John Doyle (born 1957) is a Canadian writer who was a television critic at The Globe and Mail from 2000 until his retirement in 2022.

Early life

John Doyle was born in 1957 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to Canada in 1980.

Career

Doyle was first hired by The Globe and Mail to write for Broadcast Week, the paper's weekly television listings, as a columnist. In 2000, he was appointed the newspaper's daily television critic. An article he published in 2010 argued that the Giller Prize and Gemini Awards were elitist. In a 2017 review of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Doyle called Dan Levy "fey". Levy, and a CBC critic, argued that Doyle's use of the term was homophobic.

Bibliography

See also

  • List of newspaper columnists

References

  • Author page at Random House of Canada
  • Audio interview re: A Great Feast of Light: June 2007
  • Columns at The Globe and Mail