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.

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

[citation needed] In 2005, Doyle published his first book, the memoir A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland, and the book The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness, and Meaning of Soccer.

[3] An article he published in 2010 argued that the Giller Prize and Gemini Awards were elitist.

[4] In a 2017 review of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Doyle called Dan Levy "fey".