By now, you’ve seen eleventy-billion million previews for Smash. If you were watching an award shows lately, or the Super Bowl, chances are you saw and heard Katharine McPhee howling her lungs out followed by Debra Messing looking like she’s about to be named as CTV News anchor.I like Smash–it remains the best pilot I
Alcatraz has been on the air for a few weeks now, so it is about bloody time I posted this video. It was shot before Christmas while I was on the west coast visiting the set of the J.J. Abrams drama. The series is produced in Vancouver at the same North Shore studios where The X
The cast of NCIS takes the cake. Photo: Michael Yarish/CBS With American Idol not the Death Star it once was, NCIS has a real shot at finishing the season as the most-watched show on U.S. network television. That’s pretty astounding considering NCIS is in its ninth season. A scripted series hasn’t finished a season as
After some meaningless banter about a Kardashian, CHML’s Scott Thompson starts in about those Super Bowl ads. We talk about Matthew Broderick’s Ferris Bueller 26-years-later spot, and I suggest this is the way to do all sequels from now on. Just boil the whole idea down to two-and-a-half minutes. Eliminates 90 minutes of really bad
The above teaser for this year’s Super Bowl XLVI Volkswagen ad had reached over 11 million YouTube views at the time of this posting. It’s easy to see why. It’s one of those brilliantly simple, “you gotta see this,” ideas that can help but go viral.Last Super Bowl, Volkswagen scored a touchdown with their Darth
Two of the German stars of shot-in-Toronto Transporter Way back last September, I visited the set of Transporter, a new international TV series shot in Toronto. It’s based on the hit feature films starring Jason Statham as a driver for hire. The Canadian-French co-production was supposed to be a bonanza for the local TV industry,
Team Dave: Philbin, Letterman, Murray. John P Filo/CBS Tonight marks 30 years since David Letterman woke up late night. Late Night with David Letterman premiered on NBC on Feb. 1, 1982; The Late Show with David Letterman began on CBS in August of 1993. Time flies.Is he still The Man? He will be tonight, ratings-wise,
If you haven’t seen it already on YouTube, the full Matthew Broderick “Ferris Bueller” Super Bowl ad that was teased earlier is posted above. It is for a car company, and it is a nice nod to the John Hughes original. Be sure to stick around to the very end.The two-and-a-half-minute spot had already been