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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

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