The annual winter gathering of television critics had been sputtering for a day-and-a-half. It isn’t until HBO that things start to get serious. The first bit of news was that Game of Thrones returns April 12. Veep and Silicon Valley also return the same day. HBO also announced it was ordering two more seasons of Real Time
Jack Black made the scene Thursday at TCA. He was before critics to help promote The Brink, a political satire series coming later this year to HBO. Tim Robbins and, be still my heart, Carla Gugino, are also in the cast. Gugino will be back at TCA next week to promote the upcoming Twin Peaks-like series,
“Hats off” to my daughter Katie for spotting this: Tim Reid was sporting a state trooper stetson 35 years before Pharrell made them hip. Over the holidays, I was schooling Katie on the art of WKRP in Cincinnatii from the Shout! Factory DVD complete series box set. We were getting into the classic “Fish Story” episode, the
HOLLYWOOD–Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Bill Maher on his ABC late night show Wednesday and the two wasted no time getting into the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris. Maher has raised eyebrows lately with his outspoken denunciation of Muslims who he says support terrorism. I was at the taping and interviewed Kimmel later in his office. He
Have you signed up for Hollywood Suite yet? You get several movie channels with hundreds of titles hand-picked by picky industry experts, all in Hi-Def and uncut. Plus the service is all-Canadian and cheaper than Netflix! Which is my way of saying thanks to Hollywood Suite boss David Kines for inviting me for the second year in
They may not have national NHL rights, but TSN still can lay claim to hockey bragging rights. The Bell-owned sports specialty network scored an astounding 5,885,000 overnight, estimated viewers with Monday night’s Gold Medal World Junior Championship game between Canada and Russia. It didn’t hurt that what looked like a blowout turned into a nail biter.
Sure, there’s a hockey game on, but for some folks, the big news Sunday night is the fifth season North American premiere of Downton Abbey (9 p.m. on PBS). Now, this isn’t so much a spoiler alert as a spoilsport alert: I’m not that much interested in Downton Abbey. I’m actually more interested, still, in
Back in late September, when I was in Winnipeg visiting the set of Sunnyside, the moon fell out of the sky. That’s what the scene called for at least. A bunch of us were outside, late at night, in the dark. Actors and crew were gathered in the street and there was a great deal of commotion