Every once in a while you see a show you like so much it scares you. Scares you because, as a TV critic, you’re always looking for something original, something clever, something you haven’t quite seen before. Such a show is Glee. The new Fox musical comedy gets a sneak peak next Tuesday at 9
If you were at Bruce Springsteen’s concert at the ACC the other night, like CHML’s Scott Thompson, you’d know that Max Weinberg won’t be touring with the boss in Europe this summer. That’s because Conan O’Brien has insisted Max be behind his kit when O’Brien debuts as host of the Tonight Show June 1. Turns
We’ve all been there, shoppers: the spring lines come out, everything looks spiffy and cool, but there’s just one problem: no money. Put the credit card back in the wallet. Wait till next year.That may be the view from Canada as American networks get set to host their 2009-10 season launches (Fox on May 18,
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