Drew Barrymore says a dreary Winter shoot in Toronto helped her get into character for the HBO drama Grey Gardens (premiering tonight on HBO Canada, 9 p.m.). “I had to change everything about myself,” says Barrymore, who plays real life socialite-turned pauper Little Edie Beale opposite Jessica Lange’s “Big Edie.”The mother-daughter duo made headlines in
When I was talking to my old pal Slawko Klymkiw the other week he was excited about a deal the Canadian Film Centre was working on with NBC Universal. The CFC sent out this release about it yesterday:“CFC ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE NBC UNIVERSAL CONTENT CREATOR PROGRAMINNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO BRING ORIGINAL CANADIAN MADE CONTENT
I get Carla Collins. She is very much in the Hollywood showbiz tradition. Larger than life and just as loud, she’s a girl who works hard, hits her mark and can always sell a joke–and looks great doing it.Collins burned through the Toronto scene for about a decade, making a name for herself on radio
Sitting here watching the Penguins match up against Philly in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and thinkin’–are CBC’s troubles about to get way worse?The annual Hockey Night in Canada Spring playoff run (featuring Brampton’s Cassie Campbell, right) is usually money in the bank for CBC. But with three Canadian teams out of
CTV’s big name music variety show Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…took a fast fade in Week Two. Friday night’s overnight estimated audience came in at just 418,000 viewers across Canada on the BBM Canada “commercial” scale, losing more than half its audience in a week (it scored 858,000 April 3).That’s shockingly low given Costello’s big name
If you happen to be in or near Los Angeles this Friday, grab a ticket to the Canadian Film Centre salute to Norman Jewison happening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The CFC–which is ramping up their outreach to young Canadians interested in careers in television–was founded by Jewison in 1988. They
This probably matters to no one but me–and makes me sound older than God, but, damn, I miss those middle of the night What’s My Line reruns. At the start of the month GSN pulled the classic panel show from its 3 a.m. timeslot where I’ve been PVR’ing it for the past year or so.
Always enjoy chatting with Gary Doyle. He’s been the afternoon guy on Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario’s 570News for about as long as I’ve been writing about television and he calls me up from time to time to comment on the TV scene. He’s informed, endlessly curious about television and knows how to connect his listeners to the