Long time NBC news correspondent Edwin Newman always spoke with the authority of someone who knew the right words. He used language with precision, a TV guy with an old school dedication to the craft of copy writing. There was something welcome and relatable about his look, too, more Ed Asner or Edward G. Robinson
Want to ask Conan O’Brien a question about his new show? Conan launches Nov. 8 on TBS and CTV. The still-bearded talk show host has set up a Facebook link allowing fans to quiz him on the new series. Questions you might want to submit: “Are you keeping the beard?” “Is Max Weinberg still your bandleader?”
Norman Jewison and George Anthony Brian Linehan would have liked this morning’s simple but sincere Toronto International Film Festival salute. The celebrated celebrity interviewer, who died in 2004, was honored at the dedication of the Brian Linehan Research Library, tucked onto the fourth floor of the brand new Bell Lightbox. TIFF’s new showcase is a
Man, that Slawko Klymkiw has pull in high places. The executive director of the Canadian Film Centre had the skies part and the rain stop for Sunday’s annual CFC BBQ, held as usual out at the old E.P. Taylor Winfields estate in uptown Toronto. The skies threatened but the rain held off throughout the outdoor
“The underworld has a new hero,” it says in the ads for Lost Girl, which premieres Sunday night at 9 p.m. on Showcase. The Gothic, supernatural series stars Anna Silk (middle right, with co-stars Zoie Palmer and Kris Holden-Reid) as a kick-ass Succubus named Bo who stays young and pert by draining the life fluids from
First, Bell buys CTV for $3.2 billion. Then, news breaks that CTV CEO Ivan Fecan is stepping down. Now the third sign of the apocalypse–the IFFU Billboard has come down. The half-block advertising display, which stands across the street from the John Street entrance to CBC’s corporate headquarter in Toronto, has long been a CTV
CTV president and CEO Ivan Fecan announced Friday that he is leaving the network.In a memo to staff, Fecan suggested his original plan was to exit in the summer of 2012, after CTV’s coverage of the next Olympic Games. After meeting with the new owner, BEC president and CEO George Cope, however, the timetable has been moved up.
Remember all those ads boo-hooing about saving local TV and shutting down local stations because the business model was all broken and everything? Remember how networks went hat-in-hand to the CRTC three years running until they strong-armed some concession on carriage fee cash? Remember how they threatened to turn out the lights?Well, turns out there was