Sad, shocking news about Tim Russert, the NBC News correspondent and Meet The Press host who died Friday of a heart attack at 58. Russert was a proud native of Buffalo. N.Y., and boasted that he attended the famous 1969 Woodstock concert “in a Buffalo Bills jersey with a case of beer.” Before he went
Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), who whistled his way to that fishin’ hole along with young Opie (Ron Howard) at the beginning of every episode of The Andy Griffith Show, squeaked out a win in the TV Feeds My Family Father’s Day poll. Seems about right to me. That episode with the dead bird and
Promised my cousin Carol Brioux Steed I’d get word up here about Briouxpalooza ’08, the big clan reunion taking place today in Peterborough, Ont. About 350 Brioux friends and relatives are expected to make the trek to the cradle of Briouxdum. There is a street named after the Brioux family in this town, where our
Is CBC really that ticked at Chris Haddock? Tomorrow night at 9 p.m., they’re finally airing the writer/producer’s spin-off feature “The Quality of Life: A Dominic Da Vinci Movie.” A year after it was delivered, they’re burying it on a Saturday in June, TV’s equivalent of the witness protection program.In addition, the Toronto-based publicity firm
Last year at this time, I had my first taste of the Banff World Television Festival. After years of smugly dismissing it as an industry wank, I had an opportunity to see first hand as a panel moderator that it was a viable, first class marketplace and idea centre, a place where TV enthusiasts could
This week on the CHML radio chat with Scott Thompson, we needle CBC for being too stupid to hold on to a theme song. Listen to the discussion here.That CTV was going to steal the Hockey Night in Canada theme was about as obvious and predictable as the Leafs not making the playoffs. But only
Annual pilgrimage to the lake was made this weekend by the boys of summer (six Michael Power grads; three St. Michael’s College alumni. Missing from photo: Allison from Exeter). McConvey took this year’s mini golf title with a 45 on the Evergreen Resort mosquito magnet. The lad was presented with the brand new “That’s Got
Heading down the 407 today to talk to my buddies Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly at CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 about this whole Hockey Night in Canada theme song hullabaloo. Seems odd that the CBC would stoop to nickel and diming the composer of this tune when HNiC is by far their biggest moneymaker. Sure,