I was thrown in the slammer today on the set of Rookie Blue. The Global/ABC cop show is in production on a fourth season, with 13 new episodes scheduled to begin airing next spring. The cast and crew were working on episode five today as I toured the massive stealth studio in Mississauga, just a
Three on a Match: Deb DiGiovanni, Darrin Rose and Sean Cullen It’s always dicey when you try to reboot a favourite from TV’s past. GSN tried reviving the classic panel show I’ve Got a Secret in 2006 and it stayed a secret.Starting today at 8 p.m. ET, the Comedy Network launches an all new, Canadian
Eventual X Factor champ Carly Rose hits high note, puberty The reason why few new network reality shows break through, I’m convinced, is that even the most ardent fan of the genre not named Murtz can only faithfully follow two or at the most three a week.I’ve held this view for a while, but it
It was way back in the ’80s when the original Beauty and the Beast crawled out of the sewers and into viewer’s living rooms.Tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW and Showcase, a new version of the series emerges. The sewers seem too good for this howlingly bad update, which is shot in Toronto, not for
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if I’m enjoying the fall TV season so far. To be honest, not so much. I can’t remember a fall season where I did not care if I never saw a second episode of any new network series.We’ve already had the first casualty of the fall: Made in Jersey,
Thanks to artist in the family Katie Brioux for the logo, above Welcome to TV on Film, a website that grew out of a 16mm film collection. As friends and readers of TV Feeds My Family may know, I’ve been collecting 16mm films for years. Sixteen millimeter is those large reels that, way back in
Two of the better new shows in a mediocre season launch tonight: Arrow and Nashville, along with one of the worst new shows, Chicago Fire. The CW, which is behind shot-in-Vancouver Arrow, tends to launch all their new shows a little later since it apparently doesn’t matter if anybody watchers. Arrow delivers as a well made
President Obama in happier times with Dave on Sept. 18. John Paul Filo/CBS Years ago it was said that if you lost Walter Cronkite, you lost the White House.The “most trusted” CBS news anchor certainly played a part in ending Lyndon Johnson’s political career. Even more lethal, it could be argued, was being the steady butt