CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know a whole bunch of things this week, including my thoughts of the Junos and William Shatner as host. Told him I didn’t see a second of it.Seems many other Canadians felt the same way. The Sunday night music showcase drew around 1.6 million viewers on CTV Sunday in the overnights,
Trudeau takes one to the chin Saturday on Sun News The Big Bang Theory, was back and back on top of the ratings in Canadafor another week. Award shows and reruns also hit the schedules, as did the bizarre political boxing event Sun New Network brought live from OttawaSaturday night. There’s got to be a
Shaikh and Firla yuk it up on Little Moque Let me declare this right upfront: I never found Little Mosque on the Prairie to be all that funny. The CBC comedy ends a six season run with the opening of a new mosque tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET.The series had its moments, and I liked
Gethin Anthony (above right) gets more face time in season two of Thrones Last season, Game of Thrones introduced fantasy fans to a world of Kings and Queens, sex and violence, barbarians, direwolves, black magic, palace intrigue and bloody wars. It’s a treacherous, medieval place to inhabit, yet nothing but fun for the actors involved
In the wake of recently announced cutbacks, TV Feeds My Family has obtained the top secret, totally revised CBC schedule. Here’s what viewers will have to look forward to next fall once the $115 million chop to the annual parliamentary appropriation starts impacting the schedule. STEVEN OR CHRIS–LifestyleHard times at the network force the daytime
Trudeau: Age, 40, H, 6-foot-2, W, 180 LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUMMMBLE!! Tonight, Sun News has the show everybody wants to see–Justin Trudeau getting his beak bent by Patrick Brazeau.I once asked Justin’s younger brother Sasha Trudeau if he’d ever get into politics. He said his dad advised against it, telling him, “it’s a dirty
I used to goof on CBC all the time when I was the TV columnist at the Toronto Sun. Back then it wasn’t even mandatory.Once I wrote an obit that began, “BROADCASTING CORPORATION, CANADIAN; died in its sleep last night…”Good times.The fellow in charge of CBC programming back then, Slawko Klymkiw, was a very patient
Thanks to an invite from the folks at Discovery Canada, I caught the Mythbusters “Behind the Myths Tour” as it stopped in Toronto Thursday night. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were like rock stars at the Sony Centre, playing two shows with the evening performance packed to the rafters.A full house of adoring fans–many in