Bolted out of Brampton today to grab a little face time on CBC Newsworld. Specifically, to tape a segment for Newsworld’s CBC News Today with David Gray. The topic was Letterman, Leno and O’Brien, all returning to late night, strike or no strike. (I’ll update on that shortly). On my way out of CBC’s cavernous
So, whaddaya think David Letterman and Paul Shaffer have been doing while this writers strike has been going on–just sitting around growing beards? Well, yes, actually. Bushy Dave was snapped earlier this week leaving a Christmas dinner he hosted in New York for suspended staffers. Shaffer showed his white whiskers on the picket line last
Does anyone, outside of 200 TV critics, care whether this January’s gathering of the semi-annual network press tour has been canceled?This thought occurred to me after reading several reports this week that the January Television Critics Association press tour has been ditched due to the on-going writer’s strike. First NBC declared they were going to
Christmas came early in TV Feeds My Family land yesterday when a dude from DHL Express knocked at the door. In his hands was a box from Greenwood Publishing containing ten brand spankin’ new copies of my book, Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths.I may have mentioned the book once or
News that thousands came out to see Oprah Winfrey at a Barack Obama rally over the weekend got me to thinking–is there a Canadian TV figure with that kind of clout?As popular as Rick Mercer is (and over 1.2 million viewers tuned in to the Rick Mercer Report last Tuesday, the CBC comedy’s highest rating
Every Wednesday, Mr. TV Feeds My Family talks TV on the radio with CHML’s Scott Thompson. Last week, the topic was, naturally, all those wall-to-wall Christmas specials that have been airing since, what, Halloween. Specifically, is the new Shrek The Halls (which repeats Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC) the next classic–finally taking the baton
In the post below, TV Feeds My Family awards our first “Swag of the Week” award to a box full of cute chewy Trailer Park Boys gingerbread cookies. Yum. Less edible but no less intriguing was the arrival of a small white envelope a week or two ago containing one tiny brass key. Attached was
Mister TV Feeds My Family gets goofy TV stuff sent to him every week. Some of it is junk, some of it is helpful, none of it ever winds up on eBay. But hands down the coolest promotional thingy to arrive via courier this holiday season came yesterday. The good folks at Alliance Atlantis send