“You’re a poker player. That’s beyond white trash.”Joan Rivers spat that at Annie Duke on Sunday night`s electric, best ever episode of Celebrity Apprentice.Rivers ripped into the World Series of Poker champion after her daughter Melissa–beyond mommy’s protection on the opposing team–was fired by Donald Trump in a tense, edgy catfight of a board room
When it comes to feeling the full impact of the recession, nobody is feeling it like the TV business, which has lost millions of dollars in ad revenue. CBC has announced it is cutting back on the number of episodes it will order this year on shows like Little Mosque on the Prairie and This
Every spring, broadcasters hearts and minds turn to, not love, but pilots. One by one, they take off south of the border and TV execs fall in love with them all over again. U.S. programmers decide which ones make their schedules. Then Canadian programmers fly south, spend $700 million-plus, and bring as many as they
TV Turnoff Week has never been more of a turn off. Imagine this year if they held a Boycott Car Dealerships Week or Stop Buying Newspapers Week. Talk about kicking an industry when it is down.Nevertheless, here we are in the middle of TV Turnoff Week (April 20-26). Holding it every year during this fourth
Plenty to cover this week with CHML Talk Radio`s Scott Thompson. We both agreed that last Friday’s Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… worked better than the first two outings of this series thanks to the many musical guests, including chatty Roseanne Cash. Scott also wanted to know the story behind Rick Moranis bowing out of the
Another day, another announcement about Canadian-produced TV shows for the fall. Maybe the sky isn’t falling after all, at least not in Toronto.The news comes from cash-strapped Canwest Global, which just launched the animated series Bob & Doug and has The Dealership and other projects in production for fall. Screw that $4.1 billion debt, let’s
After months of uncertainty and posturing in Canadian media circles, CBC finally announced Tuesday morning their pickups for the 2009-10 season. Among the new orders is one that sounds like an old SCTV sketch: BATTLE OF THE BLADES, according to the release, “is an elimination-style challenge that teams up Canada ’s top figure skaters with
Wondering how things went at that Canadian Film Centre salute to Norman Jewison in Los Angeles Friday night? Host Leonard Maltin reports that it all went very well indeed. With A-List story tellers Jewison, Carl Reiner and Cher in the house, how could if fail? Go to Getty Images, type “Norman Jewison” in the search