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