CHML’s Scott Thompson starts this week by acknowledging this is a funny time of year in TV land. Sure, news is starting to build about the upcoming fall season, but, asks Scott, is there anything worth watching now? The answer seems to be yes if you’re a Blue Jays fan. Canada’s team is on fire
My usual Monday radio chat with SiriusXM’s Arlene Bynon was moved to Tuesday this week. The sad news comes first as we discuss the breaking story about the death of CBC daytime personality Chris Hyndman. Then Arlene gets right into Jon Stewart’s departure at The Daily Show. (His last show is Thursday on Comedy Central,
Oops they did it again. They aired porn on Hamilton’s CHCH, so naturally Scott Thompson’s could hardly wait to talk about it on this week’s CHML AM900 radio chat. How does hard core pornography just accidently wind up on an afternoon broadcast? At least this time it was only for 5 seconds, but it was
I finally figured out this fascination with awards show nomination announcements. It is catnip for talk radio stations. Who did and didn’t get nominated is the perfect conversation starter for radio hosts. Take Charles Adler, the popular Winnipeg-based host of AM680’s CJOB, heard across Canada in syndication. Charles had me on his show Thursday to talk
What is there left to say about Bill Cosby? News that, 10 years ago, under testimony in a civil trial, he admitted to drugging women for sex should knock any future endorsements or concert revenues out of that Jello-O tree. Word that Whoopi Goldberg is standing by the man for now seems more about the
It looked like I was going to be able to just comb over the latest Donald Trump dealio until Scott Thompson brought it up on this week’s CHML AM900 radio chat. The real estate tycoon knows how to steal a slow news cycle with his hilarious summer run for the White House. That some polls put
The confederate flag flap has given The Daily Show and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a week’s worth of WTF gold. At the risk of wading in way over my head I wrap myself into the controversy. I’m actually drawn into it with Scott Thompson on this week’s weekly AM900 CHML radio chat. Scott credits
Every Monday around 5:45 p.m. ET I join Arlene Bynon for ten minutes of TV talk on her SiriusXM radio show. Find it on Canada Talks channel 167. Most week’s I’m calling it in from Brampton. Off the phone line I sound like I’m speaking through a silk stalking with a leg still in it.