Bisson (left), Brioux (middle) and some guy with lines Yes, the long wait is over. Tonight’s the night I make my big debut on Murdoch Mysteries.It’s a buddy picture, really, me and Yannick Bisson, way up in Dawson City in the Yukon, panning for blogger gold.Bisson’s hardly in it, really. Sure, they give him lines,
This week on CHML, Scott Thompson wants to know all about dear, departed Dickie Dawson, who passed away Saturday at 79. I confess I used to race home from school in the ’70s just to see Dawson and his pals try to recover from their six martini lunches on Match Game. Always entertaining. It’s not
Mainse poses with a statue of Jesus washing one ofthe disciples’ feet in the foyer of his Crossroads HQ Although we here at TV Feeds My Family tend to deify people like Leslie Moonves or Mark Burnett, television is by in large a Godless business. Indeed, spend a few minutes on E! or any of
Dawson hosted Family Feud from 1976-’85 and later in ’94-’95 “His mind worked like a steel trap, but he wasn’t the happiest man in the world.” That was Betty White’s assessment of Richard Dawson, who died Saturday at 79. Popular with audiences and contestants for his almost uncanny ability to match words, the Family Feud
Arrow‘s Stephen Amell will help CTV pull up its socks These Canadian network upfronts are micro-managed to within an inch of their lives. Studio publicists sit on stacks of screeners as well as talent releases for fear a Canadian journalist might be prepared for an interview, or, worse, stumble on any actual news.Despite these stubbornly
Shaw SVP’s Williams and Robertson Shaw Media has a lot of cheek holding their 2012-13 upfront in the new Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto. Especially after the way they shoved Trump’s The Apprentice into exile this past season, airing it on Saturdays six nights after NBC. I swear, somewhere down the hall, I
Max Greenfield: Schmidt was in the house It’s “Upfront” Week in Canada, an odd mix of American razzmatazz and Canadian reserve. Rogers’ kicks off a week of these things with their 2012-13 upfront today at Massey Hall in Toronto.In past years, the Canadian nets seemed to be trying to out do each other with pricey venues
Set phasers for stunning! The new sci-fi drama Continuum premiered to an overnight, estimated 900,000 Sunday night on Showcase. The specialty series, about a cop from the future on the hunt for a gang of terrorists, was the most watched TV show in Canada Sunday at 9, beating a movie on CTV, and topping both