Cast members applaud the creative team at the end of Friday’s taping VANCOUVER–Four-camera sitcom tapings can sometimes be a bit of an endurance test for studio audiences. You go in thinking you’ll whiz through a live taping of a half-hour sitcom. Five or six hours later, you swear you’ll never watch television again.This was definitely
Bachelor Brad Smith: Rogers renewal on the thorns of a dilemma Let’s give TV Guide Canada credit for this scoop: Rogers/City has ordered a second season of The Bachelor Canada.The news was tweeted Monday. The fine print, however, was a puzzler: According to Rogers’ programming boss Scott Moore, Bachelor Canada won’t be back until 2014.So,
Tonight is Halloween, but it was Rogers shelling out last night at their cool and comfy in-house Toronto screening room, the Velma Rogers Theatre. That’s where the inaugural TV on Film Project was launched, and many thanks to the folks who braved the elements to come down for an early night of classic TV gems
The view from City-TV’s rooftop in Toronto’s Yonge/Dundas Square Rogers Media invited press to breakfast with its top TV executives Thursday atop its City broadcast centre at the Yonge/Dundas Square. The view from there is very Tokyo/Times Square, with plenty of downtown billboards. A big, circular portrait of Sash Baron Cohen as The Dictator looks
Max Greenfield: Schmidt was in the house It’s “Upfront” Week in Canada, an odd mix of American razzmatazz and Canadian reserve. Rogers’ kicks off a week of these things with their 2012-13 upfront today at Massey Hall in Toronto.In past years, the Canadian nets seemed to be trying to out do each other with pricey venues
City-TV announced today that Brad Smith will be the dude on The Bachelor Canada.Smith, 28, caught a few passes in the CFL as a member of the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Eskimos. He’ll takes passes this fall from a bevy of eligible Canadian babes desperate for the kind of naked humiliation only a
Over the past few issues of Canadian Screenwriter magazine, the Writers Guild of Canada has been asking trouble makers and agitators industry observers to write open letters to the heads of the Canadian networks. I was asked to rant about Rogers. Sure, let me take the cable hit.As I point out, Rogers, which owns City
The folks at Rogers held a press conference Friday in Toronto to promote Canada’s Got Talent. The star search spin-off premieres Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on City-TV.The three judges–Martin Short, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman and composer Stephan Moccio–joined host Dina Pugliese at the session, along with executive producers John Brunton and Ed Robinson.How