Meant to post up here a few times this weekend, but, damn, summer finally snuck in under the wire at the completely unplugged cottage by the lake. The view west Sunday night toward Huron Fishing Islands’ Whitefish, Cigar and Lonely from Rutherford’s Point. Simply incredible.
There’s glee at Global as the rebroadcast of last spring’s Glee pilot played to 1,040,000 Canadians according to overnight BBM estimates.And while the usual crime shows on CTV topped it nationally in households (Criminal Minds drew 1,399,000), Glee won the hour among viewers 18-49, 585,000 to 560,000.The second helping of Glee did not do as
Ever get a premonition that somebody’s going to die?I honestly felt that way last month at press tour listening to Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, the top club spinner who was found dead last Friday morning at his New York City apartment, the apparent victim of a drug overdose.Goldstein nearly died a year ago. Last
Scott Thompson was off on holiday with his wife last week and didn’t they just go out and enjoy a Mad Men Season One DVD marathon. We talk about how great that series is (and how it is driving new business in Canada to iTunes) on today’s CHML Talk Radio TV chat, you can listen
Paradise Falls–you can’t kill it with a stick.The steamy Canadian prime time soap returns for a third season tonight, but few shows have had such an on-again, off-again production schedule. Set in Ontario’s cottage country, Paradise Falls began in mid-2001 and lurches into this season with 26 new episodes that were shot two years ago
Had the good fortune earlier this year to be invited to take part in a TV party that’s been turned into a TV series. The show is called Switch and it premieres tonight at 9:30 on TVTropolis.So–full disclosure–I’m in on this deal. This isn’t the most objective review, but, hey, what can I say, I
Memo to Teletoon: Might want to review those Robot Chicken reruns before you throw them on the air. At 10:15 tonight, I watched a Ted Kennedy doll go on a killing spree with a Jenna Jameson porn star doll. The late Massachusetts senator, just laid to rest Saturday, was shown wading into a bar, helping
Maybe Brad Schwartz is right. The Sr. V.P. and GM of MuchMusic raised hackles last week when he proudly declared that the station would be doing “absolutely nothing to celebrate our 25th anniversary. “Now a division of the CTV “broken business plan” fun factory, MuchMusic hit the air exactly 25 years ago today, on August