What is the best Canadian TV comedy of all time? Is it SCTV? The Kids in the Hall? Corner Gas? The Trouble with Tracy? OK, that last one was an inside joke for Canadian TV nerds. But I would sincerely like to add one more show to the all-time Canadian comedy list –The Littlest Hobo.
LONDON — Office work is over for John Krasinski. He’s now a kick-ass action star. The Boston native, who played it mild-mannered for eight seasons on The Office, is all muscle as a CIA hero in the new Amazon Prime Video thriller Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. The eight episode series is up now and available for
LONDON — I’m in The UK for a few days to interview the stars and producers of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a series based on the best selling novels and subsequent feature films. Partially shot in Montreal, the action-packed new series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video at the end of August. John Krazinski, buffed
LONDON — How do you get a Bat Out of Hell and onto a musical stage? You call a Canadian. There are actually several Canadians connected to Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell — The Musical, previewing in Manchester in February and opening in London at the beautiful Coliseum in June. The show is produced
Dammit Chloe!! 24: Live Another Day wraps Monday night on Fox and Global. The series did decent numbers, cracking the US top 20 in last week’s Neilsens. 24: Live Another Day has done even better in Canada, pulling 1,421,000 total viewers on Global the last week of June according to Numeris (formerly BBM Canada). That
Security breach: deep inside London’s CIA bunker Jack Bauer? He’s not so hard to find. Monday’s debut of 24: Live Another Day (Fox, Global) would have you believe Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has been a fugitive in Europe for four years, or since the last episode of Season 8 aired in 2010. Suddenly he turn up
Napoleon once said that an army travels on its stomach. Sure, armys are important, but what he really meant to say was “crews working TV shows.” Smart producers know that hiring the best craft services chef is more important than tax incentives. Well, okay, not that important, but important.Reporters on set visits occasionally get to
Juan, Paula, George (with ladder) and Brioux LONDON–Folks who come to this alleged TV site often are probably a little Beatled out by now, but in the spirit of 50 years since ’64, please forgive another indulgence.I’ve been fortunate to come to England this week as a guest of Shaw Media to visit the set