The dollar’s at par, the weather is stinkin’ hot and the recent G20 summit reduced Toronto to a traffic-snarled lock down zone. So what’s with all the TV production trucks?Hogtown has once again become Hollywood North. TV production is booming across the GTA and even beyond into Hamilton, Orangeville and Port Hope.Some are American cable
CTV announced Friday that Lisa LaFlamme will replace Lloyd Robertson as anchor of the CTV National News.The move came after months of speculation. LaFlamme, a 20-year veteran at the network (she began her career as CKCO in Kitchener-Waterloo), was showcased to good effect on CTV’s Winter Olympic Games coverage.“To follow in the footsteps of Lloyd
The Emmy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning (for a complete list go here) and Glee is among the big winners so far. Maybe for the first half of the season, I’m thinking. If there was a category honoring shows that jumped the shark with blinding speed, Glee would vault to the top of that
CHML’s Scott Thompson asked about my great skate with Bob Probert, the ex-Red Wing and Blackhawk who died earlier this week at 45. I wrote about it here earlier this week.I’ve received word from a few of the guys who were in on that Deer Lake, Nfld., Rent-a-Goalie game over the past few days and
Betty White’s new sitcom Hot in Cleveland was a hot pickup for CTV, drawing an overnight, estimated 1,819,000 viewers across Canada Monday. The sitcom, which also stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick, has been a big draw for TV Land in the States but so far has done even better, proportionally, in Canada.Monday’s
Oct. 16, 2008, a date marked on a score sheet, a magical night in Deer Lake, Newfoundland. At the centre of it was Bob Probert, who died Sunday at 45.Probert was the ex-NHLer, the draw in a charity hockey game between the local Deer Lake team and a rag tag bunch assembled to represent the
Holidays can be real momentum killers when it comes to launching a new show. Fortunately, Rookie Blue did not appear to take too much of a hit this Thursday, which was Canada Day. The Global cop opera (featuring Missy Peregrym, left) drew an overnight, estimated 1.4 million in its second outing, down from its strong
Today is July 1, Canada Day, which means it is also Pamela Anderson‘s 43rd birthday. That makes Pammy exactly 100 years younger than Canada. Parts of her are even younger. Hooray for Captain Spalding.Celebrate by reading my take on Canada’s favourite pasttime–watching American TV shows. Does anyone else find it depressing that the No. 1