DEER LAKE, NEWFOUNDLAND–I’ve been too busy chasing pucks and puck heads to post up on TV Feeds My Family the last few days. Christopher Bolton, the star, writer and creator of the Showcase series Rent-A-Goalie, called me up and invited me to join the cast and crew in a charity hockey game this week in
Am I the only one who watches Peter Mansbridge and Wendy Mesley on election night and thinks there’s something else going on? Every time he throws to her and she peers at him over those sexy granny glasses, you gotta know those two are back 20 years ago, necking behind the Front Page Challenge flats.
The numbers are in! No, not THOSE numbers. I’m talking TV ratings, dammit.Like I haven’t already beat this to death, but, Degrassi continues to sink into the abyss at CTV. A record low 220,000 bothered to check out Sunday’s second episode of the new season, down a ton from the week before which was already
A colleague in the U.S. told me last press tour he no longer reads the Poynter Online “Romenesko” media site because it is too depressing. “It’s like reading the obituaries,” he said.Case in point: the email over the weekend from my friend Eric Kohanik, editor of TVTimes.Until Friday, that is. Kohanik (left, at last July’s
Not white turkey feathers, but some sort of ghostly fern framed by autumn’s blazing side show. Spotted at Hwy 26 and 6 at the north end of the Owen Sound by-pass around 5 p.m. this evening. Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
Sophie was up slightly in Week Two, to 395,000 CBC viewers. Maybe we can nudge that over the 400,000 mark next week thanks to my Canadian Press profile of beautiful brunette Natalie Brown. I spoke with her two weeks ago at the CBC fall launch and back in June at the CBC upfront and was
This won’t be up at YouTube for long: Check out the U.S. season premiere episode of South Park, where Steven Spielberg and George Lucas rape Indiana Jones: Clearly Trey Parker and Matt Stone don’t want to see an Indy 5. South Park and the Indiana Jones movie franchise are all part of the big happy
Couldn’t miss the chill in the air at the Dave Kines MuchMusic farewell party Thursday night. Kines, one of the real good guys in the biz, was also one of the first to email a “WTF!?” when I was tossed at The Toronto Sun nearly two years ago.A prudent man, he soldiered on when CTV