This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted the scoop on my recent trip to Hollywood. I was there earlier this week to work the red carpet premiere of The Kennedys (bowing Sunday April 3 on Reelzchannel in the States and Sunday April 10 at 9 p.m. on History Television). I’m not a red carpet guy, it’s an elbows up
It was odd, as I tell Hamilton’s CHML radio dude Scott Thompson, to be sitting in Yellowknife earlier this week and watching Southern Ontario get hammered with snow. The TV at the Explorer Hotel was hooked up to satellite, and a CHCH channel was among the options. Things looked a hell of a lot more
This week with CHML’s Scott Thompson we discuss Conan O’Brien (Scott feels his new TBS series is getting better and better), this U.S. cable net reality show contest to find new Glee students (to be added during the third season) and the screwy Gemini Awards broadcast. Just to recap, The Tudors, which stars an Irish actor and is
Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know if I was excited about the prospect of an all new, right wing 24-hour news channel in Canada. “I haven’t been this excited,” I tell Scott, “since Kent Brockman won an Emmy.”Still, as Brockman would say, this reporter smells a story. Quebecor expects to launch Sun TV News
Scott Thompson at CHML Talk Radio reports that there are TV trucks all over the streets of Hamilton. That’s because the QEW commuterville offers better tax incentives than Toronto to producers scouting Ontario locations.The sci-fi thriller Blood of Pegasus starring Nazneen Contractor and Rae Dawn Chong just wrapped there, and the sexy Showcase series Lost
Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s CHML wanted to know all about the upfronts on this week’s podcast. We talk about CBS’s bold move switching Survivor out of Thursdays to make room for the Big Bang Theory. (A move that Survivor creator Mark Burnett is not too happy about, by the way.) Scott also wonders why Jim
This week, Scott claims he’s living in Happy Town. That’s the spooky new “Twin Peaks”-like series premiering tonight on ABC and /A. Actually, Happy Town was shot on the other side of Toronto, Port Hope, Ontario. Scott lives in Steel Town, which might also made for a good TV series.We also talk about today’s announcement
Scott Thompson is back at CHML and by the sound of it had a whole lot of catching up to do on the TV front. We touch on the camera-happy Octomom, the other, weepy, Octomom who got booted off Dancing with the Stars this week, the glory days of Hamilton wrestling (yes, the Love Brothers),