On this week’s podcast, CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to know about my recent trip to Los Angeles to cover the Warner Bros. International TV press tour. The big lesson for me was how excited some members of the foreign press were about shows that are off my radar here, such as Supernatural–which is apparently quite
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks about my trip earlier this week to Halifax to attend a taping of 22 Minutes. The series is nearing the end of its 17th season on CBC, with the last two episodes airing the next two Tuesday night’s at 8:30. The numbers were up around 750,000 viewers this week
This week’s CHML podcast finds me still spitting blood over Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The graphic comic book adventure (airing Fridays in Canada on TMN/Movie Central and Mondays on Starz in the U.S.) stars John Hannah and Lucy Lawless (right) and buckets and buckets of blood. CHML’s Scott Thompson seems amused at the cheeky salute
CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to de-brief now that another press tour is in the books. Topics include, or course, those two TCA titans, Conan and Cowell. Scott also wants to know if Pee-wee’s Playhouse might make a TV comeback now that a revival of Paul Reuben’s play is packing them in in LA. If Scott
Here it is, Press Tour 2010, the radio version. I give CHML’s Scott Thompson the scoop on all this NBC nonsense straight off the floor of Pasadena’s Langham Hotel. Will Conan O’Brien finish the week as host of The Tonight Show? Will he host the show again in the Year 3000? You can listen in
Did one of those end of the year chit chats with Scott Thompson over at Hamilton’s CHML. Topics include the biggest TV flop of the year, the biggest TV success story and other TV headlines from 2009, including Letterman’s on-air confession, the impact of PPMs in Canada and that phony “Save Local TV” fiasco. There
Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know about this week’s Golden Globes nominations. I explain once again that the whole thing is phony and fixed. The phrase “bags of loot on doorsteps” is used in the same sentence as “Hollywood Foreign Press.” I do manage some enthusiasm for Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele getting nominations
This week’s CHML podcast runs the gamut from Tiger tales to Glee. Scott Thompson thinks the press should stop hounding Tiger Woods to come clean. I’m thinkin’ that’s never going to happen. You can listen in here.The Glee talk surrounds Wednesday night’s fall season finale. If you haven’t screened it yet, RUN AND HIDE: SPOILER