Tonight marks the debut of CSI: AWP–as is After William Petersen.Petersen’s iconic character Gil Grissom took his leave last Thursday, with audiences flocking back to wave bye-bye. Nearly 2.6 million Canadians (out of simulcast, as CTV`s PR machine points out) and 24.25 Americans watched CSI at 8 p.m. last Thursday night, the crime drama`s biggest
What will David Letterman do without George W. Bush to kick around anymore? Here is Letterman’s goodbye to three years of comedy gold, otherwise known as “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches“:
Press tour ended days ago–already seems like weeks–but I’ve been writing like mad for people who pay and there is still so much info I wanted to shake out here.One of the things I’ve always found interesting is how other reporters and critics cover this same event, often digging out nuggets I never knew about
The talk was mainly about yesterday`s swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president. Not just on the street or by the water cooler but on today’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen in here.Have to say it was fascinating to see how excited America was at the inauguration. On
Have a feature in today’s Toronto Star on all the “frostbacks” on the January press tour. Read the full story here, or better yet, buy a paper. Please! Frostbacks is an expression I’d never heard of until Star TV columnist Rob Salem spelled it out for me last July–Canadians working on U.S. network television. It
Fellow Beatle fan Bill Harris of The Toronto Sun always has something John Paul George and Ringo as his lap top wallpaper. You can almost hear his computer purr, “Go to the Windows.”Down on the floor of the press tour session rooms at the Universal Hilton, it was this black and white shot of the
Every time I pulled into the underground parking garage at the Universal Hilton, this is what I heard. Someday, all press tour sessions will sound like this.For a little more audio insight into the January press tour, here’s my weekly radio report with CHML’s Scott Thompson, recorded this past week in Los Angeles. There’s talk
Goes to one of the male stars from one of the big cable dramas premiering this month. This dude has been around long enough to know better, has starred in both network and cable shows before. Big hits, too.Lately his star has cooled off a little, so you`d think he might try a little harder