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Jonathan Torrens is having an episode. . .65 of them in fact! In his new show TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens (TVtropolis), Gemini nominee and now in it's 3rd season,"TV's JT" spends an honest and hilarious half-hour a week dissecting all the goings-on and goings-wrong in the wide world of television.
Through stand up, streeters and sketch, Torrens gives the big picture on the small screen by focusing each episode on a different - but familiar - genre of TV. From Musical Shows like Glee, So You Think You Can Skate and Lose Weight (an homage to So You Think You Can Dance), to Go Away TV Parts 1 & 2 (shot on location in London, England) where you will get more bangers for your Buckinghams, TV's JT continues his satirical look at the various popular television genres.
About the Gemini Nomination
Jonathan Torrens’ hilarious performance in the episode titled “Freak Shows” has earned the series a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance in a hosted Stand-Up/Sketch Comedy Program or Series.
In this episode, viewers are treated to Torrens’ multiple personalities as he performs in sketches as Andy Ryan in “Normal Sized Man/ Tiny House”; Dennis McFurson in "Meet the McFursons"; and Bob Greenberg in "Now you see me, Now you still do.”
About Jonathan Torrens
Since launching his career as a host on CBC's Street Cents 20 years ago, Jonathan Torrens has grown up on TV. And from Jonovision to J-Roc to Joe Schmo, he's been a perennial presence in the Canadian TV landscape for two decades.There is no one better to channel misguided tele-visionaries through today's vast- sometimes terrifying- multi channel universe.
Who better to ask questions like: why aren't there shows that make us cry anymore like the Family Ties finale...or laugh like the last episode of Seinfeld ... or rejoice like the Murder She Wrote finale?
Now that reality television seems to be a permanent reality and appointment viewing is giving way to binge-watching seasons of Lost in a weekend, what is the future of TV?
For answers to these and more pressing questions for the TV junkie in all of us, tune in to TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens on TVtropolis season 3 every Friday night at 7pm on TVtropolis!
Produced in Halifax by Arcadia Entertainment in association with TVtropolis.
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