Gethin Anthony (above right) gets more face time in season two of Thrones Last season, Game of Thrones introduced fantasy fans to a world of Kings and Queens, sex and violence, barbarians, direwolves, black magic, palace intrigue and bloody wars. It’s a treacherous, medieval place to inhabit, yet nothing but fun for the actors involved
In the wake of recently announced cutbacks, TV Feeds My Family has obtained the top secret, totally revised CBC schedule. Here’s what viewers will have to look forward to next fall once the $115 million chop to the annual parliamentary appropriation starts impacting the schedule. STEVEN OR CHRIS–LifestyleHard times at the network force the daytime
Trudeau: Age, 40, H, 6-foot-2, W, 180 LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUMMMBLE!! Tonight, Sun News has the show everybody wants to see–Justin Trudeau getting his beak bent by Patrick Brazeau.I once asked Justin’s younger brother Sasha Trudeau if he’d ever get into politics. He said his dad advised against it, telling him, “it’s a dirty
I used to goof on CBC all the time when I was the TV columnist at the Toronto Sun. Back then it wasn’t even mandatory.Once I wrote an obit that began, “BROADCASTING CORPORATION, CANADIAN; died in its sleep last night…”Good times.The fellow in charge of CBC programming back then, Slawko Klymkiw, was a very patient
Thanks to an invite from the folks at Discovery Canada, I caught the Mythbusters “Behind the Myths Tour” as it stopped in Toronto Thursday night. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were like rock stars at the Sony Centre, playing two shows with the evening performance packed to the rafters.A full house of adoring fans–many in
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know what I was up to this week in Vancouver. Told him I was invited by Showcase to the set of their new sci-fi cop drama Continuum, which premieres May 27.Continuum stars spunky Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) as a kick-ass cop from the year 2077 who gets zapped
Navratilova was a net job on DWTS Again, no new Big Bang Theory, allowing other shows to reach the top of the weekly Canadian TV ratings. But Survivor, NCIS, CSI and The Amazing Race all in the Top-5? Strong showings from American Idol and Dancing with the Stars? What is this, 2006? Sifting through all the
News that The L.A. Complex has been picked up for an additional 13 episodes did not come as a total surprise today–even though the series was not exactly a ratings smash.The drama, about young Canadian wannabes struggling to make it in Hollywood, premiered Jan. 10. It drew 351,000 viewers on CTV in overnight estimates. An