My guest on this episode is an award-winning Canadian I’ve been hoping to interview since I started podcasting seven years ago – Jayne Eastwood. Back when the fabled Toronto production of Godspell burst on the scene in 1972, it made stars of its incredible cast – including Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Victor Garber,
Let’s be fair. CBC has had, as the Queen once famously said, an annus horribilis. More than any other broadcaster, the pandemic ripped through their winter/spring schedule. Three months of huge Saturday ratings for a Stanley Cup playoff run packed with Canadian teams were completely wiped out. CBC lost countless hours of programming along with
Hey lady and hey fella: have you seen Jayne Eastwood’s hilarious digital short series Hey Lady! yet on CBC Gem? I love the series, which consists of eight five- or six-minute episodes. You can stream all eight in the time it takes to watch one hour-long TV drama — minus the commercials and plus all
The late great Canadian comedian Dave Broadfoot titled his 2002 autobiography, “Old Enough to Say What I Want.” That philosophy is shared — and exploded to bits — in Hey Lady!, an edgy and hilarious new digital series premiering Friday on CBC Gem. Lady, played by Jayne Eastwood, is a 75-year-old senior who tells us
“Hey Lady!” is a phrase you expect to hear brayed from the late Jerry Lewis. Fitting, then, to hear it is now the title of an upcoming comedy series starring the equally hilarious Jayne Eastwood. It was announced Tuesday that Eastwood will be starring in the CBC Gem series Hey Lady! The eight episode digital