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When did Glee turn into an excuse for executive producer Ryan Murphy to re-make his favourite music videos of the ’80s? A week after the cloying Madonna episode, Murphy hooked the auto-tune up once again to breakout comedy star Jane Lynch. In another whopper of a plot twist, Lynch’s Sue Sylvester gets a call from

This week’s episode of Bones is written by the inspiration behind Temperance “Bones” Brennan–Kathy Reichs. The author of 13 Temperance Brennan novels, Reichs is an actual forensic anthropologist and she has a Canadian connection. She has worked the past 20 years at the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de medecine legale for the province of

Conan O’Brien’s 60 Minutes Inner Monologue – watch more funny videos Check out Conan O’Brien‘s “inner monologue” during Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment as envisioned by the folks over at Funny or Die. I can’t help thinking that this would be even wicked funnier if it was mashed over at Jimmy Kimmel Live.

I learned a long time ago that if you wanted to get in on a scoop at the TCA press tour, stand next to Alan Pergament. The Buffalo News TV critic (above right, a few years ago at the now defunct L.A. Friar’s Club with long time TCAers Margie Barron, Dusty Saunders and Ed Bark)

Remember those self-serving “Save Local TV” and “Stop the TV Tax” ads? Remember how the CRTC resolved everything by throwing the carriage fee stink bomb back in the laps of the cable giants and networks and basically said, sort it out yourselves?Well, they did. Global should be able to count on a pretty fair carriage

If Hugh Hefner can save the Hollywood sign, can somebody please save the Westwood sign?The distinct Etobicoke landmark has sat atop the old Westwood Theater at the south-east spoke of the Six Points since the ‘50s. Growing up in the west end of Toronto, it was my neighbourhood movie house. Many a Saturday afternoon was

“Amanda is Boston Rob in a girl’s body!” Russell declares at one point in Thursdays’ quietly intriguing hour. This, in his mind, was why she had to go. She’s too popular (had never been eliminated in two previous games), is plucky in challenges plus—unlike Rob–smoking hot in a bikini. She was even good natured and

The curse of being in this business this long is that you keep tripping over the same territory. Take Canwest’s announcement Wednesday that they are digging up the Kennedys for yet another made-in-Canada miniseries.This new, eight-hour American Camelot rehash will get plenty of tabloid press with Tom Cruise’s captive wife Katie Holmes cast as Jackie