Don Cherry’s been catching plenty of heat for his “pinko” prank at Toronto City Hall earlier this week. Grapes walked in like he was that WikiLeaks guy at a United Nations security council meeting and let everybody have it, right in the nuts. That musta hurt when they all rode their bikes home up Jarvis after the meeting.Hey, all I
Troy (Donald Glover), Abed (Pudi), Duncan (John Oliver) If you’re looking for something a little different–yet also strangely familiar–this Christmas, check out tonight’s cool Yule episode of Community (NBC, City, 8 p.m.). The cast members–cartoon characters at the best of times–have all been rendered as stop-motion puppets in an homage to those classic Rankin-Bass holiday specials
Five years ago, when I was still at the Toronto Sun, we did this terrific tribute to John Lennon on the 25th anniversary of his murder. Those kick-ass special entertainment sections were always very collaborative with all hands contributing copy. Bob Bishop as always did a masterful job designing the section.I got to write the opener, a
It will be hard to imagine Citytv without the boomimg baritone of Mark Dailey. More than any other broadcaster in Canada, he was the voice of his city and his network. The veteran news anchor died today after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Dailey began his career at City in Toronto in 1979.
MNF`s big three: Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford Frank Gifford was asked recently about the current state of the TV broadcast booth. Gifford, one-third of the most famous trio of Monday Night Football announcers (the others being Howard Cosell and Don Meredith), said he wasn’t too impressed. All that boosterism bugged him, he said.
Drew Carey isn’t half the man he ised to be. The once rolly-poly comedian has shed close to 90lbs as regular viewers of The Price is Right can attest. Carey dropped so much weight by the press tour last August that many reporters walked right by him at the CBS evening event. In his tan
The stars of the Canadian series “The Border” Are Canadian TV shows really anti-American? That seemed to be a concern in the wake of the recent WikiLeaks revelations. According to a January, 2008 dispatch from the American Embassy in Ottawa, made public this week, U.S. officials perceived an anti-American bias in some CBC melodramas.This had
“What is it you want, Mary? You want the moon?” Every year around this time, TV networks haul their annual holiday offerings out of the vault. Over 80% of them are reruns from season’s past. Some, like A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966),