Tuesday of Fall Launch week brings the return of several shows, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CTV at 10; tomorrow night at 9 on NBC), the Rick Mercer Report (CBC at 8), This Hour has 22 Minutes (CBC at 8:30), Being Erica (CBC at 9), Dancing with the Stars (results, ABC and CTV
If you have a thing for Lisa Edelstein (and you should), don’t miss tonight’s seventh season debut of House. You get to see way more of her tonight. The episode, entitled “Now What?”, finds House (Hugh Laurie) and Cuddy (Edelstein) finally doing the deed. Getting their groove on. Banging the living snot out of each other.
Canwest has papered the town with billboards and bus shelter ads proclaiming a new Dawna on Global National. “Welcome Home, Dawna Friesen,” the ads declare. There’s a full colour, full page shout out in today’s Toronto Star. Still, it’s not like she’s Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Gretzky or even Steve Nash. I don’t recall a big campaign
Monday night marks the official launch of the 2010-11 television season. Besides season premieres for several returning shows, like House, Chuck, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement and Two and a Half Men, five brand new prime time network shows make their series debuts tonight, including the highly anticipated remake Hawaii FIVE-0. Battery
This past summer in Los Angeles I was sitting down to lunch with several other critics at press tour when the subject of Boardwalk Empire came up. “Oh, I hated that show,” this one lady said. “All that boring music and stuff from the ’20s.”Yikes, I thought. The 1920s were probably the greatest decade ever
Sometimes when critics try to tell people to watch certain shows it just comes off like your parents telling you to eat your vegetables. I lost count of all the columns I wrote about how brilliant Arrested Development was. Did those columns save that show? They did not.Still, there’s no harm in trying. Sunday Star entertainment editor Garnet Fraser
Want some insight into why TV is still feeding my family? Have a feature today in the Toronto Star’s “Prime Time” section. This monthly supplement covers “business, entertainment, health and beauty for Boomers.” I guess I’m part of the entertainment mix. Editor Elizabeth Holland called me up a while back and asked for info on
Every fall, people fertilize their lawns, get ready for back-to-school and winterize their cars. I write fall preview issues. Did the task this year for the Toronto Star’s Starweek magazine. They don’t post this sucker on-line, you have to actually go out and buy a newspaper. See how that works? Starweek editor Gord Stimmell has all