I’ve been on the road and hard to reach but finally caught up this week with my old pal Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s News Talk Leader, CHML. He reached me in Vancouver while I was visiting the set of When Calls The Heart, a turn-of-the-century Mountie drama coming in late winter/early spring to Super Channel.Scott,
The Murdoch Mysteries cast came cas to the CITF red carpet Santa Claus, the CFL, Mayor Ford…it seems nothing could stop the Canadian International Television Festival.The inaugural CITF wrapped up Sunday with a packed house for a meet and greet session with the cast of Murdoch Mysteries. The weekend event wrapped on a busy Sunday
Yannick Bisson (left) was a fan favourite at CITF Fans from eight to 80 crammed into the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s largest cinema Sunday to get their Murdoch moment.The entire cast of the hit CBC Monday night drama Murdoch Mysteries took a bow live on stage as part of the inaugural Canadian International Television Festival. Yannick
Sister Bertrile (Sally Field) to the rescue at Sunday’s CITF screening A second “lost” TV special has been added to Sunday’s presentation of the TV on Film Project.ABC’s 1967 Fall Preview reel, A VERY SPECIAL SEASON, will now follow the presentation of NBC’s 1966 reel, TWO IN A TAXI.The one-two punch of ’60s nostalgia will
Set your clocks back exactly one hour if you’re are heading down to the TIFF Bell Lightbox Sunday to see the latest TV on Film Project. The screening will begin promptly at 2 p.m., sharp. The featured presentation is TWO IN A TAXI, NBC’s zany 1966 Fall Preview reel featuring clips from their 10 new
Attention fans of classic television—the next TV on Film Project screening is scheduled for Sun., Nov. 17 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. This fourth screening of vintage TV gems from my 16mm film collection will be shown as part of the inaugural Canadian International Television Festival. It takes place Nov. 15 – 17 in Toronto.
This week, on SiriusXM’s Canada Talks with Arlene Bynon (Channel 167), the two of us go over the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. The broadcast was a big hit, drawing 17.63 million overnight viewers on CBS. That makes it the most watched Emmy Awards Stateside since 2005.In Canada, the awards were up just slightly on CTV,
There’s been lots to catch up on with CHML’s Scott Thompson the past couple of weeks. Scott asks first about Jimmy Kimmel and his latest pants-on-fire YouTube prank. The twerking girl on fire hoax (13.8 million YouTube views and counting!) was sheer genius, I say, but even more fascinating was the countless news reports Kimmel showed