Jamco presents a brand new season of That’s So Weird! Canada’s only sketchcom aimed at ‘tweens (unless you count Being Erica). The series returns tonight at 6:30 on YTV with its seven member comedy troupe Kayla Lorette, Alana Johnston, James Hartnett, Joey Lucius, Hannah Hogan, Alex Spencer and A.J. Vaage. They star in a whole new
Who doesn’t love Lily Tomlin? She’s one of my favourite phone interviews, always warm and friendly and in the moment, so unlike her famous Laugh-In alter-ego Ernestine. There’s always a gracious good afternoon with Lily, no, “One-ringadingy, two ringadingy…” Caught up with her last week to get the details on her live appearance Friday north of
CTV was quick to declare it had four of the Top 5 new shows after Week One of the 2011-12 season. It would have been hard to imagine them not getting that early jump. The X Factor, bringing with it the return of Simon Cowell, was the consensus pick as the season’s one sure thing,
Meant to post a heads up on the premiere of Prohibition on Sunday but I was too hung over.The latest PBS epic documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premiered Sunday night with Part One: “A Nation of Drunkards.” I tried to watch but passed out with my friend Jack Daniels.Actually I screened Part One
People often ask, “What’s your favourite, all-time TV show?” I never hesitate to answer: The Dick Van Dyke Show.Sure, part of it is nostalgia. I grew up with the black-and-white CBS comedy, which premiered 50 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1961.It was very much rooted in the Kennedy era, with the pilot having been shot
I know what you’re saying. Where are all those CHML radio podcasts with Scott Thompson? Been behind in posting these suckers lately under a flurry of print deadlines but here is Wednesdays yakkity-yak. Scott wanted to know what I thought about Monday’s second episode of Two and a Half Men, what is the difference between
Don’t let it be forgot/That once their was a spot/For one brief shining moment/That was known as Camelot!That spot was Wednesday, where the Canada/Ireland co-production–despite the efforts of talented Mayfield S.S. grad Lara Jean Chorostecki (left)–sank to a new low on a new night of 458,000 viewers. Last week: 672,000. Yikes.There’s simply not/a more congenial
CBC’s new shrink series continues to shrink in the ratings. Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays drew just 153,000 overnight, estimated Tuesday night viewers less than a week after being relocated from Wednesdays. That’s the worst performance yet for the series, heralded here as the best new comedy of the season. It’s a number that would not get it