The pursuit of the “wow” factor intensified on Tuesday’s second episode of Canada’s Got Talent. First of all, the show moves faster than Connor McDavid through a defense pairing. Tuesday’s opening scenes were a blur of clips showing talented Canadians charging the OLC Stage at the Fallsview Casino, all in pursuit of the $150,000 grand
Howie Mandel wasted no time in throwing down the big challenge for Season 2 of Canada’s Got Talent: give us, he said, “that wow moment.” He got it early on during Tuesday’s Citytv season premiere. Four strapping lads who call themselves GBA, brought big time “wow” for Mandel and fellow judges Lilly Singh, Trish Stratus and
Listen up to Kardinal Offishall, the Toronto-born rapper and music producer now encouraging a new generation on Canada’s Got Talent. That series, which shoots at the Fallsview Casino OLG Stage in Niagara Falls, Ont., starts a second season Tuesday on Citytv. On this week’s podcast, Offishall talks about his own experiences as a talent show
I recently was invited to one of the tapings for Season Two of Canada’s Got Talent (returning Tuesday, March 21 on Citytv). When I took my seat inside the large auditorium at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ont., Howie Mandel was just making his way to the judges desk. A row or two over, a
I don’t think I ever met anyone who had a bad word to say about David Onley. The Citytv television journalist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario died January 15 in Toronto. He was 72. Onley was stricken with Polio at the age of three, resulting in partial paralysis. Starting his on-camera career in 1984
Despite an opening round loss to Chechia and some negative Hockey Canada headlines, the World Junior Hockey Championships is still a big draw on TSN. A look at the overnight ratings from December 31 shows that an average minute audience of 1,752,000 (ages 2+) watched the WJC Preliminary game between Canada and Sweden on New
Did you know that there are three German Shepherds who take turns playing Rex on Hudson & Rex — and that one is called in for the kissing scenes? The series returns for a fifth season this Sunday, September 25, on Citytv. You can hear the Hudson half of the series, John Reardon, now as
For the past four seasons, Peter Mitchell has been doing Ryan Murphy-level duty. He’s the showrunner for the two primetime scripted Canadian series with by far the largest schedules: Murdoch Mysteries and Hudson & Rex. Murdoch, CBC’s historical whodunnit which returns for a 16th season next Monday, September 12, is currently in production in and