For a few short, wonderful years, Sherri Wood sat directly in front of me at the Toronto Sun. Between us were two computer monitors and about 20 years. Both occasionally got in the way, but neither was really much of an obstacle. I was always more interested in reading her face than anything on my
Although I worked at The Toronto Sun for seven years, I never got to know the late, great George Gross. I’m sorry about that now, especially after reading the many tributes pouring in after his death from a heart attack this past Friday morning.The internationally renown sports editor was 85. You can read many memories
More behind the scenes “Found Objects” fun over at Harry Shearer’s My Damn Channel. The featured players this time are Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Katie Couric and Chris Matthews, all primping, grousing and chewing gum between takes. Check out O’Reilly working his Fox News vanity mirror. It should come with a warning–“Egos in mirror are
Did CBC jump the gun on that Sophie renewal?Ever since CBC announced they were picking up two of their four January starts, Sophie and The Border, the rookie comedy series, starring Mimi Kuzyk and Natalie Brown, has been sinking like a rock.This Wednesday it was down to 290,000 viewers. That’s a 99,000 drop from the
Global announced today that it is renewing three of its rookie shows: The Guard, ‘Da Kink In My Hair and the summer series The Best Years. Hey, the more Canadian shows the better, jobs are jobs and this news keeps people working in Vancouver and Toronto. But Global’s release suggests that these renewals are “based
This week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson gets into the best reality show on television right now–the U.S. presidential primary elections. Listen to our conversation here.The jumping off point this week is the pivotal speech Barack Obama made in Philadelphia yesterday. Obama addressed race the way John F. Kennedy dealt with his Catholicism in 1960,
Have to admit I don’t watch American Idol all that much (okay, at all), so sitting through two hours of it last night was quite a revelation. As in, when did this show become such a bore?‘Waste of my life,” was my daughter’s reaction. Then again, she’s a Beatle’s fan.Bad enough that the contestants, featured
Numbers are in for how the CBC shows have fared over the first ten weeks of 2008 and the Rick Mercer Report stands at the top of the list, both in total households and in the 25-54-year-old demographic, CBC’s targeted demo.Between Jan. 7 through March 16, the Rick Mercer Report (which featured Anne Murray last