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On this week’s touchy-feely episode, the remaining castaways got to welcome back an old, cherished friend. Yes, a product placement sponsor. It was some sort of phone gizmo, so nourishing on a game like Survivor. You could use it to text “OMG! Colby is SSINF! LOL!”This was also the show where loved ones are flown

Think Habsmania hasn’t gripped all of Canada? Wednesday night’s Montreal Canadiens triumph over the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the seventh game of their quarterfinal series drew 4,239,000 on CBC according to overnight estimates from BBM Canada. That more than doubled CTV’s American Idol take the same night (2,034,000) and tripled the audience

“Basically, this is Ed and Red screwing with movies.” That’s how Steven Kerzner describes his new project, Ed The Sock‘s This Movie Sucks!, which premieres Friday, May 28 at midnight on CHCH (and also on CJNT Montreal, CHEK Victoria as well as diginets Moviola and Silver Screen Classics).It has been nearly two years since the

Never liked The Doors. Back in the day, I was too young to get their trippy appeal. Songs like “Riders on the Storm” certainly sounded different, more melancholy than the usual Top-40 radio chart toppers, but all that talk about Jim Morrison the poet just seemed a bit precious. “Hello, I love you won’t you

The trouble with network conference calls is you wind up with a whole bunch of people writing basically the same story. That’s the case this weekend as features emerge leading up to Betty White‘s appearance as host tonight on Saturday Night Live (NBC, Global, 11:29 p.m.). The 88-year-old TV icon took questions from critics a

Russell continues to put on a psychology 101 clinic with his direct divide and conquer shenanigans. He completely pulled Parvati’s pants down at the second tribal council Thursday night, taking her pawn Danielle (right) out of the game like she was Ovechkin in the first round of the playoffs.Crying, of course, is grounds for dismissal

Once again, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks all the pertinent TV questions: Was Conan O’Brien as hurt as he looked over losing the Tonight Show gig in that interview with 60 Minutes Steve Kroft last Sunday ? (Answer: Yes–O’Brien is a stand up guy who got run over at one of the hottest corners in television.)