UPDATE: I’m on The National tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC News Network and at 10 p.m. on CBC talkin’ Lucy. Miss Lucy’s 100th? You’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do.TCM has done it again by scheduling a Lucille Ball marathon in honour of the 100th anniversary of her birth. Smart programming–but why doesn’t Comedy Gold,
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.—It’s been a pretty good press tour when you can say you were in on sessions with Harry Belafonte, Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Lewis, Gloria Steinem, Davy Jones, Rosie O’Donnell, Hugh Laurie, Ken Burns, Anna Paquin, Smokey Robinson, Kelsey Grammar, Ted Danson, Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Cameron Crowe, Laura Dern, Al Jean, Sarah Michelle
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Who has the highest Q score in television? The Q score measures the popularity of entertainers. In the past, big names like Tom Hanks and Oprah have been at the top of the list, but the new champion, according to longtime CBS chief reseach whiz David Poltrack, is none other than–drum roll please–Pauley
August 3, 2011 – CBC Television received ringing industry endorsement this morning for its continued contribution to quality Canadian programming, garnering more than eleventy billion-million nominations from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 26th Annual Gemini Awards. Among the ringing accolades for the public broadcaster were six nominations for every vowel in Stroumboulopoulos and
I know what you’re thinking. Another bloody singing talent show. Canada Sings (premiering tonight on Global) is that but it is also more Undercover Boss than The Sing Off. The premise pits two teams of 12 office workers against each other to see if they can learn a Glee-level song and dance routine. In tonight’s
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Apparently Charlie Sheen has left Two and a Half Men. Critics seemed pretty worked up at Wednesday’s CBS executive session, demanding entertainment president Nina Tassler do some sort of pennance for Sheen’s excesses. In past press tours she always stuck up for the dude. This time she just kept saying things like, “who
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Got a minute? Here’s a quick slice of press tour pie, a peek inside the NBCUniversal All-Star party at The Bazaar at the SLS Hotel on La Cienega Blvd.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–It was loud, crowded and hot at Monday night’s NBCUniversal press tour party. Thank you, NBCUniversal!Stars from new and returning NBC shows were bussed to the boisterous press tour party at The Bazaar at the SLS Hotel on S. La Cienega Blvd, a couple of miles east of the press tour hotel. The SLS