CULVER CITY, Calif. — David Duchovny says go ahead–laugh at his sex scenes in Californication. The former X-Files star made the comment today on the set of his racy Showtime series, which returns for a second season in Canada this September on The Movie Network/Movie Central. Duchovny was speaking to a few dozen foreign journalists
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Hang around Murtz Jaffer and his posse of reality show stars (see posting below) and you hear some pretty strange things. Hot rumour floating around the Farmers Market Monday night: O.J. Simpson will be on the next Celebrity Apprentice. How would that work?Donald Trump: “You’re fired!”O.J.: “You’re dead!”Still, don’t be alarmed
As expected, Disney’s Camp Rock rocked the ratings on both sides of the border. The Ontario-produced TV-movie, featuring red hot teen sensations The Jonas Brothers, drew nearly 850,000 viewers to the Family Channel premiere June 20, rating it as the second-highest non-sports broadcast among Canadian specialty broadcasters in the past five years, bested only by Disney’s
LOS ANGELES, Calif.–For Murtz Jaffer, the line between reality and fantasy hasn’t just been blurred, it’s been erased.A University of Toronto grad, Jaffer used to heckle me at The Toronto Sun when I was the cranky guy whinging about having to cover Survivor every week. He loves reality television, eats, drinks and sleeps it, boasts
LOS ANGELES, Calif. –“I’m totally stoked!”That was Jimmy Smit‘s three word, concise, parking lot pronouncement about joining the cast of Dexter next season. Smits was on the Sunset Gower Studios lot for a table read today with Dexter star Michael C. Hall and fellow cast members Julie Benz (who plays Dexter’s long suffering girlfriend, Rita),
LOS ANGELES, Calif.–So how come on Air Canada when you dial up all the options on the LCD screen in the headrest in front of you there are no CBC options? Winged it down to LA last night (in town for various interviews, including set visits to Dexter, Californication and Craig Ferguson) and decided to
Do you have Jonas Brothers fever? Are you all caught up in Disney’s “Camp Rock” commotion? Do you not even know or care about any of this? Get with it, grandpa–the people behind those High School Musical films are getting ready to take over the universe once again. Read my take on Camp Rock, which
It’s going to be a long summer for Canadian network programmers. The summer switch off seems to be in full force despite plenty of programming. Nobody seems too jazzed about the reality poop being hurled at the screens. A look at the June 9-15 Nielsen/BBM Ratings tells the tale. As predicted in my Toronto Star