CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to know why the holy trinity of animated Christmas specials–Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (1964), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)–continue to draw big ratings 45 years after they premiered. Last week’s re-broadcast of Rudolph on CBS (it originally aired on NBC) drew an overnight audience
Maybe its just me, but this looks awesome. That’s B.C.-native Will Sasso (Mad-TV) as Curly Howard. Does he nail it? Sointenly! Fellow Canucklehead Chris Diamantopoulos, from Toronto, plays Moe. Diamantopoulos seems to be specializing in playing famous people; he previously played Robin Williams in the TV-movie about Mork & Mindy and played Frank Sinatra in
The award for the most phallic network TV promotional item of all time goes to the publicity team over at Global. They win for the giant metal dildo they sent critics this week to promote Bomb Girls (premiering Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. ET).Bomb Girls is not about Global senior VP Barb Williams’ picks for
Later today at 6:30 p.m., That’s So Weird airs its first ever Christmas episode. The premise has Kayla Lorette (right, with James Hartnett) charged with finding a Santa for the Christmas special and settling on Jake, a grisly old timer she pulls straight out of the old folks home. Ho-ho-no!The whole Santa deal is just
Hillbilly Handfishin’, Storage Wars–what next? A whole lotta stupid is comin’ atcha as networks stoop as low as they can go in their endless search for cheap and unchallenging content. Notice went out the other day about a new show from schlock-meisters Animal Planet called American Stuffers (premiering Jan. 5). It’s about a family of Arkansas taxidermists
A Russell Peters Christmas drew 2,071,000 viewers to CTV Thursday night, an early Christmas present for the private broadcaster.The special was largely panned by critics as well as the 18- and 21-year-olds in my home, who both said they’d rather see one of his stand-up specials.The critical response was so tepid even CTV had trouble
Are some shows just too smart or challenging for the mass audiences that sustain broadcast TV? Take Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, as I do in a feature up on the wire for The Canadian Press this week. You can read the full story here.Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays airs its final episode of the season Tuesday