Hoping to run into Pampero Firpo as I make my way down to Argentina today. The “Wild Bull of the Pampas” would be right at home at the site of Wipeout Canada, which is apparently located somewhere in suburban Buenos Aires. Global is flying a few Canadian journalists (do the bean counters at Shaw know about this?) down to see our finest compete in
Kodjoe and Mbatha-Raw: if only they were better looking It’s tough on a new show when high expectations aren’t immediately met in the ratings. That challenge seems to be dogging Undercovers right now. I was on the set of the NBC series in Burbank last week. The fourth episode airs tonight at 8 p.m. on
Mom/daughter Racers Andie & Jenna Catching up on some numbers over the past week. MONDAY saw Battle of the Blades slip below the million mark for the results show (an overnight, estimated 969,000) giving little lift to Men with Brooms, which continues to get swept aside against Monday competition (258,000). A new Just for Laughs
And you thought cigarettes were addictive. Mad Men ends tonight for another year. Thirteen episodes fly by so fast. Season four has been terrific and Jon Hamm should be singled out for showing Don Draper both cornered and cowardly as well as cocky and confident–not an easy trick given the character’s almost pathological reserve. Hamm keeps losing the
Talk to the hand UNIVERSAL CITY, CA–Set phasers for stun! That’s what it felt like to wander into the convention lobby at the Universal Hilton and discover it is the home this weekend of something called Hollywood Xpo. The Hilton, parked next to Universal Studios, has been home to TCA press tours in the past
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA.–I usually resent being held captive by NBC on American Airlines flights–I prefer the free range choice you find on the seat back on Air Canada–but one show caught my eye this trip out to the coast. The Airline previewed the series premiere of School Pride, which bows tonight at 8 p.m. on
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA–Whenever I’m in LA I like to attend a taping of a late night talk show. For one thing, you don’t have to stay up so late to see the show.Thursday night, I caught a taping of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Leno’s show tapes on the NBC studio lot in Burbank. Several NBC
Georges Laraque and Anabelle Langois say bye bye Blades A quick look at some weekend numbers, starting with Sunday: Men with Brooms (an overnight, estimated 404,000) did not get much lift from the Battle of the Blades (close to 1.5 million), Heartland at 7 p.m. on CBC did its usual hearty 853,000. Brooms might have