This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if I’m enjoying the fall TV season so far. To be honest, not so much. I can’t remember a fall season where I did not care if I never saw a second episode of any new network series.We’ve already had the first casualty of the fall: Made in Jersey,
This week on CHML, Scott Thompson wanted to know what the deal was with Christine Bentley’s departure last Friday on Canada’s most-watched local newscast, CTV News at Six.Bentley quietly announced she was leaving last week. The final newscast found her surrounded with colleagues old and new. She expressed a desire to allow room to give
Humble, Not-so-Humble, and Fred This time of year, I become radio-active. Beyond my usual weekly radio chats with Scott Thompson at CHML (and, occasionally, Mike Miller of Lima, Ohio’s WIMA), other hosts at other stations come calling for an expert take on the new TV season.But John Doyle is usually too busy so I end
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know what the heck I was doing in Halifax last week. I explain that I was there on the set of the CBC teacher comedy Mr. D. Scott wanted to know if Gerry Dee’s hair was really that blond. This is why Scott gets the medium sized bucks.We
After a few weeks off, CHML’s Scott Thompson had plenty of questions. First he wanted to know all about my recent trip to Dieppe. I was in France for the memorial celebrations surrounding the 70th anniversary of the WWII invasion (see previous postings). David O’Keefe, the Montreal historian who spent 15 years digging into declassified,
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if Sarah Palin really was at the NBC TCA party Tuesday night. You Betcha, Scott. The former Alaskan governor was there in all her high heeled glory.And a fine looking woman she is too. She’d make a fine real estate agent.NBC did not post any photos of Palin on
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson seemed rattled by the possibility that I had posted a nude picture of Fabio on TVFMF. He’s referring to this shot (below) of some of the photogenic contestants from Big Brother, back for a 14th season on CBS and Global. I’m pretty sure the good folks at CBS are not
CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to talk about the passing of two TV legends: Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine. Thompson didn’t realize Borgnine was still working as a voice actor on SpongeBob SquarePants. The 95-year-old was teamed there with his old McHale’s Navy colleague, Tim Conway, fifty years after the black and white Navy sitcom. There’s