That’s doctors Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson flanking Concordia University president and vice-Chancellor Judith Woodsworth at Sunday’s bestowing of the honorary degrees. The two Air Farce favourites joined Montreal Canadiens’ legend Jean Beliveau as honorees at the commencement ceremonies in Montreal.As Abbott quipped (in an earlier post), “I walked away without my BA all those
The KGB was out in force at the Rogers/City-TV launch Tuesday in Toronto. As in “Keeps Getting Better.”The corny slogan was repeated ad (and I do mean ad) nauseum at the industry event, held at the Canon Theatre on Yonge Street. Rejected was this slogan: “Keeps Getting Bigger” (your Rogers bill).Even Regis got into the
Heading down to the Rogers/City-TV Fall Launch upfront this afternoon at the Canon Theatre in Toronto. With CTV and Global keeping their hands in their pockets for once, Rogers were the big spenders down at the LA screenings this spring, buying 16 hours of imported fare. Guess their business model isn’t broken! Look for the
So I go up to P.R. boss Scott Henderson at Thursdays CTV upfront. Told him he looks terrific, has really slimmed down. Says Henderson: “Everybody’s downsizing.”It’s a great line and does sum up this fire sale of a fall preview time. CTV usually rents the glitziest venue in Toronto for this ad industry wank, throwing
I’ll never forget meeting David Carradine. It was way back in 1987, in the middle of the night.He was guest starring on the CTV police drama Night Heat, which had broken through to a summer tryout on CBS at the time and was importing a few big name stars. Carradine was in his trailer, parked
If you haven’t seen the new CTV/NBC series The Listener, there’s another opportunity tonight at 9 p.m. NBC is running back-to-back episodes.The supernatural drama (executive producer Christina Jennings calls it a “telepathic procedural”) stars Craig Olejnik as a paramedic who can hear people’s thoughts. Ennis Esmer plays his ambulance partner, Lisa Marcos a local detective
Just one year ago, the star of Canwest’s Fall Upfront was KITT, the talking Shelby Mustang at the centre of their flashy NBC import, Knight Rider. Canwest had it freighted to T.O. and parked it right on the stage of the Elgin Theatre. It was comin’ to E!, and it was driving Canwest’s future growth.Course,
Jay Leno took the stage at Casino Rama Tuesday night like he was shot out of a cannon. The man who concluded 17 years as host of The Tonight Show Friday blitzed through an 80-minute act that rocked the sold out, 5000-seat theatre.He joked about cats, Michael Jackson, VCRs, condoms, fat kids, exploding diarrhea, his