Men–and women–without brooms Men With Brooms (Oct. 4, 8:30 p.m., CBC) Take an uneven Canadian feature film comedy about curling. Remove Leslie Neilsen. Keep Paul Gross as executive producer and narrator. Stock it with affable Canadian actors like Brendan Gall, William Vaughan and Joel Keller. Set it in small town Ontario. Aim and sweep.
Last hand: Connelly, Patterson, Cannell and Fillion Stephen J. Cannell was one of the icons of American television. The prolific writer/executive producer lost a battle with Melanoma Thursday at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69. Castle star Nathan Fillion spoke admiringly about Cannell during a visit to the set of the ABC series in 2009.
Over the years I’ve spent covering television I’ve only met a few genuine movie stars. One was Tony Curtis, who died Wednesday in Hollywood at 85. First time I met the man was way back in 1986, on one of my first TCA press tours. Curtis was at the Century Plaza hotel in Beverly Hills,
Glee boss Ryan Murphy between Britney and Brittany Glee emerged as the big Week Two winner in Tuesday’s Canadian TV ratings. The Fox phenom, which featured much music Tuesday night from Britney Spears, pulled an overnight, estimated 2,384,000 viewers at 8 p.m.CTV, as it aggressively declared in today’s press release, didn’t do bad opposite Glee with
It didn’t take long for the old arrogance to seep back into the CTV ratings releases. “Wipe Out! CTV Wins Monday” crowed the latest. “Castle drowns Hawaii FIVE-0 with 1.8 million viewers.”All the networks have been spinning the numbers like crazy in the past week and a half. CTV certainly has plenty to crow about,
One man, two wives. The good news: he saved on insurance There’s plenty of whining on the Internet today about Fox making Lone Star the first cancellation of the season. Some are saying it is being punished for being different or being a serial drama or not having a big name lead. That everything else
Wondering what’s going down on The Good Wife this season? Julianna Margulies for one. At least that’s how it looked when I got a sneak peak at the racy opening scene during a visit last month to the Brooklyn, N.Y. set.We’ll find out if the provocative opener made the cut when the series returns tonight
Thought all the new shows had premiered already? A few more trickle in over this second week of the official Fall season, including this out-of-the-ordinary little hour from ABC: No Ordinary Family (8 p.m., ABC and CTV) Ever take a family vacation and come back feeling super? The Powells did. Dad Jim (Michael Chiklis from