Calvin and Hobbled Occasionally I get tempted out of the Brampton bunker for the odd Toronto soiree. There were a couple this week:Do folks remember the Toronto Sun? Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Little Paper that Grew until Quebecor shrunk it.Several alumni gathered at house bar Betty’s across the street from the grocery
Huh. Wasn’t Quebecor supposed to pull the plug on their Sun News Network over-the-air broadcast transmitters November 1? Yet I turn my TV to channel 15 and there is the same ad for arthritis meds hustled by one of Sun News Network’s on-air news anchors. At least he hasn’t yet stooped to modeling the Geniebra!
This week, Scott Thompson at CHML asks about my ol’ pal Regis Philbin. Why is he leaving Live? Who is going to replace him? Will daytime TV ever be the same?I put in a request to interview Philbin last July when I was in New York but the word back was he felt it was
Tonight at 10 p.m. is the premiere of Sons of Anarchy on the new FX Canada. It’s on channel 318 and free for two months if you subscribe to Rogers’ digital deal; other carriers are still being wooed. Some Canadians have been enjoying this gritty outlaw biker series for a few years on Super Channel.
It’s a happy Halloween for the folks at American Horror Story (starring Connie Britton, above). The kinky FX drama was renewed for a second season today.The series drew 3.1 million Live+3 U.S. viewers for last week’s fourth episode, its best performance to date. FX says American Horror Story is on track to becoming their highest-rated
I’m sure if Bob McAdorey was still around and had heard he was being honoured along with somebody called “Deadmou5, he would have probably said, “sounds about right.” Mac, who grew up and went to high school in Niagara and eventually retired a place in Niagara-on-the-Lake, was among 7 groups and individuals honoured Saturday as
The big scare earlier this year with The Simpsons was that it might be shutting down production at the end of this season. Voice actor contracts resolved, the annual Halloween special, this year titled Treehouse of Horror XXII (Sunday at 8 on Fox and Global) is far less frightening (although it is slightly unsettling that the
Beavis and Butt-Head toilet paper: blog gold “I felt like TV was getting too smart.”That’s Mike Judge’s rational for bringing back Beavis and Butt-Head. The barely animated duo return with their first new episode in nearly 14 years tonight at 10 p.m. on MTV.Publicists at MTV Canada sent critics a role of Beavis and Butt-Head