It has been a wild week at Corus Entertainment. All was well last Wednesday when the Canadian media company hosted their annual Upfront to advertisers. By Friday, they had to issue a release addressing some shocking news: Warner Bros Discovery was not going to renew their long-standing specialty channel brand relationships with Corus beyond the
Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO Channing Dungey will return to the Banff International Media Festival this June as a keynote speaker. Dungey, who once described herself as “a TV junkie who somehow scored a backstage pass,” has shepherded such shows as Ted Lasso and Abbott Elementary while at Warners. Prior to arriving at
Series creator and star Mark Critch needed to replicate the bridge of the original Star Trek Enterprise for a fantasy sequence on his St. John’s-based sitcom Son of a Critch. The episode airs this Tuesday, January 16 on CBC. Who did Critch beam aboard to do the job? None other that my guest this week on
The CBC Monday released the dates of their winter 2024 schedule for new and returning series. There was no waiting around for writers and actors strikes to be settled for these homegrown series to premiere. All are set to air on the home network and will also be streaming on CBC Gem. Among their new
CBS announced Thursday that they will be saluting TV legend Dick Van Dyke with a special marking the occasion of his 98th birthday. The Mary Poppins star will be celebrated Thursday, Dec. 21, on “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic” (CBS; Paramount+). The two-hour special will take viewers back to the set of The
The SAG/AFTRA Guilds announced this week that they have reached an agreement with producers and studios that will end the six month-long writer-actor strike. Reports indicate that the deal should be ratified by the middle of next week. That is great news for folks working in television. Nanny Fran (Drescher, the Guild president) dug in
Hey, if Marie Dresler has waited this long, what’s another nine months? Nominations were announced Tuesday for the 2024 Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. Among the nominees is Marie Dressler, one of the biggest names from the early days of sound features. Dressler was the No. 1 box office attraction in the world back when
On Thursday, CBC announced 40 original shows primed and ready for The CW. Among the new offerings are the new workplace comedy One More Time starring deaf comedian D.J. Demers as a hearing-impaired manager of a “Play-it-Again”-like sporting goods store. Blackberry is a three-episode miniseries airing this fall and focusing on real-life entrepreneurs Mike Lazaridis