Every time I pulled into the underground parking garage at the Universal Hilton, this is what I heard. Someday, all press tour sessions will sound like this.For a little more audio insight into the January press tour, here’s my weekly radio report with CHML’s Scott Thompson, recorded this past week in Los Angeles. There’s talk
Today’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson is, as Jimmy Walker would say, “Dyn-O-mite.” That’s because Walker himself figures in a great story or two near the end of the segment, which you can listen to in it’s entirety here.But first, I worked in a preview of my interview earlier today with Air Farce legends
More talk today on CHML with Scott Thompson about how TV is going all to hell. Scott says new surveys are out showing TV viewership is higher than ever, up to an average of eight hours and 18 minutes a day according to Nielsen. Then again, another recent TV survey reports that the people who
A sobering chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson on the radio this week includes musings on the meltdown at Canwest Global (good thing CHML’s a Corus station), fear and panic overall in the television industry and–to change the subject–my new weekly radio spot across the border on Ohio’s WIMA. You can listen in here.Meanwhile, it sounds
Al Jean, the long-time executive producer and showrunner on The Simpsons (with Homer and Matt Groening, left), took conference calls with critics this week. He was proudly promoting the fact that the animated evergreen returns for a 20th season this Sunday at 8 p.m. on Fox and Global. Jean says the five principle voice cast
Paula Abdul‘s latest crack up on American Idol, the down low on next week’s network “upfronts” plus the latest on all those crazy Disney Channel kids are the hot topics this week with CHML’s Scott Thompson. Did those photos hurt Miley Cyrus among her core fans? Do five year olds read Vanity Fair? Listen in
Don Cherry, this week’s PR pissing war between CBC and Global and that over-hyped dud Gossip Girl (“No. 2 in its timeslot among girls 12-24 who wear knee socks and braces and face east”) are among the topics on this week’s radio rant with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen here. You can listen here
This week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson gets into the best reality show on television right now–the U.S. presidential primary elections. Listen to our conversation here.The jumping off point this week is the pivotal speech Barack Obama made in Philadelphia yesterday. Obama addressed race the way John F. Kennedy dealt with his Catholicism in 1960,