BUENOS AIRES, Argentina–It takes two to Tango, and sometimes more as I learned while embedded with The Amazing Race Canada. In this season’s third episode which aired Wednesday and repeats Saturday on CTV, teams scrambled from Chile to Buenos Aires. While the weather was cooperatively mild, it was a long, grueling day for the racers on
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT! If you missed last night’s third episode of The Amazing Race Canada, you missed one of the most exciting finishes yet. I was there in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last May, embedded with the cast and crew when the episode was shot. I’ve often wondered how “cooked” these finish line segments can get,
MONTREAL, P.Q.–It’s been quite a few years since I last attended Just for Laughs. Twenty-five to be exact. It was so long ago they were honoring Milton Berle…but that’s a whole other story. For years, Montreal’s annual comedy festival has clashed with the summer TCA press tour. It was an easy choice for me this
UPDATED: See bottom of this post. Quick–is anybody looking? CTV has waited until the dead of summer to sneak Spun Out back onto its schedule. The Toronto-based sitcom, featuring Paul Campbell and Dave Foley, was supposed to return last February in the coveted post-Super Bowl slot. CTV was amping up the launch until, five days before the
If you absolutely have to know how the Amazing Race Canada Media Challenge went Tuesday, check out the video above. My always thinking reality show expert teammate Murtz Jaffer had us followed all day by his camera pal “Ash.” The results aren’t pretty, and please, for the love of God, do not watch all 26-plus minutes.
The Amazing Race Canada sprinted back to television with an overnight, estimated audience of 2.03 million viewers for Wednesday’s Season Three premiere. CTV claims that makes it the most-watched premiere of any series this summer and the No. 1 Canadian premiere of the 2014-15 season. Viewers saw the 12 new teams take off from Quebec
What is there left to say about Bill Cosby? News that, 10 years ago, under testimony in a civil trial, he admitted to drugging women for sex should knock any future endorsements or concert revenues out of that Jello-O tree. Word that Whoopi Goldberg is standing by the man for now seems more about the
I take my hat off to Neil Lumsden. At 62, the CFL Hall of Famer is the oldest competitor in the third season of The Amazing Race Canada, which premieres Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET on CTV. I interviewed Lumsden and his tall teammate, daughter Kristin, before and during the race. I was fortunate