One of the great privileges in being asked to work on Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants was getting to spend a few hours with Dave Broadfoot. As Rich Mercer wrote on the back jacket of Broadfoot’s 2002 autobiography, Old Enough to Say What I Want,”If the comedy business
Greetings, Farce fans! Today, Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants hits bookstores everywhere. The 288-page hardcover from Wiley is a wonderful scrapbook of stories and photos from Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott about Canada’s longest-running comedy troupe. I was honoured to be asked to help with the book and
Among the many things I liked about The Walking Dead when it premiered last year: it was a six episode season.I’m down with that U.K. series length, I knew it was something I could possibly catch beginning to end.Which I did, with my 18-year-old son, who was nuts for this series.The Walking Dead returns tonight
Is it too early to report winners and losers from the fall TV season? Not really. Five U.S. network shows have already been canceled: in order, they are NBC’s The Playboy Club, Hank Azaria’s NBC comedy Free Agents (the one I had first in the pool), the dumb CW reality show H8R, CBS’s How to be a Gentleman
Isn’t it curious how you can say all kinds of S#*! on television that you still can’t say in print?I’ve been wanting for several weeks now to comment on how raunchy the new sitcoms were this season. The pilot for 2 Broke Girls, for example, showed a customer in a restaurant snapping his fingers at
Craig Ferguson’s suggestion to critics a few years ago that they not even attempt to review late night rival Jimmy Fallon’s NBC show until it was up and running for three months should probably apply to morning shows. Launching a daily anything is a monster job in television, requiring production, planning, rehearsals and, above all,
Seems every fall is Cherry picking time. Will CBC fire Grapes? That is CHML Talk Radio host Scott Thompson’s question as we begin this week’s radio podcast. You can listen in here.Seems a few former NHL enforcers are mad at Don for calling them “pukes.” Everybody take a deep breath. Cherry isn’t going anywhere. Who
Saw this posted a few places on Facebook yesterday and its worth a look here if you haven’t witnessed it yet. It’s a clip from The Lang & O’Leary Exchange on CBC News Network, but it is the exchange between co-host Kevin O’Leary and guest Chris Hedges that is so fascinating. O’Leary’s attempts to Don