I watched enough of the 70th Annual Golden Globes to confirm that I still hate these Hollywood award shows. The Globes at least don’t take themselves as seriously and everybody gets hammered, which is usually good for some laffs. Plus, having sat in that big Beverly Hilton ballroom through countless TCA sessions, it is always
MacFarlane, Belleville and Lemelin get Satisfaction In Canada, if more than one new original series is ordered in the same week, it is a flurry. News about three is an avalanche.So bring on the shovels. CTV took the unusual step of flying an executive down to the TCA press tour is Pasadena to announce the
Calgary rancher John Scott has been wrangling horses for film and TV producers for over 40 years. The Calgary Stampede veteran is currently head wrangler on CBC’s Heartland and was responsible for finding and training the emaciated horses used on CTV’s The Horses of McBride (premiering Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CTV). In the
Aidan Quinn in Alberta last March with MacKenzie Porter and friends TURNER VALLEY, Alta–Canadian actors are always getting busted in Hollywoodfor their accents. Nothing causes a director in L.A.to yell, “Cut!” faster than an “oot” or “aboot.” Yet you seldom hear aboot an American actor attempting a Canadian accent. So thanks for coming oot, Aidan
If you cover TV in Canada, sooner or later you’ll run into a Hogan. Saw Gabriel last June on the set of A Christmas Song, one of three Hallmark holiday TV-movies shot in and around Hamilton, Ontario, last June. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on CTV Two and the Hallmark Channel and repeats Dec.
Thursday night at 10 p.m. brings the beginning of the end for Flashpoint. The two-part series finale, “Keep the Peace,” concludes next Thurs., Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. on CTV.The shot-in-Toronto drama has been topping the 1.6 million viewers per week mark again as it heads off air and into syndication. A total of 75
Does CTV’s media site logo promoting their just-announced Amazing Race Canada look familiar to you? It did to comedy writer/producer Gary Pearson (That’s So Weird, 22 Minutes). He posted the above illustration on Facebook which shows the similarities between the new Race logo and CBC’s on-air logo from the late ’50s, early-to-mid ’60s.Not that the
It figured with Global planning to launch Big Brother Canada that CTV would get into the race. The Amazing Race Canada was officially announced Sunday night on a CTV station break by Phil Keoghan. The series will commence in the summer of 2013, with contestants racing, not around the world as in The Amazing Race, but