Pinsent and Pinsent last summer at the CFC TIFF BBQ When I ran into Gordon Pinsent at the Toronto International Film Festival/Canadian Film Centre BBQ last September, he was still sporting the ‘stache from playing Stephen Leacock in tonight’s CBC movie Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Pinsent is a marvel at 81 and prattled
My mom called and left a message–something about there being a photo of me in today’s Toronto Sun.This seemed unlikely. The Mayan calendar doesn’t end for another 10 months.Still, I found a copy at my local convenience store (still just 50 cents!) and there I am in the middle of a full page ad on
CHML’s Scott Thompson asks about the Super Bowl. Scott did the whole crazy NBC enchilada, tuning in around noon as the Peacock network showcased Jimmy Fallon, Top Chef and everything else on their schedule. “The only thing missing was a monologue by Jay Leno,” says Thompson.Why not, I say, what else are you gonna watch,
Hold onto your chess pieces, fans. Sources close to the short-lived Canadian drama Endgame say the series may be coming back.Endgame, starring Shawn Doyle (right) as a Russian chess grand master-turned Vancouver detective, has been out of production for about a year. Low ratings were cited for the cancellation by Showcase. The sets have long
The Super Bowl audience keeps getting bigger each year in Canada. CTV scored 7,280,000 overnight, estimated viewers for Sunday’s big game, well up from the 6,537,000 counted in the overnights the year before. The combined CTV/RDS audience in Canada was tallied at 8.15 million, up from 7.3 million in 2011 and 6.9 million in 2010.CTV
Paul Devlin’s cousin. Looking to add a little paranormal activity to your evening? Tonight ABC launches The River, a spooky drama starring Bruce Greenwood (left) as a Crocodile Hunter-type dude named Dr. Emmet Cole who goes missing deep in the Amazon jungle. When his wife (Leslie Hope) and son (Joe Anderson) start getting a signal
By now, you’ve seen eleventy-billion million previews for Smash. If you were watching an award shows lately, or the Super Bowl, chances are you saw and heard Katharine McPhee howling her lungs out followed by Debra Messing looking like she’s about to be named as CTV News anchor.I like Smash–it remains the best pilot I