Sutherland senior: where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? What seems most jarring to these failing eyes are the sex scenes in today’s modern miniseries. While The Thorn Birds seemed racy in its day, Father Ralph and that Aussie chick were merely playing patty fingers in the Holy water compared to the sword and sandal sizzle
Degrassi’s move to MuchMusic was a win-win for CTV. The 10th season premiere, kicking off a reformatting of the series as a nightly soap, drew 218,000 viewers to MuchMusic Monday according to overnight estimates. A quarter million viewers across Canada was about what Degrassi was down to Sundays at 7 on CTV. Overnight, the teen
Ever wanted to travel Route 66? The fabled U.S. highway, which more or less cuts diagonally from Chicago to California, was popularized in song and even a cool little TV series a half century ago. Bypassed by super highways and Interstate routes today, it is very much a broken path. That hasn’t stopped Rob Salem (above) and
Degrassi is no longer a generational thing. The series begins its 10th season on a new network (MuchMusic), in a new, nightly, serialized format (Mondays to Thursdays at 9 p.m.) and with a new title (just, plain, Degrassi, goodbye The Next Generation). With the original franchise dating back to 1979, they’d soon have had to
Been up to the shores of Lake Huron lately at the decidedly unplugged cottage and behind in my blogging. Here are a few recent Canadian TV headlines of note:18 to Life: The CBC sitcom (starring Stacey Farber and Michael Seater, right) has been picked up for a summer run in the U.S. The romantic comedy
Monday through Thursday this week, Live! with Regis and Kelly does Canada (9 a.m., CTV). The talk show is doing four shows from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and Regis Philbin sounded pretty pumped about it when I spoke with him last week.“After hearing everybody rave about the place I can’t wait to see it,” said
The dollar’s at par, the weather is stinkin’ hot and the recent G20 summit reduced Toronto to a traffic-snarled lock down zone. So what’s with all the TV production trucks?Hogtown has once again become Hollywood North. TV production is booming across the GTA and even beyond into Hamilton, Orangeville and Port Hope.Some are American cable
CTV announced Friday that Lisa LaFlamme will replace Lloyd Robertson as anchor of the CTV National News.The move came after months of speculation. LaFlamme, a 20-year veteran at the network (she began her career as CKCO in Kitchener-Waterloo), was showcased to good effect on CTV’s Winter Olympic Games coverage.“To follow in the footsteps of Lloyd