I probably shouldn’t be using phrases like “crooks,” “weasels” and “less legitimate than the Gemini Awards” to describe The Golden Globes, but that’s what I’ve been doing this afternoon in a series of syndicated CBC radio interviews. I’m scheduled to be on with Matt Galloway at CBC Toronto’s Here and Now at 4:50.TV critics in
Looking for an xcellent xmas time killer? Check out Betamaxmas, a crazy little YuleTube Internet creation. Go there and you’ll see an old TV screen crammed full of ’70s and ’80s Christmas TV nostalgia.You’ll see clips from a 1987 Julie Andrews holiday special (oops–they called them “Christmas specials” back then) with guests Placidio Domingo and
This is either brilliant or the end of network television as we know it: Nikki Finke and several others are reporting that, in an effort to keep Jay Leno at their network after he hands over The Tonight Show to Conan O’Brien, NBC will offer the talk show host his own Monday to Friday prime
Air Farce: Final Flight signed off as a series Friday night with a season high 913,000 viewers, which will rank it as CBC’s third-highest rated series this fall.Air Farce (featuring Roger Abbott, right, as CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge) finishes with a strong 770,000 per week viewer average (all figures total 2+ audience, Nielsen/BBM overnights).
If you are a fan of B-movies from the ’50s, or ’60s TV shows like My Three Sons, you had to be a fan of Beverly Garland. The blond-haired actress passed away Friday at 82. Read her obit in the L.A. Times here. Garland was one of those throaty, no-nonsense women who kicked ass in
It was very nice of John Doyle at the Globe and Mail to include mention of my book in the Globe’s Gift Guide 2008 on the weekend. You can read Doyle’s full article here.John, of course, had great success with his own book, A Great Feast of Light, all about television and growing up in
A week of high comedy in Ottawa continues to boost the fortunes of the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes–just as a cratering Canadian economy has put an extra roar in Dragon’s Den. Whoa, Stephen Harper–who knew you’d go to such lengths to boost the CBC!Mercer pulled 1,150,000 on Tuesday, the series’
Today’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson is, as Jimmy Walker would say, “Dyn-O-mite.” That’s because Walker himself figures in a great story or two near the end of the segment, which you can listen to in it’s entirety here.But first, I worked in a preview of my interview earlier today with Air Farce legends