The passing of popular NBC commentator Tim Russert, the polarization of cable news and the endless death march that is the U.S. presidential election campaign are topics touched on during this week’s radio chat with CHML‘s Scott Thompson. You can listen in here.
I’m on with Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly on CHCH’s Live & 5:30 today to talk about sexism in the newsroom. Specifically: why there are so few female network news anchors? The rant is tied to the fact that Quebec’s leading news anchors are both women. Vive la difference! Otherwise, what is this, 1973? Ratings
Last week in New York for my birthday, I treated myself a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. I’ve had that privilege several times in the past and always found it the fastest hour you can spend in Manhattan. Plus, well, tickets are free. The show is taped in Studio 6A deep within that
Tell us not in mournful numbers: Othello drew a measly 175,000 viewers across Canada Sunday. Talk about a tragedy! The Shakespearean drama, headlined by Carlo Rota from Little Mosque on the Prairie (left), was one of the select summer projects to get a P.R. blitz from the CBC’s outside promotional agency, Media Profile. Me thinks
Occasionally, we here at TV Feeds My Family get sent memos. We don’t ask for them, we don’t look for them, they just arrive, mysteriously, via email. Here is one sure to be of interest to the veteran team of CBC publicists gassed a few years ago by the Corpse: “June 12, 2008 John Bozzo
Sad, shocking news about Tim Russert, the NBC News correspondent and Meet The Press host who died Friday of a heart attack at 58. Russert was a proud native of Buffalo. N.Y., and boasted that he attended the famous 1969 Woodstock concert “in a Buffalo Bills jersey with a case of beer.” Before he went
Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), who whistled his way to that fishin’ hole along with young Opie (Ron Howard) at the beginning of every episode of The Andy Griffith Show, squeaked out a win in the TV Feeds My Family Father’s Day poll. Seems about right to me. That episode with the dead bird and
Promised my cousin Carol Brioux Steed I’d get word up here about Briouxpalooza ’08, the big clan reunion taking place today in Peterborough, Ont. About 350 Brioux friends and relatives are expected to make the trek to the cradle of Briouxdum. There is a street named after the Brioux family in this town, where our