Imagine if this fall CBS or Netflix or anybody had launched a sitcom about a group of office workers in one of the upper floors of the World Trade Center — and had set it in the year 2001. No one would dare, right? Yet, in 1965, just twenty years after the end of World
Trust CBC to jump right on top of a hot idea. Family Feud Canada comes two decades after the syndicated revival of this game show began (with host Louie Anderson) in the U.S. in 1999. It comes nearly 44 years after original host Richard Dawson starting kissing every single female contestant in sight on the
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
This week on CHML, Scott Thompson wants to know all about dear, departed Dickie Dawson, who passed away Saturday at 79. I confess I used to race home from school in the ’70s just to see Dawson and his pals try to recover from their six martini lunches on Match Game. Always entertaining. It’s not
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