This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if J.R. is gone for good on Dallas. The answer, of course, is yes. Bravo will miss him in Canada; the Canadian specialty channel scored a record 453,000 overnight viewers for Larry Hagman’s tribute episode Monday.We talk about a lot of other stuff; you can listen in here.
We’ve all heard the expression, “Put a sock in it.” MuchMusic has done just that, adding Ed the Sock to their long-running Video on Trial. Ed will be among the comedians making with the caustic comments targeted at videos from the ’90s on Wednesday’s show (8:30 p.m. ET on Much).The Sock used to do this
Can Dallas survive without Larry Hagman? That journey begins now Monday night, Dallas bids farewell to one of TV’s greatest villains.The episode (on TNT and Bravo in Canada at 9 p.m. ET) reunites some former cast members, including Ken Kercheval and Charlene Tilton, as friends and family gather to pay respects to Larry Hagman’s ultimate
Shepherd looking spa-tacular on The Client List Had fun this week working the phone with Cybill Shepherd. Known for telling it like it is, the former Moonlighting and Cybill star returns for a second season Sunday as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s mom on The Client List (Lifetime, 10 p.m. ET).Beautifully unaltered at 63, the former model
Fallon with Mariah Carey: ready for his Tonight Show coronation? On this week’s scintillating podcast, CHML’s Scott Thompson wants my take on rumours that NBC are dying to shove Jay Leno aside so Jimmy Fallon can take over the Tonight Show.It does seem as though Leno’s days on Tonight are numbered. He still wins in
Mads Mikkelsen is delicious as Hannibal Lector in the upcoming drama I’ve been busy jetting to TV sets so far this this year–The Americans in Brooklyn, Package Deal in Vancouver, Graceland in Ft. Lauderdale. So it was nice to just jump in the car and drive 20 minutes to the set of a new series launching
Yannick Bisson guests Tuesday night on an all-new This Hour Has 22 Minutes (8:30 p.m. ET, CBC). Bisson’s Murdoch Mysteries, which airs on Mondays, has been the success story of the season on CBC where it has quietly become the public broadcaster’s No. 1 drama. Surely an order for a seventh season will come any day. Bisson
Martin Short helped the Screenies double the Gemini take Whatever one thought of the merits of Sunday’s first annual Canadian Screen Awards, they were a winner in at least one area: ratings.The two-hour broadcast drew an overnight, estimated 756,000 viewers on CBC Sunday night, about double what the Gemini or Genie Award telecasts were able