When a TV series ends, it can be an emotional day for the cast and crew. After several seasons’ worth of long days on sets and locations, a production team often bonds together like family. For some, this means they can’t wait to get the heck out of there. For others, the idea of not
Almost exactly one year ago, in April of 2019, I wrote about my visit to North Bay, Ont., on the closing day of the final episode of the CTV series Cardinal. I was happy to go; I’d had the good fortune to be invited a few times before, including during the first season when the
Tuesday night, France is going to the dogs. Dog, that is — Rex from Hudson & Rex — as the St. John’s-based, canine detective series travels off shore and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the French territory of the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Citytv airs the fall finale Tuesday at 8
Here’s the great irony of Canadian TV: I was in Montreal earlier this week on the set of Transplant, a medical drama set to premiere early next year on CTV. It’s about a Syrian refugee played by Hamza Haq (The Indian Detective) returning to his medical training roots as a resident in the emergency ward
Today, Oct. 30, is National Publicist Day. I know it’s true because a publicist told me so. Thanks to two in particular who helped bring this day to my attention: Lisa Ghione and Sue Baldaro. I’ve worked with both for years and in the last few weeks alone they’ve guided me through separate, on-location jaunts
One of the more fascinating things I observed last week on location with Hudson & Rex was just how much Diesel was into his job. That would be Diesel vom Burgimwald, a magnificent, three-year-old german shepherd. He plays Rex on the series, which returns for its second season this Tuesday night at 8/7c on Citytv. I
What a dirty trick! Trish and Amy from Etobicoke were eliminated on Tuesday’s episode of The Amazing Race Canada after being asked to perform an almost impossible task: math! The six teams remaining in the race had to travel to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to solve a gravity-based algebra equation. This involved dropping
This Tuesday’s episode of The Amazing Race Canada finds the remaining six teams running through what’s become known as Canada’s Silicon Valley — the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Southwest Ontario. That was close enough for me to drive over to from Brampton as I joined a few other journalists last May during production on this, the