The other day I got a message from a writer at The Canadian Press asking my thoughts about the re-casting of one of the leads on Hudson & Rex. Seems fans are doggone upset. This is the Canadian series about a cop and his canine. If you are regular viewer of this Citytv series, you
To repair or not to repair, that is the TV question Last Wednesday, my wife woke me with four words nobody wants to hear. “The television doesn’t work.” I’ve heard this before. My 65” Samsung, with its various boxes attached, can be a little finicky, particularly for a senior technophobe like my wife. But this
Have you ever made a bucket list of places around the world you’d like to visit? Eugene Levy did for Season Three of The Reluctant Traveler, streaming now on AppleTV+. This season finds him flying to Mexico, India, Vienna, Ireland, Vancouver, Louisianna, Korea and even London. His tour guide in The UK was none other than
One of the offshoots of covering television in Canada for so many years is that when big news breaks, I often get asked to weigh in on radio and TV coverage. This was certainly the case this past week as the Jimmy Kimmel saga went, in a matter of days, from shock to cause celeb
Full disclosure: I like Jimmy Kimmel. I have ever since he was co-hosting The Man Show with Adam Curolla. The two of them came to Toronto back when I was starting out at The Toronto Sun and shenanigans ensued. It has been a pleasure watching him grow in stature since those dumb early days and
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
Here’s my reaction Monday on CTV News Network to the news that Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC Tuesday night, This happened so fast I didn’t even have time to cancel my Disney+ subscription! A lot of other people did, however, including Howard Stern. Many others turned up the heat, including John Oliver and
At the tender age of 22, Dini Petty broke ground with Toronto radio station CKEY as Canada’s first female traffic reporter to fly solo in a helicopter. After 5,000 hours in the air she landed her pink chopper and went on to a stellar career as a news anchor at Citytv and as a talk