What happens when you pick up your Rogers Ignite xfinity remote and give the command, “Flavour”? Up pops two links on your screen: one for CORUS’s rebranded Flavour Channel and the other for Rogers’ newly-acquired Food Network. Sneaky, huh? And, no, it doesn’t work the other way. Utter “Food Network” and all you get is
Starting now, it will cost Canadians $23.99 to subscribe each month to Netflix’s premium service. That’s a three dollar increase, (their first in two years). The US-based media giant claims that this increase is needed, goes the release, “so that we can re-invest to further improve Netflix.” Plus CEO Ted Sarandos need a new hot
Looks like the Doctor is out at Paramount+ The streaming service confirmed this week that the reboot of the sitcom Frasier will not move forward there into a third season. Launched in October 2023, two 10-episode seasons were streamed. The reboot saw Kelsey Grammer, 69, return as Dr. Frasier Crane, this time working as a
Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports. A dozen years ago The Donald was just another tanned game show host when I interviewed him in his 26th floor office at Trump Tower in New York.
Back when Twin Peaks premiered in 1989, there were no little people speaking backwards on television. Plenty of double talk, but nothing even close to the nightmarish, fascinating world of David Lynch. The award-winning filmmaker, painter and artist passed away Jan. 15 after years of declining health due to emphysema after a lifetime of smoking.
Are you like me? Always looking for signs of life in the world of television comedy? Sick of dramas such as The Bear being nominated as Outstanding Comedy Series? Perhaps you have a pilot script that has HUGE LAFFS written all over it? The Banff World Media Festival announced Thursday that it has teamed up
Any debate over the best show in TV history would have dozens of candidates. But there is no debate over the single worst program in television history – The Jerry Springer Show. For 27 seasons and 3,891 lurid episodes, Jerry Springer lowered the TV bar, then dug a ditch and lowered the bar to hell.
Back when Twin Peaks premiered in 1989, there were no little people speaking backwards on television. Plenty of double talk, but nothing even close to the nightmarish, fascinating world of David Lynch. The award-winning filmmaker, painter and artist passed away Jan. 15 after years of declining health due to emphysema after a lifetime of smoking.
At one point during CNN’s cocktail coverage on New Year’s Eve, Anderson Cooper sobered up long enough to salute a news network mentor and friend: Aaron Brown. Brown, 76, an award-winning ABC and CNN news anchor and journalist, died December 29 in Washington. Part of a deep bench led by Peter Jennings at ABC News
Even as the year draws to a close, 2024 keeps taking them away from us. Jimmy Carter, America’s best ex-president, died Dec. 29 at 100. Olivia Hussey, famed for director Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo & Juliet” but also a lead in the shot-in-Canada slasher flick “Black Christmas,” gone two days earlier at 73. TCM always does
I was seven-years-old when Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer first landed on television. The time was December of 1964. The Beatles had broken big on Ed Sullivan that year and men were circling the Earth. The Toronto Maple Leafs were closing in on their third-straight Stanley Cup win. After 97 years as a nation, Canada was finally about
I had to search for it, through a few battered old laptop hard drives, but I’m glad I didn’t give up. Above is a shot of Mike Duffy, one of the bright lights of the Television Critics Association press tours, in his natural setting — surrounded by adoring peers. Look how happy everyone is in
Since the dawn of television, viewers have always wanted to be amazed. One who knew this was George Joseph Kresge, Jr., a.k.a. The Amazing Keskin. Billed as a mentalist with special powers of perception, Kreskin (born in 1935 in New Jersey) was one of those amazing TV distractions that tickled viewers in the late ’60s