The Emmy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning (for a complete list go here) and Glee is among the big winners so far. Maybe for the first half of the season, I’m thinking. If there was a category honoring shows that jumped the shark with blinding speed, Glee would vault to the top of that
CHML’s Scott Thompson asked about my great skate with Bob Probert, the ex-Red Wing and Blackhawk who died earlier this week at 45. I wrote about it here earlier this week.I’ve received word from a few of the guys who were in on that Deer Lake, Nfld., Rent-a-Goalie game over the past few days and
The show was called Downfall and it premiered Tuesday night on ABC and CTV. Downfall of Western civilization is more like it.The game show takes place on the roof of a Los Angeles office building. The studio audience, contestants and host Chris Jericho (right–appropriately enough from the WWE) are all up there. Down the middle
Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know if I was excited about the prospect of an all new, right wing 24-hour news channel in Canada. “I haven’t been this excited,” I tell Scott, “since Kent Brockman won an Emmy.”Still, as Brockman would say, this reporter smells a story. Quebecor expects to launch Sun TV News
I think I’m starting to see how CHML’s Scott Thompson does this. He reads my postings here and then he gets me all stirred up about stuff I wrote. Like the Canadian private network upfronts, which took place last week in Toronto. Why aren’t there more new Canadian scripted shows on Global, Roger and CTV
Scott Thompson has to ask: “Why are the Canadian networks running down to the States and spending all this money again?” It is a question that just won’t go away after a week of American show previews during another round of Canadian private network upfront presentations. I try to answer, but Scott only has me
Scott Thompson at CHML Talk Radio reports that there are TV trucks all over the streets of Hamilton. That’s because the QEW commuterville offers better tax incentives than Toronto to producers scouting Ontario locations.The sci-fi thriller Blood of Pegasus starring Nazneen Contractor and Rae Dawn Chong just wrapped there, and the sexy Showcase series Lost
Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s CHML wanted to know all about the upfronts on this week’s podcast. We talk about CBS’s bold move switching Survivor out of Thursdays to make room for the Big Bang Theory. (A move that Survivor creator Mark Burnett is not too happy about, by the way.) Scott also wonders why Jim