Went to the set of the auto action series Transporter and a hockey fight broke out. The international co-production, based on the high octane road thrillers featuring Jason Sratham, was on location last month at Mississauga’s Hershey Centre when I was invited to the set. Star Chris Vance was not behind the wheel of one
CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to talk about the passing of two TV legends: Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine. Thompson didn’t realize Borgnine was still working as a voice actor on SpongeBob SquarePants. The 95-year-old was teamed there with his old McHale’s Navy colleague, Tim Conway, fifty years after the black and white Navy sitcom. There’s
YouTube, the gift that keeps on giving. Animator Kevin Bapp took the intro to The Golden Girls and re-cast it with aging superheroes in the style of those Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoons from the ’70s. The mind boggles at what makeover mashup might come next. Thanks to Joanne Ostrow for posting this on Facebook.
Kunal Nayyar thanks you for watching Big Bang How hot was it? At just over two million viewers, a repeat of The Big Bang Theory topped the ratings in Canadathe week of July 2-8. Otherwise, viewers have been out frolicking in the sun. The only TV audience that seems to be growing is for baseball.
“I vowed that I’m going to live to 2013,” Ernest Borgnine told critics gathered at a Hallmark TCA session five years ago. “After that, I don’t give a damn.” Borgnine, who passed away Sunday at 95, missed his target by about six months. He wowed critics five years ago when he appeared at press tour to
Air Farce founders Don Ferguson and the late, great Roger Abbott were always on the lookout for new Canadian comedy talent. Ferguson, looking ahead to the next annual Farce New Year’s Eve special, continues that mentoring tradition by executive producing season two of Comedy Bar.New episodes of the comedy club web series are up today
Ay carumba! Spain’s Euro 2012 soccer victory over Italyon TSN was the most watched show of the week in Canada. What’s next—euro-style bailouts? Sudden interest in David Hasselhoff? The Jays had a big week, too, as did CFL football. Live sports—and, for some strange reason, cooking shows–seem to be all TV is good for this
What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July this week than with Andy and Barney. Here Barney demonstrates his unique mastery of the preamble to the U.S. constitution.As a kid, I laughed always at Don Knotts as bumbling Barney Fife, but never really appreciated what a superb straight man Andy Griffith made. Two life-long