Tell us not in mournful numbers: Othello drew a measly 175,000 viewers across Canada Sunday. Talk about a tragedy! The Shakespearean drama, headlined by Carlo Rota from Little Mosque on the Prairie (left), was one of the select summer projects to get a P.R. blitz from the CBC’s outside promotional agency, Media Profile. Me thinks
Occasionally, we here at TV Feeds My Family get sent memos. We don’t ask for them, we don’t look for them, they just arrive, mysteriously, via email. Here is one sure to be of interest to the veteran team of CBC publicists gassed a few years ago by the Corpse: “June 12, 2008 John Bozzo
Sad, shocking news about Tim Russert, the NBC News correspondent and Meet The Press host who died Friday of a heart attack at 58. Russert was a proud native of Buffalo. N.Y., and boasted that he attended the famous 1969 Woodstock concert “in a Buffalo Bills jersey with a case of beer.” Before he went
Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), who whistled his way to that fishin’ hole along with young Opie (Ron Howard) at the beginning of every episode of The Andy Griffith Show, squeaked out a win in the TV Feeds My Family Father’s Day poll. Seems about right to me. That episode with the dead bird and
Promised my cousin Carol Brioux Steed I’d get word up here about Briouxpalooza ’08, the big clan reunion taking place today in Peterborough, Ont. About 350 Brioux friends and relatives are expected to make the trek to the cradle of Briouxdum. There is a street named after the Brioux family in this town, where our
Is CBC really that ticked at Chris Haddock? Tomorrow night at 9 p.m., they’re finally airing the writer/producer’s spin-off feature “The Quality of Life: A Dominic Da Vinci Movie.” A year after it was delivered, they’re burying it on a Saturday in June, TV’s equivalent of the witness protection program.In addition, the Toronto-based publicity firm
Last year at this time, I had my first taste of the Banff World Television Festival. After years of smugly dismissing it as an industry wank, I had an opportunity to see first hand as a panel moderator that it was a viable, first class marketplace and idea centre, a place where TV enthusiasts could
This week on the CHML radio chat with Scott Thompson, we needle CBC for being too stupid to hold on to a theme song. Listen to the discussion here.That CTV was going to steal the Hockey Night in Canada theme was about as obvious and predictable as the Leafs not making the playoffs. But only