Have you seen this spacey little ad? It’s for Clearblue, a digital home pregnancy test which shows a stream of liquid hitting the stick as the narrator declares it “the most advanced piece of technology you will ever pee on.”Or, at least, that’s what it did say. Caught this ad tonight on a Buffalo station
Maybe I jumped the gun with that last post. Tonight’s was the weirdest Coach’s Corner ever. Grapes seemed a little touchier than usual, shoving MacLean’s hand over at one point to show him who’s boss of the desk, still peeved about something Kelly Hrudey had said the game before.The weird part came at the end
Despite the garage-sale-giddy jackets and collars, I’ve always been a big Don Cherry fan. Grapes saves his most outlandish outfits for playoff time and this April is no exception. To paraphrase the old Milton Berle line, he’s sold more HD sets with his suits than anyone else on television. When Coach’s Corner came on Saturday
First Air Farce Live, now Corner Gas is calling it quits. Creator, producer, writer and star Brent Butt announced today that he is pulling the plug on Canada’s top-rated comedy at the end of next season, the series’s sixth. Work on the final 19 episodes will commence May 15 in Rouleau (not fictional Dog River),
Here’s the best local news clip ever, as stumbled upon over at screenwriter Jim Henshaw‘s enlightening blog The Legion Of Decency: That was Global News’ Rob Leth who performed that perfect 360 cartwheel in Riverdale Park, Toronto, about a month ago. A spokesperson at Global says the clip never aired, but it somehow got posted
CBC hopes to build on the modest but steady programming gains this year with two new shows set to bow in January of 2009.The Session stars Alberta-native Erin Karpluk (Godiva’s, Bionic Woman) as a woman who, with the help of her magical therapist (Michael Riley from This Is Wonderland), goes back in time to relive
That scamarama in Ottawa this week aimed at stealing more cable fees out of your pocket took up all of today’s discussion with CHML‘s Hamilton Talk Radio host Scott Thompson. You can listen to the rant here.Bottom line, Rogers and other Canadian cable and satellite providers have run out of bright shiny objects to flash
For those of you who are regular visitors to this blog, you are likely already acquainted with Sherri Wood. The former Toronto Sun club and concert supernova passed away last month after a courageous battle with brain cancer. Today would have been her 29th birthday.To celebrate her memory and spirit, as well as nudge along