Egads! I’m heading down to the annual Television Critics Association summer press tour and I feel like I’ve stepped into Marty McFly’s DeLoren. Tom Selleck, Jim Belushi, Cloris Leachman and William Shatner all have new series to sell. Didn’t I already attend this press tour–in 1985? Actually, 1985 was the year I really did first attend a TCA
Over the past couple of days, two friends commented that they don’t watch Mad Men anymore because they find it kinda slow. Wait, I couldn’t halp thinking, till they see Rubicon (AMC’s new original series, a conspiracy theory drama starring James Badge Dale). Me, I’ll take all the slowed down, measured, true-to-life moments both these series offer.Tonight’s fourth season
Don Draper can see us. Can we see him? Don’t subscribe to AMC and vexed about missing Sunday’s Season Four premiere of Mad Men? Wondering why CTV didn’t pick it up again and give us our Don Draper fix? Looking everywhere for those new episodes of Futurama, even on the Internet, and getting nothing but
Sharp-eyed TVFMF reader M. Mitchell posted a recent comment pointing out an eerie similarity between V‘s rat-gobbling alien high commander Anna (Morena Baccarin, left) and incoming Global National anchor Dawna Friesen (right). Both have that vacant, we-come-in-peace stare thing happening. Friesen isn’t even an illegal alien. The NBC London-based correspondent is in fact a Manitoba
Sutherland senior: where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? What seems most jarring to these failing eyes are the sex scenes in today’s modern miniseries. While The Thorn Birds seemed racy in its day, Father Ralph and that Aussie chick were merely playing patty fingers in the Holy water compared to the sword and sandal sizzle
Degrassi’s move to MuchMusic was a win-win for CTV. The 10th season premiere, kicking off a reformatting of the series as a nightly soap, drew 218,000 viewers to MuchMusic Monday according to overnight estimates. A quarter million viewers across Canada was about what Degrassi was down to Sundays at 7 on CTV. Overnight, the teen
Ever wanted to travel Route 66? The fabled U.S. highway, which more or less cuts diagonally from Chicago to California, was popularized in song and even a cool little TV series a half century ago. Bypassed by super highways and Interstate routes today, it is very much a broken path. That hasn’t stopped Rob Salem (above) and
Degrassi is no longer a generational thing. The series begins its 10th season on a new network (MuchMusic), in a new, nightly, serialized format (Mondays to Thursdays at 9 p.m.) and with a new title (just, plain, Degrassi, goodbye The Next Generation). With the original franchise dating back to 1979, they’d soon have had to