Nothing says Canadian Thanksgiving like a documentary on a 200 year old war.I learned a lot about the War of 1812 interviewing Lawrence Hotz. He’s the producer/director behind tonight’s unique Can-Am co-production The War of 1812 (Buffalo PBS affiliate WNED 9 p.m.; check other PBS affiliates in your area).For one thing, the expression “the fog
Murdoch‘s Yannick Bisson: last call? You can tell when a show has the stink of doom on it. Everybody smiles too much. There is a lot of talk about how great the lighting is, or the crew, or the sets–even the craft services grub. I never had a better crew lunch than on my recent
Could it be true? The Simpsons coming to an end?Scott Thompson starts this week’s CHML radio rant off with this question. Told him I had a tour this summer–along with several other reporte4rs on the TCA press tour–of the animation studio north of Los Angeles where the Simpsons are produced. Executive producer Al Jean led
Well, it went up. But not by much.It seems not even Ed Asner can save CBC’s Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays. The comedy drew an overnight, estimated 234,000 viewers across Canada Tuesday as Asner made his first appearance on the series as daddy shrink to star/creator Bob Martin’s shrink.The total was up from the shockingly low
Two U.S. cable gems premiere tonight–one you can see now in Canada, and one being held off Canadian screens until the very end of the month.The first is George Harrison: Living in the Material World. The Beatles biopic is by director Martin Scorsese and Part One premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on HBO and HBO
Jamco presents a brand new season of That’s So Weird! Canada’s only sketchcom aimed at ‘tweens (unless you count Being Erica). The series returns tonight at 6:30 on YTV with its seven member comedy troupe Kayla Lorette, Alana Johnston, James Hartnett, Joey Lucius, Hannah Hogan, Alex Spencer and A.J. Vaage. They star in a whole new
Who doesn’t love Lily Tomlin? She’s one of my favourite phone interviews, always warm and friendly and in the moment, so unlike her famous Laugh-In alter-ego Ernestine. There’s always a gracious good afternoon with Lily, no, “One-ringadingy, two ringadingy…” Caught up with her last week to get the details on her live appearance Friday north of
CTV was quick to declare it had four of the Top 5 new shows after Week One of the 2011-12 season. It would have been hard to imagine them not getting that early jump. The X Factor, bringing with it the return of Simon Cowell, was the consensus pick as the season’s one sure thing,