I wasn’t crazy about Monday’s first episode of 18 to Life (starring Stacey Farber and Michael Seater, right) and said so here. A “scribbler” associated with the show took exception to some of my cheap, smarmy remarks and, in the interest of fair play and in the spirit of the New Year, I’m moving his
Canadians overwhelmingly chose to ring in the new year with the Canadian Junior men’s hockey team.TSN scored a whopping 3,271,000 viewers with their broadcast of the Canada/USA New Year’s Eve nail biter, double the audience the show pulled last year on the pre-PPM scale (1,673,000).The international hockey summit swamped everything else on the tube Dec.
There was an old story, perhaps apocryphal, about the famed New York theatre critic Clive Barnes. Someone asked why he always was kind to the first play he reviewed at the start of every season, to which Barnes supposedly replied, “Who am I to stone the first cast.”Which brings us to tonight’s debut of the
What better way to start off a new year at TV Feeds My Family than with a recipe, right?Get out your pots and pans because that’s what’s on this week’s menu thanks to the folks behind the new CBC daytime series Best Recipes Ever.The new daily Canadian cooking series kicks off Monday, Jan. 4 at
It‘s always good to spend New Year`s Eve with friends and that‘s how CBC has set things up tonight.End of the year specials featuring The Royal Canadian Air Farce and Ron James get things rolling at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. (the Air Farce special repeats at midnight). Spoke with James earlier this week and
At the end of every year, Turner Classic Movies always does such a classy job of saluting the movie folks who have passed away over the past 12 months. They’ve done it again in the above clip, saluting such luminaries as Karl Malden, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine and Natasha Richardson. Great writers such
The Fox PR department certainly knows how to reach critics where they live–and eat. Last week, these handy and durable American Idol TV trays were shipped to critics across North America, a subtle reminder that the Fox talent search juggernaut launches a ninth season Tuesday, Jan. 12 and Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Another year-end blast of best and worst for 2009, this time out of Hamilton via CHCH’s Live @ 5:30. Tune in Tuesday, Dec. 29 as Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly quiz me on the hit and misses for the year.One of the most positive stories of all in 2009 was the acquisition of ‘CH by