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We have a lucky winner in the Paul Blart: Mall Cop DVD contest. It is Parveer! Please send your full name and mailing address to [email protected] and a brand new copy of the Kevin James comedy will be sent directly to you courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Thanks to all who entered, look for future

Has there ever been a bigger false cause in Canada than CTV`s “Save Local TV” campaign? What the hell am I saving again–the right for rich guys to simulcast Lost?It just doesn’t pass the sniff test, especially with the cable companies, who have decided to call CTV on it: today, Rogers, CTV`s old business partner

From time to time TVFMF is sent a copy of the latest TV related DVD release. One that arrived this month was The Dana Carvey Show, a short-lived series from the mid-’90s that hit stores earlier this month.To be honest, the series barely registered when it arrived. My teens were also surprised that Garth from

Holy Lord, the season has just ended and already nobody’s watching TV anymore.Makes sense in Toronto where the weather is B-E-You-tiful. But gad, that no hockey for a whole week in May thing just ain’t working for CBC.Last night’s numbers speak for themselves: an oddly-placed, Wednesday night rerun of This Hour Has 22 Minutes drew

This is the time of year when it’s way more fun writing about television than watching it. The U.S. network upfront week in New York isn’t the gold-plated media circus it once was (what is?), but it’s still beats the hell out of Jon & Kate Plus 8.Take Jimmy Kimmel, for instance. The late night

The Legion of Decency: YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!Man, veteran screenwriter Jim Henshaw writes a blistering, mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore humdinger of a screed about the Canadian network meetings before the CRTC in Ottawa over the past few weeks. Click straight to it on the above link to his blog, The Legion of Decency.There is a lot at

The series that started the cross border production boom–Flashpoint–failed to make the cut on CBS’s just-announced fall schedule.CBS unveiled their 2009-10 network schedule today and there were some surprises. But for the Canadian production community–and especially CTV–the biggest may be the omission of Flashpoint, which has been replaced next season on Friday nights stateside by