Kudos to Jimmy Kimmel, who, in his fourth turn as Oscar host, brought the show in on time and — just before it ended — managed to roast one of his harshest critics. Kimmel was smooth and confident throughout, keeping things fun as well as moving. Suggesting the show was running short towards the end,
If you’ve been waiting until the Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selina Gomez comedy Whodunnit Only Murders in The Building came to an old-fashioned broadcast network, well, congratulations. Starting tonight, the Hulu/Disney+ streaming series premieres from the beginning on ABC and CTV. This is a shrewd bit of re-purposing by networks still reeling from a lack
Boston-based cameraman, Bruins fan and eagle-eyed TV history sleuth Kevin Vahey posted a video on Twitter that dovetails nicely with the podcast I have running this week. The YouTube video shows several commercials and “brought-to-you-by” moments from The Flintstones (1960-’66). The modern stone age family was brought to us by Winston cigarettes, as Flintstones‘ producer
Game Show fans are probably already watching the Jeopardy! Masters tournament, which started Monday on ABC. It features Halifax-native Mattea Roach among the six elite players. She won 23 consecutive games last year — the fifth longest streak in the history of the series. For the past seven decades, up until recently, women could win
One of my earliest memories is the time I accompanied my mother, Margaret Brioux, to the then-brand new CFTO Toronto studio in Agincourt for a taping of the Canadian version of the panel show To Tell the Truth. Mom had enough Lucy Ricardo in her to want to be on game shows. The goal on
Len Goodman, for many years the head judge on Dancing with the Stars, has gone to the big ballroom in the sky. He passed away Sunday, April 23rd, just a few days shy of his 79th birthday. As a young man, the elegant Goodman was an apprentice welder for a famous British shipbuilding company. In
An overnight, estimated audience of 3,413,000 watched CTV’s broadcast of the 95th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night. The Hollywood movie awards gala, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, drew an additional 1,153,000 to the red (or champagne) carpet pre-show on the Canadian broadcaster. In the US, Fast National Live+Same Day data suggests 18.7 million viewers watched the
North America was certainly ready for Laverne & Shirley when the series premiered in 1976. It arrived as the ABC network soared from perennial also-ran status become the No. 1 US network for several years. Powering them there were the breezy comedies created by Garry Marshall, including Happy Days, the series that introduced the characters