Dear readers:

I posted the first Watchable list on April 29, 2020, just over a month into the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time, not only was the entire world upside down, my professional world was in disarray. I had just been moved from my role as the Toronto Star’s deputy editor of Entertainment (now renamed Culture) to a new editing desk and it appeared I would no longer be allowed to write about TV for the Star.

As stated at the top of this blog page, I love television. I have loved it ever since I was a kid watching “The Brady Bunch” and “The Partridge Family” (luckily, my tastes have evolved since then). The idea of no longer being able to write about it was incomprehensible, so I started this blog with the idea of posting weekly reviews and occasional interviews, and keeping my hand in the game.

The interviews didn’t really materialize because the Star decided to keep using my services as a part-time TV writer, but I kept up the weekly reviews, missing very few weeks over the last three years.

I did this by working seven days a week: five days as a full-time editor and part-time writer for the Star, screening and writing about shows for this blog pretty much every Saturday and Sunday.

It’s been a labour of love, an exhausting one but manageable.

That is no longer the case. I am back in the Star’s Culture department, where I have taken on more responsibility for both the writing and assigning of TV stories, and that means my work for the Star sometimes bleeds into my weekends.

I realized over the last couple of very busy weeks that I can no longer carve out the time to give the Watchable list the attention I feel it deserves.

I had hoped to go out with a bang rather than a whimper with one last good list, but I barely had time to fit in four episodes of “Dead Ringers” (April 21, Prime Video, which would have been the Show of the Week) and a couple of “SLIP!” (April 21, Roku, which would have been a Short Take).

Television will continue to be a huge part of my life. I will still be watching as many new shows as I can manage, but I’ll be writing about them exclusively in the Star, at least for the next while.

I still plan to recap shows in the “Bachelor” franchise here, however, so check back May 9 for a post about “Bachelor in Paradise Canada.”

Until then, happy TV watching!