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
My usual Wednesday Talk Radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson was bumped to Thursday this week by my mom’s knee. Howzat? Margaret had knee replacement surgery Wednesday at Toronto Western Hospital and is doing well, thanks. When the doctor asked her if anything made her heart beat irregular prior to the surgery she never missed
With Round Two of the NHL playoffs facing off tonight, CBC seems desperate to get back into the game, ratings wise.It was announced in a release today that CBC and TSN are flipping playoff games. CBC will now carry tomorrow night’s Round Two opener between the Detroit Red Wings and the Anaheim Ducks and TSN
With Vancouver through in four, CBC’s remaining round one NHL playoff games are going right through the five hole. The big hockey action is over at TSN, which scored 1,104,000 for a 9:30 Black Hawks/Flames game Monday night. CBC had to stall with reruns of Sophie (156,000) and Little Mosque (211,000) until their late, 10:30
Jay Leno was his jokey self on his first day back to work Monday night. Leno missed two nights of The Tonight Show last week–the first two sick days ever for the late night iron man–after recording a temperature of 103 degrees provoking an overnight trip to the hospital. “I ate a raw pig brought
I very much enjoyed Friday’s low key Spectacle visit with James Taylor. The man’s voice is still smooth as silk and his stories were smart and genuine. He seemed to bring out the best in host Elvis Costello, too, both in the duets and in the questions which were thoughtful and original. Costello brought Taylor