This is probably as close as I’m going to get to be “living on the air in Cincinnati.” Starting today, I can be heard each Monday morning sometime between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. talking TV with Mike Miller on WIMA-AM News/Talk Radio out of Lima, Ohio.Why Lima? Dave Woodward, the program
When I called Rachel Griffiths a few weeks ago for the cover story running in Saturday’s Toronto Star Starweek magazine, I reached her on her cell. “Sorry,” she said, apologizing for not being on a land line. “I’m just coming from a class.”What kind of class, I asked. “I do a little tantric sex class,”
Have you seen Oprah lately? On Fridays?In an effort to reinvent itself, the dominant daytime talk show of the past two decades seems to have lost its focus. Why is mighty Oprah trying to be The View?That’s the impression I get watching Winfrey sit behind a large, white desk–something that looks like it was left
Tonight’s the night The Office moves to Winnipeg. Or, at least, Michael Scott and Andy Bernard are two of the lucky Dunder Mifflin employees off to the Manitoba capital in tonight’s episode of The Office (NBC, Global, 9 p.m.).Maybe while they are there they can stop by the Canwest Global headquarters and solve a few
Rumoured for weeks, the axe fell Wednesday at Canwest Global Communications. And it fell hard and sharp. It was announced that 560 jobs would be eliminated in the media company’s newspaper and broadcasting businesses. This after an estimated 200 had already been lost in the last few years. Read the Canadian Press report here and
This week on TV Talk with CHML’s Scott Thompson we touch on last night’s battle of the old farts: Sen. John McCain’s visit last night on Leno and Don Rickles performance on Letterman.Nice guy Jay surprised by asking some pretty direct questions, such as if McCain now wishes he had chosen a more economically-versed candidate
Suffering from post-election with drawl? Jay Leno has John McCain on tonight (11:35 p.m., NBC, A).Letterman gets snubbed again.No surprise McCain chose Leno over David Letterman to re-appear in public. After ditching Dave when the economy went south, the Arizona senator flamed out in that last, desperate, pre-election Letterman appearance. His well rehearsed “I screwed
Network ratings releases are like luncheon meat. Best to check the label and give it the ol’ sniff test before consuming.Still, CTV delivered a nasty one-two yesterday to the chin of an already staggering Global.The CTV release suggests the network has outperformed Global by 92% in the ratings so far this season. What’s more, those