As my eagle-eyed daughter pointed out the other day, the current issue of Rolling Stone–with various members of the Glee cast on the cover–bears a strong resemblance to a 70-year-old poster hanging in our family room. While there is no panties peek (as provided left, centre, by cheeky Lea Michele), the original poster, promoting the
Like Betamax machines and UHF receivers, community programming seems like something out of the ’80s. Maybe it just looks that way to me because I was involved in that game over 25 years ago as a volunteer producer for long defunct MacLean-Hunter Cable TV in Etobicoke. You mean you never heard of Bullock & Brioux
As previously noted here at TVFMF, Canadian specialty channels continue to stray ever farther from their original mandates. Parking Wars Marathon on TVTropolis? Garage Gurus Week on Discovery? Lordy.Meanwhile, down in Hollywood, Turner Classic Movies continues to show specialty channels on both sides of the border how to stick to your brand and delight your
If Bugs Bunny ever met J.T., he’d say, “What a ma-roon, What a gull-i-bull.”The dumbass paid for his immunity idol giveaway last week, voted off Survivor at the first merged tribal council after Parvati saved Jerri’s MILF ass with the idol J.T. gave up the week before.“I feel like a total idiot right now,” J.T.
The first round of the NHL hockey playoffs is giving some of Canada’s regularly scheduled programs hiccups.In particular, the new Monday night at 8 CTV sitcom pair Hiccups and Dan For Mayor were bodychecked down to series lows opposite playoff games on two other channels. Monday’s BBM Canada overnight estimates saw both Hiccups and Dan
Last Wednesday, as if to show it is still daddy, the CRTC denied CBC’s application to reformat its rural-themed specialty channel Bold–something CBC went ahead and did two years ago.A license for the service was granted in 2000 for what CBC then called Land and Sea. It was supposed to be a service for rural
Priests have been getting a lot of bad press lately. As Bill Maher said the other night on Real Time about the Pope, “You know your reign’s been tainted when you long for the days when people just thought you were a Nazi.”Which sort of brings us to this story I wrote for The Canadian
Tonight is the “Madonna” episode of Glee, a hot topic during my weekly chat with Lima, Ohio morning man Mike Miller at WIMA. The Clear Channel station is broadcast out of the very city where Glee is supposed to take place–Lima.They never hear the term “Lima loser” in Lima, one of a number of sore