Sutherland senior: where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? What seems most jarring to these failing eyes are the sex scenes in today’s modern miniseries. While The Thorn Birds seemed racy in its day, Father Ralph and that Aussie chick were merely playing patty fingers in the Holy water compared to the sword and sandal sizzle
CHML’s Scott Thompson is confused. Am I heading down to Comic-Con or the semi-annual TCA press tour? And what’s the difference? It is getting harder to tell as Comic-Con grows into the big pop culture event of the summer. The deal takes place this week in San Diego (July 21-25) and I won’t be there (please–summer
Degrassi’s move to MuchMusic was a win-win for CTV. The 10th season premiere, kicking off a reformatting of the series as a nightly soap, drew 218,000 viewers to MuchMusic Monday according to overnight estimates. A quarter million viewers across Canada was about what Degrassi was down to Sundays at 7 on CTV. Overnight, the teen
Ever wanted to travel Route 66? The fabled U.S. highway, which more or less cuts diagonally from Chicago to California, was popularized in song and even a cool little TV series a half century ago. Bypassed by super highways and Interstate routes today, it is very much a broken path. That hasn’t stopped Rob Salem (above) and
Degrassi is no longer a generational thing. The series begins its 10th season on a new network (MuchMusic), in a new, nightly, serialized format (Mondays to Thursdays at 9 p.m.) and with a new title (just, plain, Degrassi, goodbye The Next Generation). With the original franchise dating back to 1979, they’d soon have had to
This week Scott Thompson wanted to talk about all the changes with the Canadian network news anchors. First Global National News anchor Kevin Newman announces he is quitting his job (Aug. 20), then Lloyd Robertson gets called back to pyramid duty (the 76-year-old will retire in 2010 after a year-long victory lap).I spoke with Newman
Been up to the shores of Lake Huron lately at the decidedly unplugged cottage and behind in my blogging. Here are a few recent Canadian TV headlines of note:18 to Life: The CBC sitcom (starring Stacey Farber and Michael Seater, right) has been picked up for a summer run in the U.S. The romantic comedy
Monday through Thursday this week, Live! with Regis and Kelly does Canada (9 a.m., CTV). The talk show is doing four shows from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and Regis Philbin sounded pretty pumped about it when I spoke with him last week.“After hearing everybody rave about the place I can’t wait to see it,” said