Frequent readers of this blog (you know who you both are) already know my nerdy little secret. The one show this bleary-eyed TV critic PVR’s every night and watches the next day isn’t Hole In The Wall or America’s Got Cramps or whatever the hell else they’re sticking us with this fall. It is a
Last night, the Toronto International Film Festival opened with a bang and a thunder with Paul Gross’ explosive WWI saga, Passchendaele.This site isn’t normally a film review destination–it’s not called Film Feeds My Family–but, as a guest of premium channel broadcaster Astral Media, what the hell, I’m gonna weigh in.Have to say off the bat
This time of year is a blur, what with all the new shows and film fests and what nots, but a bit of catch up is in order. First: 90210. PVR’d it, thought it was okay, thought the Canadian kids shone (although Dustin Milligan was perhaps playing it a bit too cool), thought the Kelly/Brenda
Does the camera make you more attractive to the ladies on television? That’s just one of the questions Murtz Jaffer sets out to answer tonight on Reality Obsessed (tonight at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on TVTropolis), a new reality show about reality shows.Jaffer–a Toronto Sun reader who used to call up and bust me
The new TV season always means one thing: a steady arrival of TV promotional swag.The 2008-09 season is no exception. Every day, another puffy envelope or box arrives via courier; nine times out of ten it is from Fox.They’re the ones who sent the cool AND practical multi-knife, complete with the critic’s friend, the corkscrew.
David Duchovny’s revelation that he is seeking treatment for a sex addiction seems like something straight out of Californication. Reading about it yesterday brought me back to a visit to the set earlier this summer, where I was part of a passel (gaggle?) of foreign journalists peppering Duchovny and other cast members with questions.The former
Drain the wank tank and hose down the set: Ed the Sock is hot footing it out of City-TV. After 14 seasons, the final Ed & Red’s Night Party airs tomorrow night (Friday) at 11:30.Rogers, which acquired City-TV in the fallout of the CRTC decision to allow CTV to purchase CHUM, just doesn’t think Ed
What is the No. 1 show among adults 18-49 in Toronto the past two summers? So You Think You Can Dance on CTV? Summer surprise Flashpoint? Did CBC’s Olympic Prime coverage take the gold medal this summer?The No. 1 show the past two summers in Toronto wasn’t on CTV, Global or CBC–it was Hell’s Kitchen,