It was very nice of John Doyle at the Globe and Mail to include mention of my book in the Globe’s Gift Guide 2008 on the weekend. You can read Doyle’s full article here.John, of course, had great success with his own book, A Great Feast of Light, all about television and growing up in
A week of high comedy in Ottawa continues to boost the fortunes of the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes–just as a cratering Canadian economy has put an extra roar in Dragon’s Den. Whoa, Stephen Harper–who knew you’d go to such lengths to boost the CBC!Mercer pulled 1,150,000 on Tuesday, the series’
Today’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson is, as Jimmy Walker would say, “Dyn-O-mite.” That’s because Walker himself figures in a great story or two near the end of the segment, which you can listen to in it’s entirety here.But first, I worked in a preview of my interview earlier today with Air Farce legends
Today, December 2, 2008, is the one year anniversary of TV Feeds My Family. What started as a shameless attempt to flog my book Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths remains, well, a shameless attempt to flog my book (available here just in time for the holidays, shoppers. Free shipping!)What I
Remember the late ’70s, early ’80s California highway patrol series CHiPs? Spent the day hanging out with TV’s “Ponch,” a.k.a. Erik Estrada. The actor was flown up to Toronto to guest on the new series Switch, premiering next spring on TVTropolis.Yours truly was invited to be one of three “TV experts” joining Estrada in an
Merry Christmas, fired CTV employees. Your lump of coal arrived yesterday.It will be hard for CTV news anchor Tim Weber, entertainment reporter Jacintha Wesselingh (right) and Kate Wheeler of CTV NewsNet to feel the Christmas spirit this week. They are among the casualties in yesterday’s CTV cuts.With the downturn in the economy, massive layoffs have
Today is U.S. Thanksgiving, the unofficial kick off to wall-to-wall Christmas specials season. All anybody wants to know is, when does The Grinch air? Or Charlie Brown? Or Rudolph? If you are looking for a handy guide to all the holiday specials on TV this season, check out today’s Toronto Star. They asked me to
More talk today on CHML with Scott Thompson about how TV is going all to hell. Scott says new surveys are out showing TV viewership is higher than ever, up to an average of eight hours and 18 minutes a day according to Nielsen. Then again, another recent TV survey reports that the people who