Don Cherry’s been catching plenty of heat for his “pinko” prank at Toronto City Hall earlier this week. Grapes walked in like he was that WikiLeaks guy at a United Nations security council meeting and let everybody have it, right in the nuts. That musta hurt when they all rode their bikes home up Jarvis after the meeting.Hey, all I
Troy (Donald Glover), Abed (Pudi), Duncan (John Oliver) If you’re looking for something a little different–yet also strangely familiar–this Christmas, check out tonight’s cool Yule episode of Community (NBC, City, 8 p.m.). The cast members–cartoon characters at the best of times–have all been rendered as stop-motion puppets in an homage to those classic Rankin-Bass holiday specials
This week’s chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson starts with a clip from Sunday’s Christmas episode of The Simpsons. Scott wanted to know if the Simpsons were as relevant now as when the series started 21 years ago. I dodge the question but suggest the series is running out of stories. New writers needed, Scott asks? Perhaps,
Five years ago, when I was still at the Toronto Sun, we did this terrific tribute to John Lennon on the 25th anniversary of his murder. Those kick-ass special entertainment sections were always very collaborative with all hands contributing copy. Bob Bishop as always did a masterful job designing the section.I got to write the opener, a
Dating Racers Thomas Wolfard and Jill Haney Take Battle of the Blades and especially Dancing with the Stars out of the equation and the weekly Top-30 in Canada becomes a very different Race. Here’s how it all played out Nov. 29- Dec. 5 among Canadians 2+ according to overnight estimates: MONDAYThe departure of Dancing with the Stars and Blades led to
It will be hard to imagine Citytv without the boomimg baritone of Mark Dailey. More than any other broadcaster in Canada, he was the voice of his city and his network. The veteran news anchor died today after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Dailey began his career at City in Toronto in 1979.
MNF`s big three: Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford Frank Gifford was asked recently about the current state of the TV broadcast booth. Gifford, one-third of the most famous trio of Monday Night Football announcers (the others being Howard Cosell and Don Meredith), said he wasn’t too impressed. All that boosterism bugged him, he said.
Drew Carey isn’t half the man he ised to be. The once rolly-poly comedian has shed close to 90lbs as regular viewers of The Price is Right can attest. Carey dropped so much weight by the press tour last August that many reporters walked right by him at the CBS evening event. In his tan