MNF`s big three: Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford Frank Gifford was asked recently about the current state of the TV broadcast booth. Gifford, one-third of the most famous trio of Monday Night Football announcers (the others being Howard Cosell and Don Meredith), said he wasn’t too impressed. All that boosterism bugged him, he said.
Drew Carey isn’t half the man he ised to be. The once rolly-poly comedian has shed close to 90lbs as regular viewers of The Price is Right can attest. Carey dropped so much weight by the press tour last August that many reporters walked right by him at the CBS evening event. In his tan
The stars of the Canadian series “The Border” Are Canadian TV shows really anti-American? That seemed to be a concern in the wake of the recent WikiLeaks revelations. According to a January, 2008 dispatch from the American Embassy in Ottawa, made public this week, U.S. officials perceived an anti-American bias in some CBC melodramas.This had
“What is it you want, Mary? You want the moon?” Every year around this time, TV networks haul their annual holiday offerings out of the vault. Over 80% of them are reruns from season’s past. Some, like A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966),
Glee, what the hell?! One week you are crazy stupid, marrying Sue Sylvester to herself, tarnishing the legacy of Carol Burnett, trying too hard to salute Singing in the Rain, the next you are offering a coherent, spirited story about a high school glee club.Tuesday’s episode, “Special Education,” allowed all of the young cast members to
Took my car in for a winter tune up today and the subject of Sunday’s Grey Cup game naturally came up. Consensus: not really that exciting.Still, that didn’t stop 6.04 million CFL football fans from tuning in on TSN and RDS according to overnight estimates from BBM Canada.The Alouette’s second straight Grey Cup victory drew
22 Minutes is quietly having a stellar year–despite CBC’s best efforts to kill it.The 16-year-old Canadian comedy showcase hit 925,000 viewers last week, pretty amazing given how little publicity the show receives. That’s like, what, three times what Being Erica gets? At, what, one-third the per episode cost??If it is acknowledged at all in CBC
When the Naked Gun movies came out in the late ’80s and early ’90s, friends would not sit next to me in the theatres–I laughed that much. So, when I was invited to have lunch with and interview Leslie Nielsen in the mid-’90s, when he was in Toronto promoting his mostly made up autobiography, The Naked