Rob Ford, Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy were all obvious targets as the Air Farce aimed their F-Bombs in another New Years Eve special taping, held Thursday and Friday in Toronto. I’ve been to at least a dozen Farce tapings, most with my son, Dan, and it is now as much a part of Christmas
New Von Trapp`s Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer. Will Hart/NBC Late in posting this on a Saturday night, but if you live on the West coast, NBC is rerunning The Sound of Music Live. They`re even bumping their annual airing of It`s a Wonderful Life to make room for the production. (The Frank Capra classic
This week, Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s CHML had a few questions about the TV coverage of the passing of Nelson Mandela. Scott asks where this ranks on the big TV event scale. I think we’re in such a temporal age that I doubt we’ll be talking much about Mandela once the usual 48- or 72-hour
NEW YORK–Some of Manhattan’s best dressed matrons were squealing and carrying on like Justin Bieber fans Thursday night in a salute to Downton Abbey. A screening of the fourth season premiere, which will air January 5th on PBS, was held at the New York Times Building Lobby Auditorium. After the screening, Times columnist Bill Carter
NEW YORK–The Big Apple has become one big TV factory. Several network and cable hits are shot in greater New York, including the reason I’m back for the fourth time this year, The Americans. The FX series is heading into a second season and hosting international reporters for cast interviews Thursday. It shoots in Brooklyn,
Bank robbers Holiday Grainger and Emile Hirsche A two-part TV-movie? What is this–1985??No, it’s Bonnie & Clyde and you can tell it’snot the ’80s because its airing over three networks at once: History, Lifetime and A&E. Part Two airs Monday night at 9 p.m.I spoke last week with executive producers John Rice and Joe Batteer
If you ever have the good fortune to get picked up at the Vancouver airport in a Lincoln Town Car, pay close attention to the driver. He could be a rock star.Earlier this month, the folks behind When Calls The Heart, a turn-of-the-century family drama coming in the spring to Super Channel, kindly arranged to
Welcome to Coal Valley, pardner LANGLEY, B.C.–This week I took a trip about five hours west and 100 years back in time. This happened Tuesday on location with the cast and crew of When Calls the Heart. The family drama, set in a Western Canadian coal town circa 1910, will premiere late winter/early spring on