Michael Tuesdays & Thursdays is insanely good. Smart, funny, touching at times, the CBC sitcom, which airs Wednesday nights at 9 p.m., is the best new comedy of the season.Let’s get the so-well-crafted part out of the way. Just hats off to Bob Martin for a sharp, witty pilot script (“…what the hell? I am
’90s band Moxy Fruvous. The hippie dude is Jian Ghomeshi I loved that Tom Cochrane song Life is a Highway the minute I heard it. It is the perfect car radio, turn it up real loud song.You can hear it tonight along with dozens of other homegrown pop tunes on Life is a Highway: Canadian
Numbers may not lie but they never tell the whole story. That was the message this morning from Sandra Faire, executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Her four-year-old series was abruptly cancelled earlier this week by CTV.I blogged in the previous post that I wasn’t as shocked as some at SYTYCDC‘s
Jordan Clark is the fourth and final SYTYCDC champ Why did So You Think You Should Dance Canada get cancelled? Numbers never lie. While still pulling in the high 800,000s, the Toronto-based reality show was slipping year-to-year, even week-to-week this summer.Sunday’s fourth season finale drew an overnight, estimated 903,000 viewers. Murdoch Mysteries or Being Erica should
Tuesday night’s debut of Ringer (starring Buffy’s Sarah Michelle Gellar) rings the bell on the start of the new TV season. While everybody wants to know when Two and a Half Men returns (Sept. 19), TV Feeds My Family has a complete run down of all the new network shows this season.All the start times
Ran into some old pals at the TIFF Canadian Film centre BBQ Sunday in Toronto. Founder Norman Jewison made a stirring speech from the stony deck of the old E.P. Taylor Windfields Farms Estate. Jewison recalled how he flipped burgers all those years ago at the first TIFF BBQ, which used to take place at
While it was a time of bewilderment and sorrow, it was also a privilege to be in a newsroom on Sept. 11, 2001. At the Toronto Sun, where I was working in those days, it was battle stations, all hands on deck. The newspaper put out a “bugle” edition that day (a special, afternoon edition),
Paul Bates gets the bad news Dan for Mayor has been voted out at CTV. Executive producer Mark Farrell confirms that the second year comedy has not been renewed for a third season at the broadcaster. There is no confirmation yet that the same fate befell CTV’s other domestic comedy, Hiccups.The two shows were launched