Jay Leno was his jokey self on his first day back to work Monday night. Leno missed two nights of The Tonight Show last week–the first two sick days ever for the late night iron man–after recording a temperature of 103 degrees provoking an overnight trip to the hospital. “I ate a raw pig brought
I very much enjoyed Friday’s low key Spectacle visit with James Taylor. The man’s voice is still smooth as silk and his stories were smart and genuine. He seemed to bring out the best in host Elvis Costello, too, both in the duets and in the questions which were thoughtful and original. Costello brought Taylor
“You’re a poker player. That’s beyond white trash.”Joan Rivers spat that at Annie Duke on Sunday night`s electric, best ever episode of Celebrity Apprentice.Rivers ripped into the World Series of Poker champion after her daughter Melissa–beyond mommy’s protection on the opposing team–was fired by Donald Trump in a tense, edgy catfight of a board room
When it comes to feeling the full impact of the recession, nobody is feeling it like the TV business, which has lost millions of dollars in ad revenue. CBC has announced it is cutting back on the number of episodes it will order this year on shows like Little Mosque on the Prairie and This
Every spring, broadcasters hearts and minds turn to, not love, but pilots. One by one, they take off south of the border and TV execs fall in love with them all over again. U.S. programmers decide which ones make their schedules. Then Canadian programmers fly south, spend $700 million-plus, and bring as many as they
TV Turnoff Week has never been more of a turn off. Imagine this year if they held a Boycott Car Dealerships Week or Stop Buying Newspapers Week. Talk about kicking an industry when it is down.Nevertheless, here we are in the middle of TV Turnoff Week (April 20-26). Holding it every year during this fourth
Plenty to cover this week with CHML Talk Radio`s Scott Thompson. We both agreed that last Friday’s Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… worked better than the first two outings of this series thanks to the many musical guests, including chatty Roseanne Cash. Scott also wanted to know the story behind Rick Moranis bowing out of the
Another day, another announcement about Canadian-produced TV shows for the fall. Maybe the sky isn’t falling after all, at least not in Toronto.The news comes from cash-strapped Canwest Global, which just launched the animated series Bob & Doug and has The Dealership and other projects in production for fall. Screw that $4.1 billion debt, let’s