This week, Scott Thompson at CHML asks about my ol’ pal Regis Philbin. Why is he leaving Live? Who is going to replace him? Will daytime TV ever be the same?I put in a request to interview Philbin last July when I was in New York but the word back was he felt it was
Ran into former CTV CEO Ivan Fecan last week at the Air Farce book launch. The most powerful man in Canadian television is keeping a low profile these days. He snuck almost undetected into the back of the CBC atrium to catch Don Ferguson’s speech and grab a few free Tim Bits. It was the
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson starts things off by asking about this new McDonald’s TV deal. Apparently the hamburger chain is launching its own TV network, which will initially broadcast inside its many California restaurants. McDonald’s calculates as many as 18 million people a month will sample the service.Programming won’t just be burger ads. Content
Seems every fall is Cherry picking time. Will CBC fire Grapes? That is CHML Talk Radio host Scott Thompson’s question as we begin this week’s radio podcast. You can listen in here.Seems a few former NHL enforcers are mad at Don for calling them “pukes.” Everybody take a deep breath. Cherry isn’t going anywhere. Who
Could it be true? The Simpsons coming to an end?Scott Thompson starts this week’s CHML radio rant off with this question. Told him I had a tour this summer–along with several other reporte4rs on the TCA press tour–of the animation studio north of Los Angeles where the Simpsons are produced. Executive producer Al Jean led
I know what you’re saying. Where are all those CHML radio podcasts with Scott Thompson? Been behind in posting these suckers lately under a flurry of print deadlines but here is Wednesdays yakkity-yak. Scott wanted to know what I thought about Monday’s second episode of Two and a Half Men, what is the difference between
On this week`s podcast with CHML`s Scott Thompson, we talk about the ridiculousness of the Geminis. Wednesday night`s closing gala was dis-spiriting in a whole new way. The host, Russell Peters, seemed to realize he`d made a big career mistake about 15 seconds into his opening monologue. His jokes about the Canadian TV industry quickly
On this week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we get into the dreaded DC–Digital Conversion. If you woke up this morning, turned on your set and got snow, you either forget to pay your cable bill or you are officially now an analog castaway. Canada has made the switch. A moment of silence, folks, for