Today, December 2, 2008, is the one year anniversary of TV Feeds My Family. What started as a shameless attempt to flog my book Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths remains, well, a shameless attempt to flog my book (available here just in time for the holidays, shoppers. Free shipping!)What I
Remember the late ’70s, early ’80s California highway patrol series CHiPs? Spent the day hanging out with TV’s “Ponch,” a.k.a. Erik Estrada. The actor was flown up to Toronto to guest on the new series Switch, premiering next spring on TVTropolis.Yours truly was invited to be one of three “TV experts” joining Estrada in an
Merry Christmas, fired CTV employees. Your lump of coal arrived yesterday.It will be hard for CTV news anchor Tim Weber, entertainment reporter Jacintha Wesselingh (right) and Kate Wheeler of CTV NewsNet to feel the Christmas spirit this week. They are among the casualties in yesterday’s CTV cuts.With the downturn in the economy, massive layoffs have
Today is U.S. Thanksgiving, the unofficial kick off to wall-to-wall Christmas specials season. All anybody wants to know is, when does The Grinch air? Or Charlie Brown? Or Rudolph? If you are looking for a handy guide to all the holiday specials on TV this season, check out today’s Toronto Star. They asked me to
More talk today on CHML with Scott Thompson about how TV is going all to hell. Scott says new surveys are out showing TV viewership is higher than ever, up to an average of eight hours and 18 minutes a day according to Nielsen. Then again, another recent TV survey reports that the people who
For decades, if you wrote a letter to Starweek magazine, asking for an address to write to a star, or to get information on your favorite TV show, the guy who answered your letter was Eirik Knutzen. So it was with sadness to read in the TCA newsletter sent to critics today that Knutzen passed
In the biggest response yet to a TVFMF Poll, Rex Murphy was chosen as the CBC personality most in need of a Don Cherry makeover. The results speak for themselves; Murphy looks frighteningly at home in zebra print. With apologies to the folks at the Rick Mercer Report, where this madness all began. Runners up
What supper hour show scored over one million viewers twice last week? That would be CBC’s Jeopardy!, Alex, which drew 1,076,000 Wednesday and another 1,018,000 Friday for the conclusion of its Teen Tournament.That was won by 16-year-old San Diego high school student Anurag Kashyap, who, beat out 14 other smartypants contestants. This was no fluke