Appearing on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 this afternoon (at, yes, 5:30) to talk about the best and worst shows for fall. Regular hosts Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly are both taking the day off, so I’ll be quizzed by my old pal Lawrence Diskin, who also produces the show. My picks for best new comedies
CHML’s Scott Thompson and me, Bill Brioux–two mad men talking about Mad Men. You can listen in here. Specifically how the acclaimed AMC series seems to have broken through to a large U.S. audience in Season Three. Think CTV might be singing a new iTune and wishes it had picked it up now? Think again.
If you’ve been checking in on this blog for any time now (and thanks, both of you), you know that Mr. TV Feeds My Family is a bit of a film nut. Those annual winter trips to Syracuse, N.Y. for Cinefest are for hard core, gotta be on 16mm, devotees of early sound and silent
Figures. Just when CTV drops Mad Men, it becomes a hit.The Emmy-, Golden Globe- and TCA-Award-winning AMC drama drew 2.76 million viewers for Sunday night’s Season Three debut according to overnight Nielsen estimates. That’s the highest U.S. number ever for a single episode and 33% higher than last season’s AMC opener.Last season’s 13 episodes averaged
“I’m shocked,” said Matt Weiner, when I told him CTV had dropped Mad Men in Canada.The creator and executive producer of the coolest show on TV had no idea CTV was no longer carrying his hit series when I spoke with him late last month on the first day of press tour.Weiner and several stars
That McDonalds ad where the little girl approaches Canadian Olympic figure skater Patrick Chan for an autograph? Really?You’ve seen the spot. This little curly-topped cutie asks Chan to make the beyond ironic McDonalds Olympic sport water bottle (“do you want fries with that?”) out to “Mommy.” Bad enough that the spot is so forced and
Woodstock, man. 40 years ago this weekend. Three days of peace, love and inadequate toilet facilities. I’ll never forget hitching a ride down to Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, N.Y. way back in ’69… wait a minute, I wasn’t there. I was a kid.Any way, Joan Baez was there, as she reminded critics at PBS’s
Despite the fact that it is the middle of summer, there was plenty of hockey talk on the TCA press tour. A lot of it came out of the session for ABC’s The Forgotten. Executive producer and hockey nut Jerry Bruckheimer let slip that he cast Christian Slatter in the drama after a post game