How long has it taken for The Line to get to air? So long that the magazine that assigned me to write about it folded.Which is a bloody shame since The Line is great television and deserves all the coverage it can get. It starts tonight on The Movie Network (10 p.m.) and Movie Central
Will going local save television? It has worked on radio, where local clothing store ads from “the heart of Greektown” seem to run on Toronto’s The Fan and AM640 every eight minutes. Moses Znaimer’s philosophy, when City-TV was his playpen, was it was all about what was happening on your street. Maybe Moses was on
Do casting stunts score in specialty the way they do on broadcast TV?Thursday night’s dust up between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer on The Daily Show shows a mixed reaction. In Canada, The Daily Show scored 138,000 viewers at 11 p.m. on The Comedy Channel, then another 282,000 on CTV at midnight for a combined
Not much of a fight, this Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer showdown on Thursday night’s edition of The Daily Show. The two have been sniping at each other all week on their TV shows. But CNBC Mad Money host Cramer simply turtled on Stewart’s turf, letting the comedian rip Cramer a new hedge fund. While
Spent parts of the past two days checking out Convenience U, or “Con U” as the natives call it. It’s billed as “Canada’s National Convenience, Gas and Car Wash Event.”The Toronto confab, located near the airport, is a surreal mix of convention displays, everything from giant car wash railings and hoses to state-of-the-art gas pumps
This week on Talk Radio CHML with Scott Thompson, we get into all the new digital channels getting approved by the CRTC, including that new obituary channel coming out of Quebec. People are just dying to get on there! TV for dead people? Doesn’t Jeopardy! already own that demo?Also this B.S. about networks canceling your
Those cheeky monkeys at This Hour Has 22 Minutes went ahead and aired Geri Hall‘s ambush of Dalton McGuinty tonight. Apparently the studio audience in Halifax who screened the edited clip last night weren’t mortally offended. Curious to see the bit from the actual 22 Minutes P.O.V. instead of that raw feed that circulated through
CBC announced today they were pulling the plug on their daytime lifestyles program Steven and Chris. The designer duo were coming in a poor third behind soaps and reruns on CTV and Global. A check of recent numbers showed the series pulling 59,000, 72,000, 83,000 across Canada at 2 p.m. E.T. in recent outings. Yesterday’s