The trouble with network conference calls is you wind up with a whole bunch of people writing basically the same story. That’s the case this weekend as features emerge leading up to Betty White‘s appearance as host tonight on Saturday Night Live (NBC, Global, 11:29 p.m.). The 88-year-old TV icon took questions from critics a
Russell continues to put on a psychology 101 clinic with his direct divide and conquer shenanigans. He completely pulled Parvati’s pants down at the second tribal council Thursday night, taking her pawn Danielle (right) out of the game like she was Ovechkin in the first round of the playoffs.Crying, of course, is grounds for dismissal
When did Glee turn into an excuse for executive producer Ryan Murphy to re-make his favourite music videos of the ’80s? A week after the cloying Madonna episode, Murphy hooked the auto-tune up once again to breakout comedy star Jane Lynch. In another whopper of a plot twist, Lynch’s Sue Sylvester gets a call from
This week’s episode of Bones is written by the inspiration behind Temperance “Bones” Brennan–Kathy Reichs. The author of 13 Temperance Brennan novels, Reichs is an actual forensic anthropologist and she has a Canadian connection. She has worked the past 20 years at the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de medecine legale for the province of
Conan O’Brien’s 60 Minutes Inner Monologue – watch more funny videos Check out Conan O’Brien‘s “inner monologue” during Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment as envisioned by the folks over at Funny or Die. I can’t help thinking that this would be even wicked funnier if it was mashed over at Jimmy Kimmel Live.
I learned a long time ago that if you wanted to get in on a scoop at the TCA press tour, stand next to Alan Pergament. The Buffalo News TV critic (above right, a few years ago at the now defunct L.A. Friar’s Club with long time TCAers Margie Barron, Dusty Saunders and Ed Bark)
Remember those self-serving “Save Local TV” and “Stop the TV Tax” ads? Remember how the CRTC resolved everything by throwing the carriage fee stink bomb back in the laps of the cable giants and networks and basically said, sort it out yourselves?Well, they did. Global should be able to count on a pretty fair carriage
If Hugh Hefner can save the Hollywood sign, can somebody please save the Westwood sign?The distinct Etobicoke landmark has sat atop the old Westwood Theater at the south-east spoke of the Six Points since the ‘50s. Growing up in the west end of Toronto, it was my neighbourhood movie house. Many a Saturday afternoon was