Here’s a shocker—a guy walking on a wire across Niagara Falls beat the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs as the most-watched program of the week in Canada. Leafs should check to see if he can play goal. Otherwise a week full of Euro Cup soccer, NBA finals and Jays baseball booted reruns in
Visited the impressive and friendly set of the legal drama Suits last week in Toronto. The series returns for a second season tonight at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo in Canada and Thursdays at 10/9c on USA Network in the States.Suits shoots at the same former munitions factory in Downsview where Covert Affairs is lensed. By
I didn’t see a minute of Sunday’s MMVAs in Toronto but here is a photo of Katy Perry as a big moth or something. Below is a photo of some young girl in a classic, well polished, 1965 Mustang. Detroit’s original “Pony Car” was styled under the direction of project design chief Joe Oros and his
Conan O’Brien’s kinda been off the radar lately, tucked away over there on TBS. This clip, from last week’s triumphant trip to Chicago, shows his late night series can still be the funniest thing on television–especially when an old friend shows up to bark at not-so-innocent bystanders.
Wallenda practices Thursday untethered and alive. Ida Mae Astute/ABC This week, Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know if I thought Nik Wallenda will be a bit hit on TV Friday night as he walks across Niagara Falls. “Is this Harry Houdini TV come back to us?” asks Scott.My take is that this is silly
To the great relief of everyone at CBC, hockey finally heated back up as the Los Angeles Kings were embraced as the Cinderella team of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs. That chick behind the Devils’ bench with the big show of support probably didn’t hurt, either. A good week also for several Canadian returnees, including
Back in business: Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman Way back when TV first started feeding my family, the biggest star there was was Larry Hagman. Dallas was on at least a dozen TV Guide Canada covers in the ’80s as readers couldn’t get enough of J.R., sexy Victoria Principal, Southfork and all those Ewing shenanigans.TNT
Kudos to Jim Hughson for letting the game speak for itself during the dying minutes of the Kings’ Stanley Cup triumph Monday night. With empty net goals going in and the game well out of reach, the veteran Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play man wisely kept his mouth shut and allowed the compelling pictures tell