Voight and Schreiber:Donovan has daddy issues I just dunno about this guy Ray Donovan. His series premiered Sunday night at 10 p.m. on Showtime and in Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central. Broadway and film star Liev Schreiber stars as the ultimate Los Angeles fixer, a strong, silent type who does the dirty work for
School’s out for summer, as Alice Cooper used to say. So what’s on TV?Tons ‘o stuff. The new Showtime original Ray Donovan, starring Liev Schreiber as a slick LA fixer-to-the-stars, begins Sunday, for example. Dexter returns for a final run. In August, so does Breaking Bad. The Listener, True Blood, Saving Hope and Rookie Blue
From Thursdays Conan: Paula Deen’s book isn’t even out yet and it’s already number one on Amazon. And at the bottom of the sales page it says, “Customers who like this book may also like Alabama in the 1950s.”
This week, CHML`s Scott Thompson kicked things off with thoughts on James Gandolfini. The Sopranos‘ star died suddenly last week in Rome at 51. His funeral was Thursday, and creator David Chase, Edie Falco, Michael Imperiolli and many other cast mates attended the service.We speculate if a Sopranos‘ prequel might, or should, ever emerge. Chase
The overnight, estimated tally for Monday’s Sixth and final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs was 3,401,000 viewers. The Chicago Blackhawks last minute victory over the Boston Bruins pulled the highest playoff total since the Leafs went out in the first round. Audience levels rose as the series heated up. Saturday’s 5th game drew 2,911,000,
Not on Bitten: the late, great Billy Van Had a tour Tuesday of the set of Bitten, launching early 2014 on Space. The genre series stars Laura Vandervoort (Ted, Smallville) as that rarest of species, a female werewolf. Also sinking their fangs into roles are Greyston Holt (Durham County) and Greg Bryk (Regenesis, XIII: The
Last week when I visited the set of Satisfaction, I thought Ryan Belleville had some interesting things to say about the state of TV comedy in Canada. Satisfaction premieres Monday night at 8 p.m. on CTV.The Calgary native plays a dude who shares a big city apartment with a frisky couple (played by fellow Canadians
I wanted to blog about Sunday night’s sixth season finale of Mad Men–but then I read Tim Goodman’s spot-on deconstruction. Goodman says it all and says it well. Read it here at The Hollywood Reporter.I agree with Goodman that the jam-packed finale redeemed an up and down season. It was as if creator Matthew Weiner,