Los Angeles is not a place where age is celebrated. The Hollywood sign remains, and the quaint, small-town-y Farmer’s Market and, sure, the Chinese Theatre and Musso and Franks. But this is a city of face lifts, and LA just got its Eye fixed. CBS Television City Studios, aka the cube behind the tube, is
Game Show fans are probably already watching the Jeopardy! Masters tournament, which started Monday on ABC. It features Halifax-native Mattea Roach among the six elite players. She won 23 consecutive games last year — the fifth longest streak in the history of the series. For the past seven decades, up until recently, women could win
With one more full week left in May, here’s a re-cap of premieres and other highlights as networks and streaming services (including a brand new one in HBO Max) pivot towards spring and summer programming: MONDAY MAY 25 Barkskins (Nat Geo). This eight-part miniseries spanning 300 years is based on the 2016 novel by Annie Proulx.
Wednesday night, Fox kicked off the annual mid-season blitz of new TV shows with The Masked Singer. The series is like America’s Got Talent meets The Gong Show, with real singers hidden in goofy and elaborate, sports team-like mascot costumes. Youpee or whoever sings, and a panel of judges (one of them being Robin Thicke)
“Alec Baldwin is a good host for Match Game. When the first episode was over, he showed Rosie O’Donnell his blank.” Yes, the former 30 Rock star is hosting ABC’s new Sunday night version of Match Game, and CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know why. Probably because they offered him a blank-load of money. It also helps
Three on a Match: Deb DiGiovanni, Darrin Rose and Sean Cullen It’s always dicey when you try to reboot a favourite from TV’s past. GSN tried reviving the classic panel show I’ve Got a Secret in 2006 and it stayed a secret.Starting today at 8 p.m. ET, the Comedy Network launches an all new, Canadian
Dawson hosted Family Feud from 1976-’85 and later in ’94-’95 “His mind worked like a steel trap, but he wasn’t the happiest man in the world.” That was Betty White’s assessment of Richard Dawson, who died Saturday at 79. Popular with audiences and contestants for his almost uncanny ability to match words, the Family Feud