The folks at the Toronto Star have asked me to recap this week’s first three episodes of Season Three of The Voice. You’ll find the night one recap here among The Star’s on-line blogs. UPDATE: Here’s the Night Two recap.This is the “blind audition” part of the show, where judges Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Cee
Yes, it’s finally time to Go On.The 2012-13 TV season doesn’t officially begin for another week-and-a-half, but some new shows are already sneaking onto schedules. Tuesday night, for example, Matthew Perry’s new comedy Go On (9 p.m., NBC, Global), Guys With Kids (9:30 p.m., Global) and The New Normal (9:30, NBC/CTV) all air in their
Jeff Probst will try to outwit, outplay and outlast his opponents on the island of daytime talk shows. The Jeff Probst Show begins Monday at 2 p.m. on Global, with Katie, starring Katie Couric following at 3 on City and The Ricki Lake Show at 4 back at Global. Anderson Cooper launches his second season,
Made the scene Sunday at the Canadian Film Centre’s annual Toronto International Film Festival BBQ. The spread was held once again at Stately Wayne Manor, a.k.a. E.P. Taylor’s old Windfields Estate in Toronto, with CFC executive director Slawko Klymkiw presiding. The usual CanCon suspects were there, including: Rick Mercer (below right), celebrating his 10th season
If you’ve been keeping up with Weeds for all seven seasons, congratulations, you’re a better fan than I. The Toronto Star asked me to weigh in on the eighth and final season premiere, which just aired in Canada last Tuesday.A lot had gone on since I’d last visited Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her suburban
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know what the heck I was doing in Halifax last week. I explain that I was there on the set of the CBC teacher comedy Mr. D. Scott wanted to know if Gerry Dee’s hair was really that blond. This is why Scott gets the medium sized bucks.We
The view from City-TV’s rooftop in Toronto’s Yonge/Dundas Square Rogers Media invited press to breakfast with its top TV executives Thursday atop its City broadcast centre at the Yonge/Dundas Square. The view from there is very Tokyo/Times Square, with plenty of downtown billboards. A big, circular portrait of Sash Baron Cohen as The Dictator looks
“I was pushing for something Rock ‘n’ Roll ,”says McCormack of his shaggy professor look on his new series Perception Eric McCormack stars as a college professor who helps solve crimes in Perception (premiering Wednesday night at 9 p.m. on Bravo).The Toronto native was back in his hometown last week when I interviewed him for a