It happened early Monday on CTV`s Olympic Morning, as NBC News anchor Brian Williams paid a visit to Canadian Olympic host Brian Williams at the giant international broadcast consortium studios in Vancouver.“Your fake fireplace looks a lot like Bob Costas‘ fake fireplace,” NBC Williams quips to CTV Williams. Watch the entire meeting here at CTVOlympics.ca.The
Last month at press tour, NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin was surrounded by reporters after his executive session. The big story, of course, was the oops-a-daisy do-over with The Tonight Show.At the time, Gaspin had just lobbed a Hail Mary attempt to keep both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien by offering Leno an 11:35 half hour
With apologies to David Letterman, here are the Top 10 Reasons why that Canadian Olympic “Own the Podium” slogan isn’t working out: 10. Bobsledders thought it was “own the per diem”9. Alpine team freaked because wavy medals look like they’ve been left out in the sun8. Super-G team too busy out fighting Super-G crime7. Snowboarders
Are you loving all the Olympic coverage? Do you want to scream every time you hear that bloody “I Believe” ditty?A week in, people are starting to form opinions about the CTV-Rogers consortium as well as the NBC Winter Olympic Games coverage. Tons to say on this topic, much of it bashed into paragraphs here
In Week Two, Boston Rob was near death after eating a bad burrito or something. Jeff Probst gave him a foot massage and that seemed to help, except then Rob started hallucinating. “I respect it too much not to play,” he babbled, red eyes blazing, before pointing at the sky and shouting, “Da planes! Da
Mixed reviews are coming in on Friday night’s three-plus hours Vancouver Olympic Games opening ceremonies. The Toronto Star had their theatre guy Richard Ouzounian review it and he ripped it like a bad opening on Broadway. “They eyes of the world were on us and we put them to sleep” was his lede. Then he
Tonight’s the night, Canada. CTV, Rogers and other members of the broadcast consortium will deliver the first made-in-Canada broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games, live from Vancouver.When I spoke with prime time host Brian Williams earlier this week, he said the facilities at the International Broadcast Centre are “jaw-dropping.” This from
I’ve been tricked into filing a weekly recap of the new Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains which will appear here each Friday morning. I’m the “Rudy” of a panel of experts who will also weigh in each week: Amber Dowling, editor of TV Guide Canada, Michael Bolen, who blogs about Survivor for The National Post at