Could it be true? The Simpsons coming to an end?Scott Thompson starts this week’s CHML radio rant off with this question. Told him I had a tour this summer–along with several other reporte4rs on the TCA press tour–of the animation studio north of Los Angeles where the Simpsons are produced. Executive producer Al Jean led
I know what you’re saying. Where are all those CHML radio podcasts with Scott Thompson? Been behind in posting these suckers lately under a flurry of print deadlines but here is Wednesdays yakkity-yak. Scott wanted to know what I thought about Monday’s second episode of Two and a Half Men, what is the difference between
On this week`s podcast with CHML`s Scott Thompson, we talk about the ridiculousness of the Geminis. Wednesday night`s closing gala was dis-spiriting in a whole new way. The host, Russell Peters, seemed to realize he`d made a big career mistake about 15 seconds into his opening monologue. His jokes about the Canadian TV industry quickly
On this week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we get into the dreaded DC–Digital Conversion. If you woke up this morning, turned on your set and got snow, you either forget to pay your cable bill or you are officially now an analog castaway. Canada has made the switch. A moment of silence, folks, for
WHITEHORSE, YUKON–Usually when I do my weekly radio chat with Scott Thompson he’s on Hamilton’s CHML AM900. Monday, however, Scott was working the evening shift over at Corus sister station AM640 in Toronto. So you’d think I would go talk to him in person in the studio, right? Wrong Arctic Char breath.Monday was a travel
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–If you spot Tom Cavanagh on the streets of Toronto today, wish him luck. The former Ed star is competing in an Iron Man marathon Sunday, a challenge he’s tackling along with a bunch of his Queens University pals who are also turning 40 this year. Cavanagh looked in shape at press tour a few
I tell CHML’s Scott Thompson all about Tuesday’s TCA press tour visit to the Film Roman Studios deep in the San Fernando Valley, where they animate The Simpsons. Al Jean and a few of the show`s directors walked reporters through the office, pointing out storyboards and allowing us to peek over animator`s shoulders. A cool
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to hear my take on what’s going on with this whole Rupert Murdoch hulabaloo. Would this hurt the Fox TV News service, he asks.While I cheer the tear down of all-powerful media companies and any exposure of their alleged shady dealings the disturbing thing about the Murdoch deal was the quick and