Aidan Quinn in Alberta last March with MacKenzie Porter and friends TURNER VALLEY, Alta–Canadian actors are always getting busted in Hollywoodfor their accents. Nothing causes a director in L.A.to yell, “Cut!” faster than an “oot” or “aboot.” Yet you seldom hear aboot an American actor attempting a Canadian accent. So thanks for coming oot, Aidan
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, so this week on CHML, Scott Thompson asks about the big sell out involving our favourite animated Christmas specials.Specifically, we talk about those Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer ads that are playing this month during other holiday specials. Scott says the campaign features the Aflec health insurance duck
If you cover TV in Canada, sooner or later you’ll run into a Hogan. Saw Gabriel last June on the set of A Christmas Song, one of three Hallmark holiday TV-movies shot in and around Hamilton, Ontario, last June. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on CTV Two and the Hallmark Channel and repeats Dec.
22 Minutes’ creator Mary Walsh and original player Greg Thomey both return in Tuesday night’s hour-long holiday episode. In its 20th season, the Halifax-based CBC comedy has been a bright spot in an otherwise challenging fall for CBC, where hockey is missed like nowhere else.East Coast icon Gordon Pinsent–flown in from St. John’s where he
From Friday’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: All I know about “Playing for Keeps” is Gerry Butler plays a Scottish soccer player who moves to America to teach kids soccer. What I think speaks volumes is that they don’t put soccer anywhere on the poster. To most Americans, soccer is just warm hockey.
Thursday night at 10 p.m. brings the beginning of the end for Flashpoint. The two-part series finale, “Keep the Peace,” concludes next Thurs., Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. on CTV.The shot-in-Toronto drama has been topping the 1.6 million viewers per week mark again as it heads off air and into syndication. A total of 75
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know more about that shot of me and Batman (posted a few days ago). I tell the story behind the picture, and ramble on about why the 1966-68 superhero series has never been released to home video or the DVD market.Scott also wanted to know if the hockey
Does CTV’s media site logo promoting their just-announced Amazing Race Canada look familiar to you? It did to comedy writer/producer Gary Pearson (That’s So Weird, 22 Minutes). He posted the above illustration on Facebook which shows the similarities between the new Race logo and CBC’s on-air logo from the late ’50s, early-to-mid ’60s.Not that the