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
Show No. 107, “You’ve Been Great, Good Night,” closes out Canada’s most successful sitcom, Corner Gas. It all ends Monday night at 9:30 on CTV and A.Gas is all over the CTV channel factory Monday, starting with a Canada AM salute at 8 a.m., a live eTalk salute at 7 p.m. and “It’s Been a
A TVFMF reader who wishes to remain anonymous (you know who you are) passed along the following comment. He was watching the season finale of Being Erica a week or so ago when he was yanked out of the drama by this giant, on-screen distraction. “We were near the end, when the family decides to
CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to talk about Kumar Goes to Washington and other House shockers on today’s News Talk radio chat. We do that plus yammer about rumours that the Harper government might throw some of your money at Canadian broadcasters to bail them out of that whole “broken business model” thing. See how fast
The greatest shock in last night’s episode of House wasn’t the sudden death of Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn) but that the network and producers managed to keep it all a secret until it aired.For those who didn’t see the episode, Kutner’s body is discovered in his apartment by colleagues Foreman (Omar Epps) and Thirteen
CTV scored respectacle if not spectacular ratings with Friday’s premiere of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… The hour-long music/interview series drew 861,000 Total CTV viewers Friday, a mere three thousand more than it registered on the BBM NMR overnight estimate “commercial” score.That was good enough to win the 10 p.m. time period and 40% better than