…from Thursday’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: A Dairy Queen in Canada broke a world record this week by creating a 10-ton ice cream dessert. Or as we call that in America, “a medium.”
Looking for the numbers for the week of May 2 to 8? There are up here at Toronto.com, including overnight, estimated audience results for everything from The Big Bang Theory (Canada`s top show at over 3 million viewers) and Sunday`s finale of The Amazing Race to shows such as Endgame, Wipeout Canada, The Borgias and
HALIFAX, N.S.–Turn a remote local hockey arena into a TV soundstage? Only in Canada. You have to be resourceful to begin with when it comes to cranking out TV shows in the land of low licence fees and perennial under funding. Even in large urban centres like Toronto and Vancouver, cheap rent stealth studios can
HALIFAX, N.S.–You can count Jason Priestley out of the Two and a Half Men sweepstakes.“I’m booked,” says the busy actor/director. His TMN/Movie Central series Call Me Fitz has wrapped production on a second season and he’s busy shooting four episodes of Haven, which returns for a second season on Showcase July 18.Priestley says he knows Charlie Sheen
Canada is more into S#*!, or at least S#*! My Dad Says. The William Shatner comedy has struggled on CBS and is one of those “bubble shows” that may not be back next season. Yet in Canada on CTV, it soared prospering behind the No. 1 TV show in the nation, The Big Bang Theory.
Summertime and the living is…Canadian.Off to Halifax to visit the set of Haven, which returns in July for a second season. The Showcase series got a second window on Global Friday nights this spring. That second window just opened for The Borgias, a Showtime/Bravo! drama starring Jeremy Irons. The shot-in-Hungary historical drama will premiere Tues.
Tim Goodman at The Hollywood Reporter sure hits the nail on the head with this one: “Five Not Very Good Ideas in Television.” “Mr. Crankypants,” as he was known to his San Francisco Chronicle readers, argues that rebooting Two and a Half Men without Charlie Sheen is a bad idea and also suggests we should lock up
…goes to Jimmy Kimmel for these timely and typically irreverent gags from Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live: As we speak, Osama bin Laden is living with SpongeBob in a pineapple under the sea. He’s up to 2,000 friends on Shot-in-the-Facebook. Some top Republicans are giving most of the credit for killing bin Laden to former President