When Survivor returns Wednesday night at 8 p.m., John Cochran will be watching. Not just because he won the last edition of the long-running reality series, but because he’s now a member of the CBS family.Immediately following his million-dollar win, the law grad landed a job as a writer on one of CBS’ new fall
Some set visits are more memorable than others. Such was the case earlier this week when I was on location with the stars of Naked News Uncovered. That’s the title of a new documentary series premiering Monday, Sept. 23 on Super Channel.The eight-part documentary series will follow the stars and behind-the-scenes employees around Naked News’
“I don’t watch a ton of TV, but I have hip friends in LA and New York who like The Mindy Project.” So says James Franco, who guest stars on the second-year comedy as it returns to Fox and City Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. ET. Franco plays a rival MD brought in to replace
The headless critic It’s that time of year again at the TV Feeds My Family house–time for all the packages of promotional items from the networks to pile up at my door.Every day brings more trucks to Brampton, delivering all manner of ballyhoo.One of the most memorable arrived last week–a Headless Horseman zip-up costume hoodie
Gala host Ron James and honoree George Anthony. Photo: copyright Jag Photography The Toronto International Film Festival is often one big hype-a-thon, a blur of red carpet sightings and celebrity hustle. Last Thursday, I had the privilege of attending one sane and civilized little corner of the star cluster, the 6th annual Playback Canadian Film
What happened to Sundays? Zombies stole our shows!Instead of juicy network dramas like Desperate Housewives, the night is now mostly comprised of reality shows and cartoons. The Amazing Race is still dominant at 8 on CTV, and The Simpsons still draws in the demos on Global after nearly a quarter of a century, but it
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
Fridays–where TV shows go to die. That’s been the conventional network wisdom the past decade or so, except at CBS, which has done all right with shows like Blue Bloods. CBS, however, has screwed up Global’s bottom line this season by relocating two shows that do well in Canada–Hawaii Five-0 (right) and Elementary–and bouncing them to