Blogging from the cozy “Two Chicks” cafe from beautiful downtown Sauble Beach, Ont. Feeding My Family from here for a week so set receptors for summer schedule.Speaking of two chicks, if you are a fan of How I Met Your Mother and was amused, as I have been this past season, at the attempts to
More memories of Ed McMahon are shared on this week’s TV talk on the radio with CHML’s Scott Thompson. There’s also a recap of the BRC event, a peek at that flame-throwing Lady Gaga brattack at the MMVAs and a final solution for those Jon & Katie kids. Listen in here.
As I mentioned off the top of last night’s BRC gala, it had been a while since I had addressed this room. A dozen years, in fact.The Broadcast Research Council, a group which acts as a liaison for Canadian broadcasters and advertisers, have been hosting these annual Fall Preview events for years. This year I
In October of 2006, I headed out to the Music Hall in Toronto to see Tonight Show legend Ed McMahon. I had interviewed the veteran sidekick on the phone a few days earlier for the Toronto Sun (read that story here). He sounded excited to be coming to a place called the “Music Hall,” and
Homer Simpson and Al Bundy topped our last-minute Father’s Day poll of TV’s Top Dads. But the guy who came next was once considered the daddest of them all.Hugh Beaumont played ’50s middle class protodad Ward Cleaver for six seasons on Leave It To Beaver (1957-63). He was the man of the house, a total
The same thing is happening with The Listener that happened with Flashpoint. Strong Canadian numbers, not-so-strong on the U.S. side.CTV drew 1,079,000 viewers to last Thursdays show, which is well placed between top-rated So You Think You Can Dance (1,552,000) and the resurgent CTV National News (1,155,000. All numbers BBM Canada overnight “commercial” estimates).The strong
Catching up with a couple of recent radio reports. This Thursday’s TV Talk with CHML’s Scott Thompson was all about Stanley Cup final hockey ratings on both sides of the border. The other hot topic is the late night wars including that whole David Letterman/Sarah Palin thing. Letterman crossed the line, in my opinion, not
Talking TV with CBC Radio host Rita Celli today after 1 p.m. on Ontario Today. The subject is how you watch television–do you PVR it, stream it off your computer, catch it on your iPod–anything but actually watching it off a network schedule on a TV screen, right? Well, maybe. I still say the PVR