BUDAPEST, HUNGARY–Came all the way to Hungary for a tour of ancient Rome.Francois Seguin, the production designer of the upcoming CTV/Showtime series The Borgias, gave a walking tour Friday of the impressive sets he has designed and supervised over the past six months. The Borgias, which stars Jeremy Irons as a scheming 15th century pontiff, is shot
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA–A tour of the famed Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires brings tourists to the tomb of famed national heroine Evita Peron. A cemetery seems like an unlikely tourist attraction, but Ricoleta, which is mobbed by tourists on the weekends and ringed by colourful market stalls, is right up there with Tango shows and Gaucho
Fur was flying: Dennis Thomas BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA–One of the Canadian contestants taking part In Fruday’s taping of Wipeout Canada had to be taken to hospital after suffering a non-life threatening injury. Dennis Thomas, a full blood First Nations native Canadian from North Vancouver, injured a leg while attempting a swinging jump during the
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA–Hola! Some quick first impressions of Buenos Aires after an exhausting walkabout, This expansive South American city struck me as very New York circa early ’70s mixed with LA palms and European cobblestones–like a giant Mad Men set. You think the Gardner crawls with all that bridge work in Toronto, try Beunos Aires traffic.
Hoping to run into Pampero Firpo as I make my way down to Argentina today. The “Wild Bull of the Pampas” would be right at home at the site of Wipeout Canada, which is apparently located somewhere in suburban Buenos Aires. Global is flying a few Canadian journalists (do the bean counters at Shaw know about this?) down to see our finest compete in
Kodjoe and Mbatha-Raw: if only they were better looking It’s tough on a new show when high expectations aren’t immediately met in the ratings. That challenge seems to be dogging Undercovers right now. I was on the set of the NBC series in Burbank last week. The fourth episode airs tonight at 8 p.m. on
Mom/daughter Racers Andie & Jenna Catching up on some numbers over the past week. MONDAY saw Battle of the Blades slip below the million mark for the results show (an overnight, estimated 969,000) giving little lift to Men with Brooms, which continues to get swept aside against Monday competition (258,000). A new Just for Laughs
And you thought cigarettes were addictive. Mad Men ends tonight for another year. Thirteen episodes fly by so fast. Season four has been terrific and Jon Hamm should be singled out for showing Don Draper both cornered and cowardly as well as cocky and confident–not an easy trick given the character’s almost pathological reserve. Hamm keeps losing the