Ever get a premonition that somebody’s going to die?I honestly felt that way last month at press tour listening to Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, the top club spinner who was found dead last Friday morning at his New York City apartment, the apparent victim of a drug overdose.Goldstein nearly died a year ago. Last
Scott Thompson was off on holiday with his wife last week and didn’t they just go out and enjoy a Mad Men Season One DVD marathon. We talk about how great that series is (and how it is driving new business in Canada to iTunes) on today’s CHML Talk Radio TV chat, you can listen
Paradise Falls–you can’t kill it with a stick.The steamy Canadian prime time soap returns for a third season tonight, but few shows have had such an on-again, off-again production schedule. Set in Ontario’s cottage country, Paradise Falls began in mid-2001 and lurches into this season with 26 new episodes that were shot two years ago
Had the good fortune earlier this year to be invited to take part in a TV party that’s been turned into a TV series. The show is called Switch and it premieres tonight at 9:30 on TVTropolis.So–full disclosure–I’m in on this deal. This isn’t the most objective review, but, hey, what can I say, I
Memo to Teletoon: Might want to review those Robot Chicken reruns before you throw them on the air. At 10:15 tonight, I watched a Ted Kennedy doll go on a killing spree with a Jenna Jameson porn star doll. The late Massachusetts senator, just laid to rest Saturday, was shown wading into a bar, helping
Maybe Brad Schwartz is right. The Sr. V.P. and GM of MuchMusic raised hackles last week when he proudly declared that the station would be doing “absolutely nothing to celebrate our 25th anniversary. “Now a division of the CTV “broken business plan” fun factory, MuchMusic hit the air exactly 25 years ago today, on August
If you’re looking to party hearty on a budget this weekend check out Sherri Woodstock II, happening Saturday night at the Horseshoe Tavern on Queen St. West in Toronto. Thanks to her mom, Debbie, sister Kayla and the rest of her close-knit family, the spirit of Toronto Sun spark plug Sherri Wood lives on in
Heading down the 407 today to yak with Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30. The topic is the travesty that is the Geminis and how those pinheads could salute the best in Canadian TV and completely shut out the final seasons of two of Canada’s finest comedies ever, Corner Gas and