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
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.