Here is a shocker: despite Donald Trump’s gleeful tweet last Wednesday, it appears that Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t fired by ABC after all. The Disney-owned broadcast network issued a statement Tuesday announcing that, after a suspension designed as a cooling off period, and conversations with Kimmel and others involved, the host on the hot seat was
ABC/DIsney gve host Jimmy Kimmel far too much ammunition for his annual Upfront eulogy before ad buyers this past week in New York. The star-studded gathering, which featured big names from Disney feature films and their streaming and sports ventures, helped distract from what was otherwise a tough year for media giants. That whole, lets
The most frank section the new, two-part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields comes at the very end. That’s when Shields is sitting down to dinner with her husband, director Chris Henchy, and their two children. The teenage girls seem a bit horrified that their mom was just an 11-years-old girl when she played a child
For the second week in a row, Ryan Murphy’s The Watcher was the most-watched series in Canada on Netflix. It edged out Season 3 of Love is Blind and Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, still Top-3 in its fifth week on the chart. Meanwhile, Netflix, besides introducing their ad-supported basic tier (coming in November
When it premiered late last summer, Only Murders in the Building quickly became the most watched comedy ever on the US streaming service Hulu. (It streams in Canada on Disney+’s Star platform.) No surprise then, that a second season of the clever murder-mystery-comedy, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selina Gomez as crime-solving podcasters, was
My friend Alan Pergament of the Buffalo News tweeted that, “You have to love The Beatles as much as John loved Yoko to watch all 8 hours of ‘Get Back’ in one day.” As usual, Alan is not wrong. I love The Beatles and even I had to watch Peter Jackson’s epic repackaging of “Let
There will be many who watch Peter Jackson’s The Beatles Get Back, currently rolling out over three consecutive days on Disney+, who will say six hours is not enough. Having watched the second two-hour installment, as John Lennon says on “Revolution,” count me “in — out.” It begins with such drama. George Harrison has walked
Who wouldn’t want to spend six hours with The Beatles? Even if it is in January of 1969? Watching director Peter Jackson’s documentary “The Beatles Get Back” is a trip, especially if, like me, you’re old enough to have lined up on Yonge Street at 8 am on a weekend morning to climb the stairs