This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if I’m enjoying the fall TV season so far. To be honest, not so much. I can’t remember a fall season where I did not care if I never saw a second episode of any new network series.We’ve already had the first casualty of the fall: Made in Jersey,
Two of the better new shows in a mediocre season launch tonight: Arrow and Nashville, along with one of the worst new shows, Chicago Fire. The CW, which is behind shot-in-Vancouver Arrow, tends to launch all their new shows a little later since it apparently doesn’t matter if anybody watchers. Arrow delivers as a well made
President Obama in happier times with Dave on Sept. 18. John Paul Filo/CBS Years ago it was said that if you lost Walter Cronkite, you lost the White House.The “most trusted” CBS news anchor certainly played a part in ending Lyndon Johnson’s political career. Even more lethal, it could be argued, was being the steady butt
I was in Sauble Beach that summer of ’88, looking up at a TV set with several friends watching Ben Johnson smash the 100-meter mark at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.Everybody in the room was standing and cheering after the race. The idea that Canada would win any gold medal at a
Annette Funicello was one of the biggest stars on television back in the mid-’50s. As the main attraction on The Mickey Mouse Club, the original Mouseketeer was much more than just the Justin Beiber of her day, a child star kids wanted to know, be like, grow up and marry. Parents adored her too.Funicello went on
Award-winning journalist interviewing former Naked News newscaster On Thursday, the Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel announced they are producing an eight-part documentary series on the notorious little enterprise Naked News. Production on Naked News Uncovered, from Toronto’s AllScreen Entertainment, is set to begin later this month and the series will air next summer.For those who may
Both still smiling but only one will be after checking his Twitter account After last night’s first Presidential Debates, Barack Obama may be the first U.S. president tweeted out of office.Forget all those instant polls flashed on CNN and CBS showing Obama took a whuppin’ from Mitt Romney Wednesday night. The instant abandon ship on
Democratic ticket Biden-Obama You may not have heard about this, but they’re having an election in November in the United States.The first of four live televised Presidential debates begins tonight at 9 p.m. This one will be held at the University of Denver in Colorado. The square off on domestic issues between president Barack Obama