Daniel Richler
BookTelevision Editor-in-Chief
As Editor-in-Chief of the world's only 24-hour literary TV channel, BookTelevision, Daniel Richler knows all there is to know about the unholy marriage of books and the box. For anyone interested in the perils of modern mass media, the myth of declining literacy and the dumbing-down of TV, Daniel has innumerable comic anecdotes, cautionary tales and illuminating stories to tell.
As Editor-in-Chief of the world's only 24-hour literary TV channel, BookTelevision, Daniel Richler knows all there is to know about the unholy marriage of books and the box. For anyone interested in the perils of modern mass media, the myth of declining literacy and the dumbing-down of TV, Daniel has innumerable comic anecdotes, cautionary tales and illuminating stories to tell.
Prior to BookTelevision, Daniel Richler was the Gemini Award-winning host of CBC Newsworld's Big Life. He filed subjective reports from the underground, giving iconoclasts and rebels a fair shake long before they hit the mainstream as he explored their divergent lifestyles. Richler also served as Creative Head of Arts Programming at TVOntario, where he conceived, hosted and executive-produced the enduring Gemini Award-nominated literary series Imprint. He began his television career as host, then producer, of CityTV's The New Music and then became Chief Arts Correspondent for CBC TV's The Journal.
Aside from working tirelessly to promote the written word, Daniel Richler has also contributed to the print world, with his best-selling novel Kicking Tomorrow. He has written for numerous magazines and has been a pop culture commentator on CBC Radio's Morningside.
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The Canadians have proven that it can be done: I want my BookTV.
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Like Laura Miller, I want my BookTelevision, but unlike her, I've got it.
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March 2002Kicking Tomorrow
Eighteen-year-old Robbie Bookbinder is bummed out and bored, cut adrift in the mid-1970s – the decade he calls The Great Hangover. Sex feels outmoded, drugs don’t seem to deliver like they used to, and rock and roll’s a bust in tired old Montreal. Quebec’s arming up for a cultural revolution, and bike gangs are warring in the streets. In Robbie Bookbinder, we meet a character who embodies all the potential, self-delusion, and resilience of contemporary youth. All Robbie thinks he needs is a kick-start. What he gets is scared half to death, as he discovers that life only improves when you take a stand in it.
