On a day when he was deflecting persistent questions about his citizenship, U.S. president Barack Obama turned up in the strangest place–the start of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour.TCA’s summer sessions began today in Pasadena, Calif., and Obama appeared via video in a session for his campaign chum, George Lopez. Lopez was live
Ratings for the CBC miniseries The Summit didn’t exactly hit any peaks last Sunday. Part One scored 415,000 viewers according to overnight BBM Canada estimates. Part Two of the political thriller, starring Bruce Greenwood as a defiant Canadian PM and Christopher Plummer as a prickly U.S. president, airs this Sunday.Other recent ratings numbers across Canada:
On this week’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we touch on news of a Seinfeld reunion on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb‘s Larry David, who co-created Seinfeld–considered one of the if not the funniest TV sitcom of all time–is going to have Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards all on his
Tonight, Hell’s Kitchen–the No. 1 show in the greater Toronto market last summer–returns to Fox and Citytv. The sixth edition opens with a two hour premiere at 8 p.m. Hell’s Kitchen also launches a new feature here at TVFMF–video reviews. These weekly “Box Score” reviews will tell you in one minute whether or not a
In general, TV critics are a pretty jaded bunch. Some of us have seen a few generations of Jonas Brothers, for example, come and go. Every once in a while, however, a real TV heavyweight makes a stop at one of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tours in Los Angeles and everybody remembers why
Denis Leary knew he was handing Michael J. Fox another Emmy nomination when he asked his pal to shoot five episodes of Rescue Me this season. When I was down in New York on the set of Rescue Me in April, Leary joked that Fox would walk off with another statue. “F-in’ guy, already has
If you missed last night’s historic Paul McCartney/David Letterman summit, here are a few clips. It is cool to see Letterman behave like a fan. He got in his share of dumb guy questions, such as, “Were you guys nice to Ringo?” But he did managed to get McCartney to share a few less-traveled stories.
Why read reviews of TV shows when you can watch them–along with video clips of the show being reviewed? That’s the idea behind Box Score, my brand spankin’ new video feature. The first review, a look at the return of Hell’s Kitchen (Tues., July 21 at 8/7c on Fox and Citytv) is up right now