As the Canucks go, so go CBC’s fortunes this spring in the NHL playoffs. So now what?Vancouver got bounced by Chicago in Monday night’s sixth game of the second round, leaving no Canadian team in the last two rounds of the playoffs.Saturday night’s exciting game, which the Canucks lost 4-2 to the Black Hawks, drew
Yesterday I arrived home to find a giant white pizza-shaped box at my door. It was from those zany marketing folks at Fox again, this time promoting the fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance (returning Thurs., May 21 from 8-10 p.m.).Inside the box was this giant cardboard section of false floor, unfolding
Spent the morning at Holy Spirit Catholic elementary school in Vaughan, Ont. (“The City Above The Law”), where I’d been asked to take part in their annual Career Day. The deal was set up in the school gym, with people from various professions separated into stations. I was behind the “Journalist” table; other tables were
May means sweeps and finales and the kind of crazy cliffhangers you only see once a year. Most seem to be bunched up over the next week. I’ve got a list of them in today’s column for The Canadian Press. You can read the entire story here.Some shows, of course, won’t be back. We know
Nothing says Prison Break finale like a nice fresh bar of industrial shower soap.That`s how Fox sees it, anyway. The network sent TV critics the fragrent soap sampler to remind us that the series finale of this four-year-old series airs May 15 at 8 p.m. You might say they bent over backwards. CHML`s Scott Thompson
How much do you wanna bet CBC would love to see a new pro hockey franchise in Southern Ontario? Jim Balssille`s move to drag the Phoenix Coyotes across the border has to be a CBC wet dream. An Ontario Coyotes-Leafs-Senators tilt would be an automatic three million a game draw, a lottery win for cash-strapped
Few surprises in NBC’s 2009-10 fall season pickups announced today in New York. Given that The Jay Leno Show (set to bow the second week of September) will roll five nights a week at 10 p.m., the one big surprise is that NBC found room for six new shows.The four dramas include two medical shows
Had a nice chat with Kim Cattrall earlier this week, although it took a few phone calls to get through to her.Cattrall was in Italy, at some swank hotel, vacationing after shooting Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost” with Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in Germany. The call was arranged for close to midnight, Italian time; Cattrall