You’ve done it again, haven’t you? You’ve left your Christmas shopping till the last minute. Lucky for you Cloverdale Mall is on extended hours and there’s plenty of free parking. If you still have a TV fan on your list, and they’ve been especially good this year, here are five DVD box set suggestions pre-tested
Nice to see Late Night with Jimmy Fallon pay tribute to a classic. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s On First?” routine gets a new shine here, with “Who” and “What” getting in on the gag. While the basic “Baseball Sketch” predates Abbott & Costello, the famous comedy team performed the routine for years before fully committing
Meant to flag this earlier, but for the next two weeks, GSN is back airing “black and white overnight” episodes of of two classic panel shows. What’s My Line? and I’ve Got a Secret will air weeknights starting at 2 a.m. ET, so set those PVRs. Louis Armstrong is the celebrity mystery guest on the Tuesday
OMG!!! I posted a recap on the final ever episode of Gossip Girl for TheStar.com. Is there no limit to what I will watch on TV for money? No, not around Christmas bill-paying time there isn’t.I was pretty sure Gossip Girl had been cancelled four or five years earlier when the Star editor called and
Ever wanted to make your own Fox network Christmas card? Now you can with this handy little app, send to critics this week via email. You can choose which Fox stars you want to party with om your card. I chose all the Canadians, ‘natch.This gift of festive cheer follows a terrible bit of timing
Nice to see Michael Skupin make it all the way to the final three on Sunday night’s season finale of Survivor. The 51-year-old did a face plant into a fire pit nearly 12 years ago on the second edition of Survivor and had to be airlifted out of the Australian outback. For some reason, he
Calgary rancher John Scott has been wrangling horses for film and TV producers for over 40 years. The Calgary Stampede veteran is currently head wrangler on CBC’s Heartland and was responsible for finding and training the emaciated horses used on CTV’s The Horses of McBride (premiering Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CTV). In the
Many years ago, this comedy team I know, Bullock & Brioux, worked a funeral. A friend’s father had passed away, and the family had gathered, and they needed to laugh. So a set was performed in a crowded living room.Bullock & Brioux never got bigger laughs, or put on a more rewarding show.People, as has