This time of year, everybody who does what I do for a living types up their end of the year highlights. The best & worst of 2011, all tied up with a bow. Mine popped up in several newspapers and web sites after hitting the wire last week for The Canadian Press.I topped my take
Christmas can be a stressful, difficult time of year, but this is unbearably sad. The Associated Press is reporting that Canadian writer/producer Joe Bodolai has died suddenly in Los Angeles. Bodolai was a supervising producer on The Kids in the Hall, the showrunner on Comics! and a writer on Saturday Night Live. He made things like
The Beatles celebrate Merry Gimble, circa 1965. Photo from the vast Beatles archives of Bill Harris, who points out that the crappy tree in the background was probably slapped together in two minutes by roadie Mal Evans “with some stuff he found in a closet at Abbey Road”
It sure doesn’t feel like Christmas. People in Toronto aren’t out shopping for T-shirts–they’re wearing them. It’s such a green Christmas, I don’t know whether to trim the tree or cut the grass.Thank goodness It’s a Wonderful Life is on tonight at 8 p.m. (NBC and CTV). I used to borrow a 16mm print of this
Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know what I was up to in Vancouver earlier this week. I spilled the beans that I was there with a few other reporters to interview the cast of Alcatraz, a new drama coming to Fox and City Jan. 16. Got to spend hours on the prison set at
Winner Sophie Clark with Jeff Probst It looked like Hockey Night in Canada was the most-watched show in Canada last week–until BBM recalculated Sunday’s Survivor take.The original overnight, estimated tally for the 8 to 10 p.m. two-hour finale was 2,063,000 Global viewers, the 10 to 11 p.m. reunion show 2,272,000.Don’t snuff out that tiki torch
Dugay (left) with Exeter legend Jim Allison Tonight, the puck drops on the second of four episodes of the new documentary series 24/7 (10 p.m., HBO and HBO Canada). These episodes feature the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers, the two teams that will meet for the NHL Winter Classic Game Jan. 2 in
VANCOUVER–I was on the set of a new big budget U.S. network drama yesterday–but I can’t say the title.Seems the small group of Canadian journalists who toured the North Shore Studios sound stages Tuesday were the first ones on the scene. Can’t scoop our American brethren you know.I’d love to break out the details but