OMG!!! I posted a recap on the final ever episode of Gossip Girl for TheStar.com. Is there no limit to what I will watch on TV for money? No, not around Christmas bill-paying time there isn’t.I was pretty sure Gossip Girl had been cancelled four or five years earlier when the Star editor called and
Ever wanted to make your own Fox network Christmas card? Now you can with this handy little app, send to critics this week via email. You can choose which Fox stars you want to party with om your card. I chose all the Canadians, ‘natch.This gift of festive cheer follows a terrible bit of timing
Nice to see Michael Skupin make it all the way to the final three on Sunday night’s season finale of Survivor. The 51-year-old did a face plant into a fire pit nearly 12 years ago on the second edition of Survivor and had to be airlifted out of the Australian outback. For some reason, he
Calgary rancher John Scott has been wrangling horses for film and TV producers for over 40 years. The Calgary Stampede veteran is currently head wrangler on CBC’s Heartland and was responsible for finding and training the emaciated horses used on CTV’s The Horses of McBride (premiering Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CTV). In the
Many years ago, this comedy team I know, Bullock & Brioux, worked a funeral. A friend’s father had passed away, and the family had gathered, and they needed to laugh. So a set was performed in a crowded living room.Bullock & Brioux never got bigger laughs, or put on a more rewarding show.People, as has
Aidan Quinn in Alberta last March with MacKenzie Porter and friends TURNER VALLEY, Alta–Canadian actors are always getting busted in Hollywoodfor their accents. Nothing causes a director in L.A.to yell, “Cut!” faster than an “oot” or “aboot.” Yet you seldom hear aboot an American actor attempting a Canadian accent. So thanks for coming oot, Aidan
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, so this week on CHML, Scott Thompson asks about the big sell out involving our favourite animated Christmas specials.Specifically, we talk about those Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer ads that are playing this month during other holiday specials. Scott says the campaign features the Aflec health insurance duck
If you cover TV in Canada, sooner or later you’ll run into a Hogan. Saw Gabriel last June on the set of A Christmas Song, one of three Hallmark holiday TV-movies shot in and around Hamilton, Ontario, last June. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on CTV Two and the Hallmark Channel and repeats Dec.