Family Guy is often cited as the series that was rescued by DVD sales. The show was canceled–twice–by Fox after failing to grab a big audience during its first two seasons. Subsequent DVD sales went through the roof, and Fox ordered the series back into production a year and a half after it was halted.One
“Best…Road…Trip…Ever!”That was the phrase repeated over and over again as I tagged along with the Rent-A-Goalie gang on the Eastern portion of their cross-Canada hockey marathon. Deer Lake, Newfoundland, was memorable for it’s magestic scenery but even more for its people. As RAG boss Christopher Bolton (standing, right) said at the Deer Lake arena Thursday
I know this goes way back to Thursday night, and I should be more on top of things here, but, hell, I was in a bar in Deer Lake Newfoundland with the Rent-A Goalie cast. Whore-a Nora was there, rubbing up against everything but the pop machine, for Pete’s sake. Langers mom was on her
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!