For me every year, one of the joys of Cinefest is the chance to add to my collection of 16mm films. Lately I’ve been focusing on trying to acquire film prints of TV shows. Back before digital, DVD or even video tape, networks used to ship 16mm prints to affiliate stations across America. For CBS,
Another Cinefest is in the books and this year, besides a lot of classic black and white, silent and sound screenings, there was some news.The 31st annual gathering of film enthusiasts occurs every March in Liverpool, N.Y., a suburb of Syracuse. I’ve driven through snowmageddons in past years trying to get in and out of
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos. Russell Hantz is dying to come to Canada. “I’m trying to go to Canada but nobody wants me to go there,” the Survivor warrior told me Wednesday on a call set up by Global and CBS. “I hear that I have more fans in Canada than
The kidnapping storyline in the pilot does not wash. No kid would let a strange adult dye his hair, stick him in the trunk of a car and drive him hundreds of miles out of town without getting a tad freaked.The rest of the first episode of Endgame, however, is pretty engaging and holds plenty of promise.
Never underestimate the appeal of The Shat: host William Shatner helped boost the Genie Award broadcast to 480,000 viewers Thursday on CBC according to overnight estimates. Not bad opposite The Big Bang Theory (3,132,000) on CTV. CBC’s Genie broadcast, live from Ottawa, beat everything on Global Thursday night except Bones and more than doubled the estimated
Charlie Sheen. You’re sick of reading about him, I’m sick of typing his name.But he sure is easy to talk about on the radio, as I did today at Hamilton’s CHML with Scott Thompson.It was a historic week for the podcast as I traveled to Scott’s Main Street West studio for the first time. It
Is there anything left to be said about Charlie Sheen? Find out today at 5:30 p.m. ET when I Square Off with old pals Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly. The trip to Hamilton’s CHCH superstation studio is to yak about the Two and a Half Men series killer and, yes, I will tell the Danny Bonaduce story one
Ran into David Shore last January at the Fox press tour party in Pasadena. Shore, who is from London, Ont., is the writer/creator/executive producer behind House. I said to him, “Geez, I couldn’t believe what you got away with last fall in the season premiere.” If you remember, that’s when House (Hugh Laurie) and Cuddy