I did not meet, and have no first-hand stories, about Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who passed away Tuesday. The 80-year-old died in a London hospital just a week or so after the band announced that they would proceed with their next tour without him. I was at a 2003 Television Critics Association HBO
What is vying with naming Mike Richards the new host of Jeopardy for Worst Call in Television for 2021? Global’s decision to announce, before it aired, that this would be the fifth and final season of Private Eyes. The Jason Priestley/Cindy Sampson Toronto-based detective drama has owned the summer of ’21, averaging over a million
Mike Richards is out as host of Jeopardy. A mere nine days after being announced as Alex Trebek’s successor, and right before he was set to start taping episodes, Mike Richards resigned. It appears, however, that he keeps his job as executive producer. Question: How does he even show his face around the studio? Here
I’ve been starring at a lot of screens lately trying to keep up with this summer’s virtual Television Critics Association press tour sessions. Many of the bigger names, in terms of talent, available in these zoom calls, have been showcased by a streaming service that’s been around a while but doesn’t cross the border directly
The final week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games dominated the English Canadian Top-30 weekly ratings, although it missed the No. 1 spot on the list due to a technicality. For some reason, Numeris measures the CTV Evening News from Monday to Friday only, and then breaks out the weekend edition of the same
Another sign that the old broadcast network era is finally at an end. It was announced on Tuesday that Harbor Group International has entered into a definitive agreement with ViacomCBS for the purchase of 51 West 52nd St. in Midtown Manhattan. The cost: US$760 million. The 38-story office tower was known as the CBS Building
Thirty-two years after her death in 1989 at 77, Lucille Ball continues to surprise. Sirius XM recently launched a re-edited package of radio show conversations Ball had back in 1964-65. Re-imagined as a modern podcast, these ten-minute radio show episodes have been kept is a vault for years and number in the hundreds. Stitched together,
The brioux.tv August calendar page has been updated to include, among other things, tonight’s surprise addition of four new episodes of Grace & Frankie. Production on the comedy, which is entering its seventh and final season, has been delayed due to safety protocols during the pandemic. No sense putting stars Jane Fonda, 83, and Lily