globe and Mail\u2019s Barry Hertz called it<\/a> \u201ca miracle of a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n Rooster, Crave<\/p>\n