My buddy David Bianculli has somehow tricked me into contributing to his excellent full service magazine site TV Worth Watching. Follow this link to the TV Worth Watching’s Fall Season Preview, where two former TCA presidents–Bianculli, a former critic with the New York Daily News, Diane Werts, formerly with New York Newsday–and yours truly weigh
My 18-year-old daughter loves the new vampire drama True Blood, but I’m glad I didn’t watch the first two episodes with her. It’s just not a daddy/daughter experience. The HBO series, from writer/director Alan Ball, premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on The Movie Network and at 8 p.m. on Movie Central.The series has many of
Meant to post this earlier, but The Toronto Star ran my story on Cheech & Chong Saturday. You can read it here.Had a wonderful chat with both gentlemen on the phone this past week. Chong took the call as the duo were rehearsing for Saturday night’s shows at Toronto’s Massey Hall, their favorite venue. Cheech
Frequent readers of this blog (you know who you both are) already know my nerdy little secret. The one show this bleary-eyed TV critic PVR’s every night and watches the next day isn’t Hole In The Wall or America’s Got Cramps or whatever the hell else they’re sticking us with this fall. It is a
Last night, the Toronto International Film Festival opened with a bang and a thunder with Paul Gross’ explosive WWI saga, Passchendaele.This site isn’t normally a film review destination–it’s not called Film Feeds My Family–but, as a guest of premium channel broadcaster Astral Media, what the hell, I’m gonna weigh in.Have to say off the bat
This time of year is a blur, what with all the new shows and film fests and what nots, but a bit of catch up is in order. First: 90210. PVR’d it, thought it was okay, thought the Canadian kids shone (although Dustin Milligan was perhaps playing it a bit too cool), thought the Kelly/Brenda
Does the camera make you more attractive to the ladies on television? That’s just one of the questions Murtz Jaffer sets out to answer tonight on Reality Obsessed (tonight at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on TVTropolis), a new reality show about reality shows.Jaffer–a Toronto Sun reader who used to call up and bust me
The new TV season always means one thing: a steady arrival of TV promotional swag.The 2008-09 season is no exception. Every day, another puffy envelope or box arrives via courier; nine times out of ten it is from Fox.They’re the ones who sent the cool AND practical multi-knife, complete with the critic’s friend, the corkscrew.