Tuesday’s Rick Mercer Report on CBC soared to 1,548,000 viewers according to overnight estimates–a record high for the series. Maybe it had something to do with Mercer’s spot-on rant about those creepy attack ads being run by the Conservatives: Mercer’s latest success lifted follow-up 8:30 comedy InSecurity to its highest level in three weeks at
LeLanne (left) meets 98lb weakling News of the passing yesterday of Jack LaLanne at 96 brought me back to my encounter with the famous fitness guru 13 years ago at the Hollywood Collectors Show. LaLanne was just 83 then but he was still probably the oldest guy in the room. He was probably the fittest, too. The Hollywood
Wendie Malick was in Toronto Friday to promote the second season premiere in Canada of Hot in Cleveland (tonight at 8 p.m., CTV). Malick’s no stranger to Toronto. She was born across the lake in Amherst, N.Y., and grew up in picturesque Williamsville, both just outside of Buffalo. Her family used to summer on our shores.
Pilkington (middle): Idiot People ask: you were just down at TCA, TV boy. What are the hot new shows? After saying, “Mister TV Boy to you,” I usually say I like what I’ve seen so far from The Borgias, that Matt LeBlanc is surprisingly effective in Episodes and I also like what I’ve seen of his
John Noble says working the twin storyline this season on Fringe has been a “delicious” challenge. “As an actor, I just love taking risks,” he says. “Anything they’ve thrown at me, I’ve just grabbed it.”I chatted with the 62-year-old Australian on the phone yesterday in advance of tonight’s mid-season return of Fringe, which was has
One of the joys of working the TCA press tour in Pasadena earlier this month was chatting with the cheery cast members of Outsourced. The NBC comedy has defied early predictions to emerge as a success story this season, especially creatively. Back before it launched, when I asked my teenage son Daniel if he found the pilot hilarious
CBC’s Stewart: not big on numbers at the moment Yesterday in the Globe and Mail, CBC entertainment president Kirstine Stewart suggested she was going to get rid of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune and get the public network back to all-Canadian happy land. Stewart knows this plays well with Globe readers, including the political movers
Leave it to Piers Morgan to explain why he and all he other blunt Brits do so well on American TV. Morgan was at the cable portion of press tour over a week ago to promote the launch tonight of his new series Piers Morgan Tonight (CNN, 9 p.m.). Morgan, of course, is replacing two