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Mark Burnett was in Toronto this week to do a little Bible thumping. The reality TV czar and his actress wife, Roma Downey, blitzed the city to promote their miniseries The Bible, which will premiere March 3 on History. The 10-hour, five-part miniseries was shot in southern Morocco last summer at a cost of $20

If, like me, you’re a fan of Ice Pilots NWT and those glorious old DC-3’s and -4s featured on that series, you’ll want to watch Air Aces. The series premiered a few weeks ago on the History specialty network in Canada and also airs Stateside on the Military Channel. New episodes air Monday nights at

L/Cpl P.A. “Ross” Brioux (right) My dad, Ross Brioux, is a World War II veteran. A member of the Canadian Provost Corps, he served in France and Germany in 1944-45.Whenever I ask about his war stories, I get tales of hockey. Dad, now 97, actually enlisted with the Provost Corps because he heard they had

Shaw SVP’s Williams and Robertson Shaw Media has a lot of cheek holding their 2012-13 upfront in the new Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto. Especially after the way they shoved Trump’s The Apprentice into exile this past season, airing it on Saturdays six nights after NBC. I swear, somewhere down the hall, I

LAS VEGAS–What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas–unless you’re blogging about Las Vegas.I’m out here in Sin City for the first time in ages. They tell me Bugsy is gone. So is Sammy, Frank and Dean. Now the big names up on the giant neon billboards on all these fancy new theme park hotels around