BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Roseanne always cuts straight to the point. Wednesday at press tour, the comedienne crashed Lifetime’s cable network press session, cutting short an introduction by stepping through a curtain and seizing the podium. “What a privilege it is for you to have me here,” said Roseanne, who is the centre piece of the well-named Lifetime series
I tell CHML’s Scott Thompson all about Tuesday’s TCA press tour visit to the Film Roman Studios deep in the San Fernando Valley, where they animate The Simpsons. Al Jean and a few of the show`s directors walked reporters through the office, pointing out storyboards and allowing us to peek over animator`s shoulders. A cool
LOS ANGELES, CA–This press tour got off on the right foot Tuesday with a relaxed and Flip camera friendly visit to the set of Rizzoli & Isles. The TNT cop series–one of the most popular series on U.S. cable–stars Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli. Sasha Alexander plays medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. Bruce
STUDIO CITY, CA–Murtz Jaffer, your Tiki torch has been snuffed.Had to vote my old Survivor pal off the island at this photo op set up on Day One of the TCA Summer 2011 press tour Tuesday. The Reality Obsessed star would have enjoyed today’s TCA Studio Day session at CBS Radford, the storied TV lot
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.–And so it begins. The first bit of swag arrived at 8 a.m. this morning here at the Beverly Hilton–orange juice from Anderson Cooper. Another Television Critics Association press tour has commenced.It was sent to the 100 or so TV critics, newspaper columnists and bloggers ensconced here for the next dozen days as
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of media guru Marshall Mcluhan. The man wrote the book on Understanding Media. If only he had lived long enough to explain the Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour.
Attention, Canada: time to get Drunk and on Drugs.The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour finally arrives tonight at 9 p.m. on Showcase Action. This is the mad series created by those three Trailer Park Boys, Mike Smith, J.P. Tremblay and Rob Wells. I visited the set over a year ago as they were
Yesterday I was coming home from New York through the Toronto island airport when I hear my named called in the customs lineup. For once this was a good thing.Turns out it was Brodie Fenlon, a former colleague at the Toronto Sun. In fact I think we were both shit canned downsized the same day.Somebody