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This week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson gets into the best reality show on television right now–the U.S. presidential primary elections. Listen to our conversation here.The jumping off point this week is the pivotal speech Barack Obama made in Philadelphia yesterday. Obama addressed race the way John F. Kennedy dealt with his Catholicism in 1960,

This week’s podcast with CHML’s Scott Thompson (listen here) gets into the fallout from the CBC pickups and rejections, including the all-too-predictable, knee-jerk joke-of-the-week: ACTRA calling on the government to step in and make CBC uncancel jPod, MVP and Intelligence. Read their boneheaded release here and notice how they can’t even get the name of

Another week, another podcast. This time, CHML Talk Radio’s Scott Thompson and I get into the whole Bill C-10 debate. Sorta makes you nostalgic for the writers strike, doesn’t it? Make a game of it–take a drink every time the phrase “tax credit” is used. Listen up here.Meanwhile, here, from the home office in Ottawa,

More TV talk with Hamilton’s Scott Thompson, including why Jimmy Kimmel should host the Oscars, what’s the deal with that show Tom Green does out of his house and the storm brewing in late night with that whole hand off to Conan O’Brien of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Plus Oprah’s Big Give–does it give you

Is American Idol fixed? Or is the fact that one of the finalists is a former Randy Jackson protégé just the latest Idol rumour designed to keep this karaoke charade at the top of the ratings heap? Scott Thompson and I get into it on this week’s Hamilton Talk Radio CHML podcast, which you can

The topic of this week’s podcast with Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s Talk Radio Station CHML is the brave new world of television. Now that the strike is officially over, will House and Heroes and 24 ever return? (House in April, Heroes in September, 24 in January). Will The Daily Show bounce back with sharp writing

Friday at 1 p.m., punch AM 640 to catch Mr. TV Feeds My Family blab about–say it with me–Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths. I’ll be joining the one and only Mike Stafford on Stafford at Large. We will get to the bottom of several myths, including these tantalizing whoppers: Lee

On this week’s scintillating podcast, some Idol talk with Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s Talk Radio CHML, including my reaction to Tuesday’s season premiere and my discomfort at watching one contestant’s dream come to a shattering end (see today’s earlier post on the same subject). You can listen in here. Thursday morning at 8:05 a.m., tune