Not much of a fight, this Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer showdown on Thursday night’s edition of The Daily Show. The two have been sniping at each other all week on their TV shows. But CNBC Mad Money host Cramer simply turtled on Stewart’s turf, letting the comedian rip Cramer a new hedge fund. While
Spent parts of the past two days checking out Convenience U, or “Con U” as the natives call it. It’s billed as “Canada’s National Convenience, Gas and Car Wash Event.”The Toronto confab, located near the airport, is a surreal mix of convention displays, everything from giant car wash railings and hoses to state-of-the-art gas pumps
This week on Talk Radio CHML with Scott Thompson, we get into all the new digital channels getting approved by the CRTC, including that new obituary channel coming out of Quebec. People are just dying to get on there! TV for dead people? Doesn’t Jeopardy! already own that demo?Also this B.S. about networks canceling your
Those cheeky monkeys at This Hour Has 22 Minutes went ahead and aired Geri Hall‘s ambush of Dalton McGuinty tonight. Apparently the studio audience in Halifax who screened the edited clip last night weren’t mortally offended. Curious to see the bit from the actual 22 Minutes P.O.V. instead of that raw feed that circulated through
CBC announced today they were pulling the plug on their daytime lifestyles program Steven and Chris. The designer duo were coming in a poor third behind soaps and reruns on CTV and Global. A check of recent numbers showed the series pulling 59,000, 72,000, 83,000 across Canada at 2 p.m. E.T. in recent outings. Yesterday’s
Read all this trash talk about Geri Hall and This Hour Has 22 Minutes and had to weigh in. People seemed to be hyperventilating because the comedienne gooned Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty last week in Queen’s Park. Even the guys I play hockey with on Thursdays, a bunch of retired school teachers, were pissed. Probably
It can be strange listening to life pass by from the tiny speaker of a digital recorder. Two months ago I was in Los Angeles with dozens of other TV critics attending the winter TCA press tour. AMC had just concluded their session with Bryan Cranston, the star of the series Breaking Bad, and I
TV Feeds My Family has gone a bit overboard on Jimmy Fallon this week, what with his debut and all (Drew Barrymore guests tonight). This is not to overlook all the other cool stuff happening elsewhere on late night these days. Check out this finger lickin’ good spoof on Jimmy Kimmel Live from a week