Twice in one week! Scott Thompson called again at the regular time Wednesday (12:35 p.m. on Hamilton’s CHML) to ask about the Bicycle Thief, a.k.a. Lance Armstrong and his self-serving confession to Oprah Winfrey on OWN. The press in the wake of the interviews doesn’t seem to be breaking Armstrong’s way, and over on social
Was asked to weigh in on the new Canadian Screen Awards Tuesday night on The National. Eli Glasner wisely edited out my crack that I thought the old awards were called the Geminis because only two people watched.The Geminis and the Genies are being combined into one big awards wank. CBC will carry the gala
Bachelor Brad Smith: Rogers renewal on the thorns of a dilemma Let’s give TV Guide Canada credit for this scoop: Rogers/City has ordered a second season of The Bachelor Canada.The news was tweeted Monday. The fine print, however, was a puzzler: According to Rogers’ programming boss Scott Moore, Bachelor Canada won’t be back until 2014.So,
CHML’s Scott Thompson called up for a special Monday edition of the weekly podcast. The topic? Sunday night’s Golden Globes, of course. Scott wanted to know if female comedians can still be sexy. Certainly hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler both work for me.This leads to a big discussion of TV vs. film. Later Scott
I watched enough of the 70th Annual Golden Globes to confirm that I still hate these Hollywood award shows. The Globes at least don’t take themselves as seriously and everybody gets hammered, which is usually good for some laffs. Plus, having sat in that big Beverly Hilton ballroom through countless TCA sessions, it is always
Yannick Bisson has reason to smile Premiere week is over. How did CBC do?The first week of January is a big one for CBC as the public broadcaster tries to take advantage of a more-or-less down week in network television to sneak on its 2013 series premieres. The network headed into the beginning of the
MacFarlane, Belleville and Lemelin get Satisfaction In Canada, if more than one new original series is ordered in the same week, it is a flurry. News about three is an avalanche.So bring on the shovels. CTV took the unusual step of flying an executive down to the TCA press tour is Pasadena to announce the
Arrested: Tambor, Arnett, Walters, Bateman, Shawkat. S. Volland/Netflix The one event I most wish I was at at this winter’s TCA press tour was yesterday’s reunion appearance of the cast of Arrested Development. Executive producer and creator Mitch Hurwitz, along with Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Jason Bateman, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett and Jeffrey