This week, Scott claims he’s living in Happy Town. That’s the spooky new “Twin Peaks”-like series premiering tonight on ABC and /A. Actually, Happy Town was shot on the other side of Toronto, Port Hope, Ontario. Scott lives in Steel Town, which might also made for a good TV series.We also talk about today’s announcement
People ask me: which celebrity was your worst interview ever? I always reply without hesitation: Sam Neill.The New Zealand-born actor (right) is part of the large ensemble cast starring in ABC’s spooky new drama Happy Town, premiering tonight at 10 p.m. on ABC and /A.Way, way back in the ’80s when I had just started
Last week, The CRTC published their annual channel-by-channel financial summaries for the various pay-TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and specialty services. Remember all that boo-hooing from the broadcast suits about how 2009 was the worst year ever and that the recession was crippling the Canadian TV industry? Well, if there is a broken business model in Canadian
As my eagle-eyed daughter pointed out the other day, the current issue of Rolling Stone–with various members of the Glee cast on the cover–bears a strong resemblance to a 70-year-old poster hanging in our family room. While there is no panties peek (as provided left, centre, by cheeky Lea Michele), the original poster, promoting the
Like Betamax machines and UHF receivers, community programming seems like something out of the ’80s. Maybe it just looks that way to me because I was involved in that game over 25 years ago as a volunteer producer for long defunct MacLean-Hunter Cable TV in Etobicoke. You mean you never heard of Bullock & Brioux
As previously noted here at TVFMF, Canadian specialty channels continue to stray ever farther from their original mandates. Parking Wars Marathon on TVTropolis? Garage Gurus Week on Discovery? Lordy.Meanwhile, down in Hollywood, Turner Classic Movies continues to show specialty channels on both sides of the border how to stick to your brand and delight your
If Bugs Bunny ever met J.T., he’d say, “What a ma-roon, What a gull-i-bull.”The dumbass paid for his immunity idol giveaway last week, voted off Survivor at the first merged tribal council after Parvati saved Jerri’s MILF ass with the idol J.T. gave up the week before.“I feel like a total idiot right now,” J.T.
Scott Thompson is back at CHML and by the sound of it had a whole lot of catching up to do on the TV front. We touch on the camera-happy Octomom, the other, weepy, Octomom who got booted off Dancing with the Stars this week, the glory days of Hamilton wrestling (yes, the Love Brothers),