NBC officially fired the gun on Jay Leno’s victory lap, announcing Wednesday that the No. 1 guy in late night will step away from The Tonight Show–this time presumably for good–next February. “JAY LENO ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE FROM SUCCESSFUL 22 YEAR RUN FROM NBC’S ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ IN SPRING 2014” reads the network release headline. Two
As Homer Simpson once said, “It’s funny ’cause it’s true.” Rumours about Jimmy Fallon taking over The Tonight Show have been swirling for months. There are reports out there it is a done deal, with Fallon moving Jay Leno’s show to New York.The above video shows the two comedians can still joke about the situation,
In a surprise move, the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission announced today it was granting Sun News network’s request to become a must-carry TV channel.“They just kept asking, over and over again,” CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais explained in Ottawa yesterday.Mandatory carriage means the little-watched news network will be forced on consumers in every household in Canada.
Easter is a time to rejoice and be glad–for free movie channel previews, am I right? The free window on the Hollywood Suite movie channels ends Sunday night at midnight, so better hurry if you’re going to sample the best deal in television. Rogers has the four movie channels–WarnerFilms, MGM Channel, Sony Movie Channel and AXN
Tatiana Maslany show great range in Orphan Black A few weeks ago I was down in the States and this Fox International publicist says to me, “I’m digging these shows you guys are making up there now, especially Lost Girl and Continuum. What’s going on up there and what else ya got?”I told her what I’ve
Reporter Minna Rhee kindly passed along this Global News Hour clip of Wednesday’s salute to 40 years of The Young and the Restless. From time to time, I get asked to appear on camera as a TV expert and always say yes, even if its about a genre I know less about, such as soap
Promo the Robotic reporter and Dave Thomas This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks about my blast-from-the-past meeting with Rocketship 7 host Dave Thomas. Scott got a kick out of seeing a photo of me and Thomas, who hosted the Buffalo, N.Y. children’s series from 1962 to 1978. In case you missed it, it’s all covered
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of The Young and the Restless. The daytime serial began on March 26, 1973–way back when President Richard Nixon was still in office. His successor, Gerald Ford, had a reason to watch for a while–his son, Doug, was a regular on the series. Now real life soap operas–like the one