McCallum in the ’60s Quick: name an actor or actress who was a top star on a hit show in the mid-’60s and is starring on a hit show today.Okay, the photos kinda give it away. The answer is David McCallum, who starred opposite Robert Vaughn as Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in The Man from
Are modern TV critics stuck on a hamster wheel? Recapping themselves into “becoming either burned out or a hack”? Turning into “fan-cum-critics” too smitten with stars and showrunners?Matt Zoller Seitz (left) addresses how TV journalists are, like almost everybody else these days, reinventing themselves in a lively and thoughtful column at Vulture.Seitz is the TV
“Dick Van Dyke rescued from burning car.” There’s a headline that will get your attention. The 87-year-old actor has survived marriage to a 40-year-old and even headaches from his giant titanium teeth. Now he’s getting pulled out of a flaming Jaguar on a Los Angeles freeway. I blame tripping over that auto-man all those years
Just over two years ago, I met Lee Thompson Young on the set of Rizzoli & Isles. It was reported Monday that the 29-year-old actor has taken his own life.Just as when Cory Monteith was found dead earlier this year, the news seems unbelievable. Why would this young man, working on a hit TV show,
If you haven’t been watching Orphan Black on Space, catch up with one of the most talked-about shows and performances in North America Friday night on CTV. Tatiana Maslany so wowed critics with her Streep-like range on this Toronto-based thriller she beat Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad two weeks ago at the Television Critics Association
Wrote a story about this guy Pablo Schreiber in an article that appeared in Thursday’s Toronto Star.Seems he’s the half-brother of Liev Schreiber. Seems he was once on one of the best TV shows ever, The Wire. Seems he’s the busiest star on TV, or will be in just over a month when he’ll be
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve spoken with CHML’s Scott Thompson. This week, we got caught up on the recent TCA summer 2013 press tour in Los Angeles and what was for me the highlight–my dinner with Jimmy Kimmel.Have to thank Neal Justin from the Minneapolis Star Tribune for pulling this caper together. Neal
Bones‘ creator Hanson (middle) flanked by stars Deschanel and Boreanaz So there I was last week, hobnobbing at L.A.’s SoHo Club with a room full of famous Fox folk, when who do I spot but Hart Hanson.I had a great chat with the Canadian-raised creator and showrunner of Bones a year earlier when we both