Life in this so called Golden Era of Television. (A premise I refuse to accept or even sell.) Here are some key full series premieres you’ll totally wanna #SetTheVCR for.
All times EST the best time zone, ever!
Saturday, March 1
3:00 a.m. – Netflix Canada: Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1 (Canadian Premiere)
Sunday, March 2
3:00 a.m. – Tubi: The Magicians: Season 1-5 (Full Series)
Tuesday, March 4
3:00 a.m. – Tubi: Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982 (The CW Series – Tubi Premiere)
9:00 p.m. – Disney+: Daredevil: Born Again: Season 1
Thursday, March 6
3:00 a.m. – Britbox: Douglas is Cancelled: Limited Series (North American Premiere)
9:00 p.m. – ABC: Doctor Odyssey: Season 1 (Mid-Season Premiere)
Tuesday, March 11
3:00 a.m. – HBO Max: Kobe: The Making of a Legend (CNN Original Series – HBO Premiere)
Thursday, March 13
3:00 a.m. – Prime Video: The Wheel of Time: Season 3
3:00 a.m. – Peacock & Crave: Long Bright River: Limited Series (Canadian Premiere)
Friday, March 14
3:00 a.m. – Disney+ Canada: The Hardy Boys: Season 3 (Canadian Premiere)
3:00 a.m. – Crave: We The North: From Prehistoric (Canadian Premiere)
3:00 a.m. – Crave: Inbound (Canadian Premiere)
Sunday, March 16
6:00 p.m. – CBS: Selection Sunday (2025 March Madness)
Tuesday, March 18
3:00 a.m. – Prime Video Canada: Phantom 2040: Season 1-2 (Full Series)
6:40 p.m. – CBS: First Four (2025 March Madness)
Wednesday, March 19
3:00 a.m. – Disney+ Canada: UFOs: Investigating the Unknown: Season 2 (Canadian Premiere)
Thursday, March 20
2:20 p.m. – CBS: First Round: March 20-21 (2025 March Madness)
Friday, March 21
3:00 a.m. – TVO Docs YouTube Channel: Your Tomorrow (Ontario Place Documentary; See Below)
3:00 a.m. – Hulu: Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys (A&E Docuseries – Hulu Premiere)
Monday, March 24
9:00 p.m. – W Network: Laid: Season 1 (Canadian Premiere)
Tuesday, March 25
9:00 p.m. – HBO Max: Lockerbie: The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (CNN Original Series – HBO Premiere)
Saturday, March 29
3:00 p.m. – CNBC: Sport: On the Record: Season 1
Sunday, March 30
8:00 p.m. – Fox: The Simpsons: Season 36 (Mid-Season Premiere)
Monday, March 31
3:00 a.m. – Peacock: Three’s Company: Season 1-8 (Full Series)
On March 21st and 23rd following sold out screenings at TIFF24 and other fantastic film festivals Your Tomorrow (the Ontario Place documentary) comes to YouTube and TV.
When it first opened in 1971, Ontario Place was designed to reflect all that the citizens of Ontario (and Canada) embodied:
our heritage,
our diversity,
our creativity and
our future potential.
Your Tomorrow comes from the following phrase from an 1969 Ontario Place promotional brochure for the theme park, built on four islands made of reclaimed land on Lake Ontario:
“Ontario Place is a mirror to show you yourself. Your heritage. Your land. Your work. Your creativity. And your tomorrow.”
Ontario Place was hope and civic pride but as a symbol it mirrors Detroit’s car factories with those industrious assembly lines. That was then…this is now.
The honest truth is…we simply stopped going to a lot of these places.
Yes, record stores struggled as music went online…but vinyl also came back. We stopped going.
Honest Ed’s struggled because we enjoyed the cheapness of the dollar store and the gentle convenience of Amazon Prime shipping. We stopped going.
By 2012 Ontario Place was closed by the Government of Ontario after years of diminishing attendance and revenue. We stopped going.
(Think about it…if you have kids in the last 20 years or so…did you ever consider taking em to Ontario Place? You took kids to Canada’s Wonderland, Great Wolf Lodge, the Islands…there’s a distinct generation that has never experienced Ontario Place. Or Honest Ed’s.)
That’s why Ontario Place is not a Doug Ford issue. Ford was first elected in 2018. Most certainly, Ford is an issue in the future but he’s not the primary reason why Ontario Place closed in 2012. This is an us problem. We stopped going.
We made choices along the way.
Maybe we believed these locations would be around forever.
Maybe they were mismanaged.
Maybe everything isn’t meant to last forever but just for a season or two.
All valid.
So is the simple truth: we stopped going.
Your Tomorrow silently captures Ontario Place in this limbo phase…stuck between a bright past and murky future.
Imagine the meditative calm before a neighborhood experiences life-altering gentrification.
March 21: Your Tomorrow streams on the TVO Docs YouTube channel and the TVO website (across Canada).
March 23: 9:00 p.m. – TVO Channel: Your Tomorrow (Broadcast Premiere; Ontario only)
That is a lot of TV for March, 2025! Whew.
MLB’s Opening Day is Thursday, March 27. Who shall stand and who shall fall? Will the Dodgers repeat?
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Sammy Younan is the affable host of My Summer Lair podcast: think NPR’s Fresh Air meets Kevin Smith: interviews & impressions on Pop Culture.
