Lost without Brian Williams to tell you the time? Curled up in a fetal position humming that “I Believe” ditty?There is life after The Games. A whole buncha new shows are comin’ atcha this week. Here’s one that’s a new-old show–The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. You might have heard something about NBC moving Leno
Holy crap. I take it all back about those closing ceremonies. I just saw Sunday night’s sneak peak at The Marriage Ref. It’s a thousand times more cringe inducing.Although, to be fair, it is funnier.As I watched I couldn’t help but think of Jackie Gleason’s infamous network bomberino, You’re In The Picture. That 1961 stinker
Nothing could tarnish the great Olympic party Vancouver threw the last two-plus weeks. But Sunday night’s closing ceremonies were ridiculous. Balloon beavers and moose? Kids dressed as hockey pucks? Lumberjacks? Jokes about bacon? Mountie rockettes? Who wrote this thing, Bob and Doug MacKenzie? It was such a Canadian cartoon, it was as if Mel Brooks
Shhh–while everybody was busy watching the gold medals pile up and getting ready for Sunday’s sure to be record-breaking hockey tilt, CBC quietly renewed Republic of Doyle and canceled The Border.Etan Vlessing, who always has these things first, broke the news Friday in the Hollywood Reporter.Allan Hawco’s retro-ish detective romp Republic of Doyle broke big
Call me a schmaltzy old rink rat, but this is moving on so many levels. Michael J. Fox–not Terry Fox as NBC mis-identified him earlier these Games–playing shinny as Team Canada’s greatest goals are celebrated. Featured on CTV’s Olympic broadcast earlier this week, you can bet it will be re-broadcast right before or during the
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a flying camel spin is just a…whoa! The horn dogs at bestweekever.tv have assembled “The 40 Most Sexual Photos from the Olympics.” See them all here, and, yes, there is a shot of those beer-swillin’ Canadian hockey lassies.
If you’ve been watching the Olympics (and you have) you can’t help but notice promos for upcoming shows on CTV and NBC. And, no, CTV doesn’t have a new sitcom about a couple of talking cars. Don’t even joke.(By the way–those GM talking cars ads could have been far less annoying and way more effective
Survivor was up against the Women’s hockey final Thursday night so I missed it. The good news is Canada won.Fortunately, I remembered to PVR Survivor, which if you don’t know by now airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on Global—just as it has this entire century.The immunity challenge was some sort of kinky mud wrestling event