The Amazing Race Canada was solidly in first place again as Canada’s most-watched broadcast network series the week of July 11-17. It was one of several reality competition series in Numeris’s weekly Top-30 tally of Canadians ages 2+ as calculated over Live+7 day viewing. Citytv’s simulcast of America’s Got Talent and two episodes of Big
I’ve interviewed hundreds of TV and movie stars. Only one treated me to a full-throated, operatic aria: Paul Sorvino. The New York native, famed for playing gangsters or cops in film (“Goodfellas”) and television (the original Law & Order), passed away July 25 at 83. In 2017, me and a few other reporters met Sorvino
FRI/JULY 22 The Grey Man (Netflix). Directed by the Russo brothers, this $200 million spy thriller stars Ryan Gosling as a top CIA agent who becomes the subject of a man hunt with a former colleague (Christ Evans) in hot pursuit. Ana de Armas, Wagner Moura, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfre Woodard, and Regé-Jean Page also star.
After being parked two years as it waited out the pandemic, The Amazing Race Canada roared back as Canada’s most-watched summer series on broadcast network television. According to Numeris’ Live+7 tally of the Season 8 premiere, close to 1.7 million Canadians got back into the Race. That was close to a half a million more
Next time you are squinting trying to read ingredients on a label, think of Mary Mammoliti. The AMI-tv host and podcaster zips around her kitchen turning out scrumptious dishes and she can barely see at all! Hear her incredible story this week on brioux.tv the podcast. The Toronto resident also talks about the second season
Back in the early ’90’s. before he became a late-night TV host, Conan O’Brien and his Harvard writing pal Greg Daniels (creator of the American version of The Office) decided to take a road trip to Vancouver. Turning on the TV in the hotel, they became mesmerized by this strange Canadian series about a B.C.
I’ve raved about this before, but if you’re not listening to Lucille Ball’s “podcasts” recorded back in the mid-’60s, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do. The recordings are basically a re-edit of radio show conversations Ball had back in 1964-65. These ten-minute radio show episodes have been kept is a vault for years and number
The folks at AMI-tv know how to get my attention — send food in a box. A big white one arrived last week with ingredients to make a pasta dish, which even I should be able to figure out. It’s all in aid of drawing attention to the Season 2 premiere of Dish with Mary,