Security breach: deep inside London’s CIA bunker Jack Bauer? He’s not so hard to find. Monday’s debut of 24: Live Another Day (Fox, Global) would have you believe Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has been a fugitive in Europe for four years, or since the last episode of Season 8 aired in 2010. Suddenly he turn up
Newstalk 1010’s Mike Bullard Sometimes in this TV beat racket it’s best just to lob a few hand grenades and step back and watch stuff happen. Such was the plan last week when I wrote a column for The Canadian Press calling for CBC to get back into the late night television talk show game.
Tori Spelling is back in the news and I got dragged in with her. John Doyle writes in Monday’s Globe and Mail about Spelling’s latest series on Lifetime, True Tori (Tuesdays at 10 p.m.). The series sounds so reach-y I have not given it a sniff, but its apparently about how Spelling and her Canadian
“Honey, can I borrow your face for a step ladder for a moment?” By now you’ve seen this ad for Next Issue, Rogers’ on-line magazine service: A young couple walk through a busy airport (Terminal 1 at Toronto’s Pearson). The woman can’t be without her giant stack of current magazines so her whipped boyfriend tows
Sun scribe Bill Harris (left) with TV Guide Canada editor Amber Dowling and hubby Brandon Hlynsky. The two in uniform met on a baseball diamond The Blue Jays lost by a converted touchdown, but that didn’t stop the media party in the owner’s suite at the Rogers Centre Thursday night. The folks at Rogers Media/City
Canadians. They’re sneaking into TV shows again. Sunday, for the second week in a row, a Canuck was stealing scenes on Mad Men. That was JAG lead David James Elliott as David Wooster, Don Draper’s luncheon date near the beginning of the episode. Elliott was disguised behind those horn rims, unlike Neve Campbell, who was
This camera–and network–has seen better days Dear Mr. Lacroix. I’m not sure this open letter will reach you before some CBC middle manager deletes all links to TV Feeds My Family–if they haven’t already. But here goes. It’s the day after, and CBC has taken another shot to the nuts. The news you had to
Colbert (right) in a 2011 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman Bill Carter has told me for at least two years that Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman. On Thursday, CBS made it official. As Carter, the author of The War for Late Night as well as The Late Shift, would point out, Colbert