An extra day spent bringing the cottage into the 21st century (Light switches! Breaker panel!) has me behind in TVFMF postings. But if you find yourself streaming more and more video off the web, and searching for original content, here’s a link to a piece I wrote for the Toronto Star (it ran in Sunday’s
As anyone who reads this blog or read me at The Toronto Sun knows, I’ve never been a fan of Degrassi: The Next Generation. I was too old for the first series, which always looked fairly slapped together to me, like it was shot through a silk stalking with a leg still in it. The
How much did Channel Zero pay for the acquisition of Canwest’s Hamilton E! station, CHCH? Well, with other stations in Canada being shopped around for a dollar these days, the guess is that Channel Zero got a bargain that pretty much lived up to their name.The purchase still needs to be approved by the CRTC
Colleague Eric Deggans told me several years ago he knew how to save Michael Jackson’s recording career. Deggans, the TV/media critic for the St. Petersburg Times of Florida, isn’t just a TV scribe, he’s a former music columnist, so when he talks music, I listen.When Jackson’s 2001 album Invincible came out, it did not have
Mr. TVFMF doesn’t write enough here about his favourite TV channel–Turner Classic Movies. The U.S. cable net–celebrating its 15th year–is a film buff’s dream, smartly programmed with the deepest studio vault in television, and lovingly presented. It is a model for all other specialty channels.We’re already seven days into this month so wanted to point
There are many “Moments of Zen“ associated with the tsunami of Michael Jackson coverage on all forms of media over the past week. The above CNN report on prisoners in the Philippines giving props to the King of Pop is cool and inspiring, if a little bizarre. Other viral MJ junk is just that, including
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced today that, for the 2009-2010 season, it is increasing the Local Program Improvement Fund from $68 million to over $100 million (read the full CRTC release here). On a series of local CBC radio stations today, I’ll be advocating that the lion’s share of that money should go
Sunday night at 8 p.m., both Fox and Global will re-broadcast the third season premiere episode of The Simpsons–the one featuring the voice of Michael Jackson.Whether or not Jackson actually voiced the part of Homer’s mental institution mate Leon Kompowsky went unconfirmed for years. It even made it into my book Truth and Rumors: The