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This is a big week for Graham Yost. The Toronto-born writer/director/executive producer (Speed, Boomtown) has two TV projects that are premiering. One is the new FX series Justified, a modern day western starring Timothy Oliphant and based on a character in a couple of novels by Elmore Leonard. It debuts on Tuesday, March 16 on

The Heroes continued to be Zeros, losing the chocolate challenge, going down with another injury (James knee gave out under the weight of his ego plus all that steroid-induced muscle mass) and losing another immunity puzzle challenge. Then they dug themselves an even deeper hole by voting off this game’s savviest strategist, Tom. They guy

Get set, Vancouver and Toronto. Conan O’Brien is bringing his 32-city comedy tour north of the border this spring and summer.O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television” tour hits Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre April 13 and comes to Toronto’s Massey Hall May 22. The event is being billed as “a night of music, comedy, hugging

This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks about my trip earlier this week to Halifax to attend a taping of 22 Minutes. The series is nearing the end of its 17th season on CBC, with the last two episodes airing the next two Tuesday night’s at 8:30. The numbers were up around 750,000 viewers this week

Looks like House just gave Hiccups the hiccups. According to a Global release, and based on BBM data, the good doctor checked back in with a new episode and drew an overnight, estimated 2,866,000 viewers at 8 o’clock on Global Monday night. That took some of the wind out of the second episodes of CTV

HALIFAX, N.S.—There’s a full colour ad on page A4 of today’s Globe and Mail for tonight’s episode of the Rick Mercer Report. We see Mercer in emergency gear splashing though a frozen pond. The ad copy says he’s on thin ice.In big, black, block letters on the bottom right hand side it says that the

Had a nice chat several weeks ago with Christine Baranski, who plays the no-nonsense law boss on CBS’ rookie drama The Good Wife (which airs tonight at 10 p.m. on CBS and Global). Baranski (above right opposite Julianna Margulies) is originally from Buffalo, N.Y. and has many fond memories of crossing the border with her