Priests have been getting a lot of bad press lately. As Bill Maher said the other night on Real Time about the Pope, “You know your reign’s been tainted when you long for the days when people just thought you were a Nazi.”Which sort of brings us to this story I wrote for The Canadian
Tonight is the “Madonna” episode of Glee, a hot topic during my weekly chat with Lima, Ohio morning man Mike Miller at WIMA. The Clear Channel station is broadcast out of the very city where Glee is supposed to take place–Lima.They never hear the term “Lima loser” in Lima, one of a number of sore
Word is leaking out on CBC plans for the 2010-2011 season and budget woes continue to impact series runs. With ad revenues down sharply the year before, the public network nibbled last season, trimming an episode here, an episode there. This fall, without the “fee-for-carriage” bailout offered to Canada’s private networks by the CRTC (albeit
Gene Kiniski, who passed away April 14, 2010 at 81, was one of my all-time favourite interviews back when I was typing for The Toronto Sun. The hulking ring legend was helping to promote the series Wrestling With the Past on the Comedy Network when I caught up with him in 2001.I met Kiniski at
Scott Thompson is off this week at Hamilton’s CHML so I spoke with Jim Carriere, who seems to have missed all the fuss about Glee. I try to bring him up to speed, and also deconstruct Conan O’Brien’s surprise move to TBS and U.S. cable. Plenty of analysis pouring in on that shocker, including this
All that pom-pom waving seems to have paid off. Glee returned Tuesday night after a four month hiatus and enjoyed its biggest Canadian audience ever, with 2,120,000 tuning in according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Wednesday’s Global release claims Glee (featuring Naya Rivera, right) beat CTV’s American Idol in the 18-49-year-old demo nationally 1,268,300 to 1,049,600,
The Big Bang Theory (featuring Johnny Galecki, right) climbed to nearly 2.5 million viewers in Canada Monday, firmly establishing itself as Canada’s most-watched comedy. An overnight, estimated 2,492,000 tuned in to the Chuck Lorre sitcom, its second-biggest audience ever according to a CTV release. That also made it the top show of the night in
As was proclaimed today on the giant wrap-around ads on the front page of the Toronto Star, “the wait is over” for the return of Glee. The high energy Fox high school musical series returns tonight at precisely 9:28 p.m. ET/PT–carefully timed so that Fox can milk every last advantage out of that still-potent-but-slipping American