My CP piece up today is on Keir Gilchrist, the young lad from Toronto who landed a plum role on the Showtime drama United States of Tara. You can read the entire story here.Gilchrist is an impressive 16-year-old who has already survived one U.S. series experience, working on Rob Corddry’s short-lived Fox sitcom The Winner.
It`s no lie–Lie To Me did not bust out of the gate last night.The critically acclaimed crime drama, starring Tim Roth (The Usual Suspects) as a police expert who can tell if somebody is lying just by reading their facial expression, drew just 601,000 on Global last night.Mind you, it had to follow a rerun
Tonight marks the debut of CSI: AWP–as is After William Petersen.Petersen’s iconic character Gil Grissom took his leave last Thursday, with audiences flocking back to wave bye-bye. Nearly 2.6 million Canadians (out of simulcast, as CTV`s PR machine points out) and 24.25 Americans watched CSI at 8 p.m. last Thursday night, the crime drama`s biggest
What will David Letterman do without George W. Bush to kick around anymore? Here is Letterman’s goodbye to three years of comedy gold, otherwise known as “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches“:
Press tour ended days ago–already seems like weeks–but I’ve been writing like mad for people who pay and there is still so much info I wanted to shake out here.One of the things I’ve always found interesting is how other reporters and critics cover this same event, often digging out nuggets I never knew about
The talk was mainly about yesterday`s swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president. Not just on the street or by the water cooler but on today’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen in here.Have to say it was fascinating to see how excited America was at the inauguration. On
Have a feature in today’s Toronto Star on all the “frostbacks” on the January press tour. Read the full story here, or better yet, buy a paper. Please! Frostbacks is an expression I’d never heard of until Star TV columnist Rob Salem spelled it out for me last July–Canadians working on U.S. network television. It
Fellow Beatle fan Bill Harris of The Toronto Sun always has something John Paul George and Ringo as his lap top wallpaper. You can almost hear his computer purr, “Go to the Windows.”Down on the floor of the press tour session rooms at the Universal Hilton, it was this black and white shot of the