A few weeks ago, I emailed the folks at Adbusters to try and get some information about TV Turnoff Week. The annual effort to get people to turn off their screens for one week a year begins today and extends through April 27, although you’d never have known that at the Adbuster site. About a
Gossip Girl is back! OMFG!! The CW press department is on hype overdrive as the teen soap returns Monday night at 8 p.m. with an all-out PR blitz.The CW has plastered “OMFG” all over their latest Gossip Girl releases. As in, “OMFG! CW Pulls Gossip Girl Streaming!”As you may have already had to explain to
I love these guys, but this sounds like a bad case of empties to me: Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are going to revive their famous Bob and Doug McKenzie SCTV characters in a new animated TV series. Here’s a look at what to expect, from a myspace clip promoting Thomas’ production house, Animax Entertainment.
This clip was on Kimmel last night. That George Bush, what a nut. As Kimmel said, it was a wonder he didn’t try to high five him later.
Don Cherry, Brent Butt’s decision to end Corner Gas and Craig Ferguson’s ascension in late night over Conan O’Brien are the topics of conversation this week with CHML’s Scott ThompsonListen to the exchange here.Ferguson’s show topped O’Brien’s for the first week ever in the U.S. ratings race the week ending April 4, with an average
Would they come roaring back?That was the question network programmers have been nervously asking themselves ever since the writers strike derailed all scripted programming this winter. Network TV had already been in a nosedive over the past year or so, especially after March and April, 2007, when a steep decline in ratings across the board
Sunday’s Night Of Too Many Stars (‘An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education”) had not too many laughs. The opening was shockingly inept, with camera missing cues and performers missing marks. Didn’t anybody get the memo about rehearsals? Ben Stiller’s entrance was all off camera. Rosie O’Donnell in particular did nothing to put out the flames