Here’s good news for Jon Stewart fans — and who’s not a Jon Stewart fan? The multiple Emmy Award-winning comedian has signed a multi-year partnership with AppleTV+ to return to television with a current affairs series. The 57-year-old New Yorker hosted The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2015. This new project is
An uneventful week, apart from the political intrigue south of the border, led to a fairly predictable Top 10 in English Canada according to Numeris Live+7 data released Tuesday. Sitting atop the weekly list once again was The Masked Singer, thriving in Canada this fall with usual timeslot rival Survivor shut down for the rest
How do you keep daytime TV shows rooted in live studio interactions going in this era of safety measures and social distancing? These were the challenges facing CBS and the producers of The Price is Right and Let’s Make a Deal. Both shows return with new, post-COVID episodes Tuesday night in the first of a
You’d think the election was in Canada. On Thursday, an overnight, estimated 1,978,000 Canadians watched the final US presidential debate live on CNN. That will top 2 million and be the No. 1 show in English Canada for the week by the time the Live+7 overnights are tallied. Canadians not watching the one hour and
Hard to imagine, but John Travolta passed on the role of Forrest Gump. Johnny Depp was John Hughes first choice to play Ferris Bueller. Al Pacino had first shot at being Han Solo in Star Wars. Casting “What if’s” also occur in television. Tiffani Thiessen auditioned for Rachel Green on Friends. Matt LeBlanc was offered
Tonight, Thursday, Oct. 22, marks the sixth season premiere of CBC’s Battle of the Blades. “I’m just sick that it’s also the night of the presidential debate,” says Ron MacLean, back as host of Battle of the Blades (a job he’ll share this time with singer-actress Keshia Chante). “I don’t know how you don’t watch
How, you ask, are the new CBC shows doing so far this season? Funny you should ask. Given how the private broadcasters have been hampered so far this fall as several big-budget US imports have been held back due to COVID-19 production slowdowns, CBC seemed to be looking at a less competitive landscape. The constant
Those blockheads at ABC have Boomers all a Twitter. They’ve decided not to air A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in prime time on network TV in 2020. Curse you, Disney executive chairman Robert Iger! It’s been 55 years since A Charlie Brown Christmas first charmed kids and parents in
I watched an interesting TV show Wednesday night, all about teachers using television to conduct remote learning classes to students at home. No, it wasn’t a live zoom demo. It was an episode of a 66-year-old TV series. The Peabody award winning series was Mister Peepers, starring Wally Cox. The still charming, classroom-based comedy was
By the time the British spy drama The Avengers made its way to North American TV screens in the mid-’60s, I was not yet into hot babes. More like Hot Wheels. My TV thrills were found watching Batman, and perhaps Get Smart! and Lost in Space — not some imported, tongue-in-cheek James Bond hour for
Frequent visitors to this site will know that I collect TV shows on 16mm film. Older readers will remember this format from high school, when pizza-sized reels of film were threaded on a projector, the lights would go out and everybody took a quick nap. I stayed awake, and never lost my fascination with the
When I was a kid the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup so often it was boring. One player who was never boring, however, was Eddie Shack. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He could score goals, he had the knack. He also had a nose for value. He was more animated than Peter Puck
I tried, I really tried to pay tribute to Regis Philbin Saturday on CTV News Channel. Between me being at a remote, Internet-challenged cottage and some snafus back at the studio in Toronto, however, it just wouldn’t happen. What we finally had to settle for was me filing my comments over the phone. That’s how