CBC certainly let you know the 2025 Juno Awards were coming. There was host Michael Bublé, in countless promotion spots for well over a month, getting more air time than a Poilievre attack ad chiding Mark Carney for sneaking up on him in the polls. Sneaky! It had to help that the show, broadcast live
Last Sunday’s three-and-a-half hour coverage of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s resounding Liberal Party leadership win was also a victory for the CBC. The late afternoon broadcast drew close to a million overnight, estimated viewers combined on CBC and CBC News Network. The overnight totals break down this way: CBC News Network 549,000; CBC Total 437,000.
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC’s Son of a Critch. This conversation took place last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., in McDowell’s trailer which was parked outside the Bella Vista banquet hall. It had been an exciting
Chances are that Donald J. Trump, the now and possible future President of the United States, has never heard of the CBC. He probably thinks the first two letters refer to Cheese Burgers. But the ‘very stable genius’ may have handed our embattled national broadcaster a lifeline. Canadians are in a patriot fervor these days,
Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series — and it’s a period piece! The series is called Small Achievable Goals and it is about two women in midlife encountering all of the joys of menopause. Hot flashes, mood swings, homicidal trendencies and more. Now, you
Speaking of Talking to Americans: if ever we needed some frank talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. Not that he addresses the news of the past weekend. I caught up with the CBC Hall of Famer last summer in St. John’s on the set of Son of a Critch. The native son plays Mark
Every time I interview Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, he seems a half-foot taller than the last time I spoke with him. Yet his ego never grows as I found out last summer in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Ainsworth, of course, plays young Mark Critch, circa 1990, on the CBC sitcom. We were outdoors on location on a residential
The second season of the slick procedural crime series Allegiance begins January 15 on CBC and CBC Gem. The shot-in-Surrey, B.C., drama stars Supinder Wraich (Sort Of), Enrico Colantoni (also great of late in English Teacher) and Samer Salem (The Expanse). I spoke with all three in Toronto at the CBC Winter Media Launch in