Attention all school-age snoopers! Production is underway on the third season of Detention Adventure. Aimed at tween viewers, Detention Adventure was CBC’s first original kids scripted series for CBC Gem. The award-winning series follows three nerdy, Grade School seniors who form an unlikely alliance with the school bully. Together, they suffer through various detentions in order
Do you watch and/or collect 16 mm films? For those of us who do, there is a film festival scheduled for July 29-31. It is the 5th annual Western New York Movie Expo. The event, hosted by long-time film collector Alex Bartosh, is being held for the first time at Delavan Hotel and Spa located
Happy birthday to this Canada Day lass, Pamela Anderson. Born on Centennial year, July 1, 1967, she is 54 years of age. Monday, Corus Studios presented a pre-birthday present. The media company announced it had ordered a new reality series from Anderson set to premiere in 2022. Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project (working title) will
As flagged Thursday on the “news burrito”12:36, the reboot of Clone High has its first table read Thursday. This is great news for fans of the hilarious, Canadian-American original which premiered 19 years ago on YTV and MTV. I watched every episode back in the day with my son Dan, now 28, and we both
The Banff World Media Festival hosted, albeit virtually, their 42nd annual Rockie Awards Tuesday. Some quick impressions. The best window to the awards was on YouTube, which provided a glitch-free way to view the festivals’ trophy binge. Find the YouTube link here. As a viewer, I appreciated the swift way each award was presented. Clips
Hey, I get it. Attending the Banff World Media Festival without actually going to Banff is like driving to Las Vegas but then never getting out of your car. What’s the point? Banff, more than any other film and TV festival, is all about the destination itself. It’s the allure of those stunning mountain vistas,
My mobile device keeps reminding me about the No. 1 summer show in Canada for seven straight years — The Amazing Race Canada. The series, from Insight Productions, was an automatic two million-a-week draw for CTV. As a reporter, I was very fortunate to attend several legs of the race, including trips to Vietnam, China,
While, for a few days, the announcement seemed stuck in second gear, Crave finally copped to being the home in Canada for Friends: The Reunion. The unscripted special streams Thursday, May 27 on HBO Max in the US and on Crave in Canada. Last December, Bell Media struck a deal to be the exclusive home