One of the most famous corporate logos made its debut 60 years ago this week: The CBS Eye. CBS is proud of their ol’ Eye, releasing the above photo montage today. It is such an enduring symbol, virtually unchanged in 60 years and recognized around the world.A decade or so ago, as part of a
In this second clip from my conversation with Dave Broadfoot, the Canadian comedy legend talks about his early influences. Among those who made him sit a little closer to the radio were Allan Young, a fellow Canadian who would go on to fame opposite a talking horse on Mr. Ed. A young Broadfoot used to watch
It was good to see the old “Canadian Moment” donut shop set again at today’s book launch for Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants. A steady crowd lined up at the atrium of the CBC building in Toronto to get their copy of the book autographed by author Don
One of the great privileges in being asked to work on Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants was getting to spend a few hours with Dave Broadfoot. As Rich Mercer wrote on the back jacket of Broadfoot’s 2002 autobiography, Old Enough to Say What I Want,”If the comedy business
Greetings, Farce fans! Today, Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants hits bookstores everywhere. The 288-page hardcover from Wiley is a wonderful scrapbook of stories and photos from Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott about Canada’s longest-running comedy troupe. I was honoured to be asked to help with the book and
Among the many things I liked about The Walking Dead when it premiered last year: it was a six episode season.I’m down with that U.K. series length, I knew it was something I could possibly catch beginning to end.Which I did, with my 18-year-old son, who was nuts for this series.The Walking Dead returns tonight
Is it too early to report winners and losers from the fall TV season? Not really. Five U.S. network shows have already been canceled: in order, they are NBC’s The Playboy Club, Hank Azaria’s NBC comedy Free Agents (the one I had first in the pool), the dumb CW reality show H8R, CBS’s How to be a Gentleman
Isn’t it curious how you can say all kinds of S#*! on television that you still can’t say in print?I’ve been wanting for several weeks now to comment on how raunchy the new sitcoms were this season. The pilot for 2 Broke Girls, for example, showed a customer in a restaurant snapping his fingers at