More behind the scenes “Found Objects” fun over at Harry Shearer’s My Damn Channel. The featured players this time are Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Katie Couric and Chris Matthews, all primping, grousing and chewing gum between takes. Check out O’Reilly working his Fox News vanity mirror. It should come with a warning–“Egos in mirror are
Did CBC jump the gun on that Sophie renewal?Ever since CBC announced they were picking up two of their four January starts, Sophie and The Border, the rookie comedy series, starring Mimi Kuzyk and Natalie Brown, has been sinking like a rock.This Wednesday it was down to 290,000 viewers. That’s a 99,000 drop from the
Global announced today that it is renewing three of its rookie shows: The Guard, ‘Da Kink In My Hair and the summer series The Best Years. Hey, the more Canadian shows the better, jobs are jobs and this news keeps people working in Vancouver and Toronto. But Global’s release suggests that these renewals are “based
Have to admit I don’t watch American Idol all that much (okay, at all), so sitting through two hours of it last night was quite a revelation. As in, when did this show become such a bore?‘Waste of my life,” was my daughter’s reaction. Then again, she’s a Beatle’s fan.Bad enough that the contestants, featured
Numbers are in for how the CBC shows have fared over the first ten weeks of 2008 and the Rick Mercer Report stands at the top of the list, both in total households and in the 25-54-year-old demographic, CBC’s targeted demo.Between Jan. 7 through March 16, the Rick Mercer Report (which featured Anne Murray last
Have to say I was always kind of glad American Idol had been a Beatle free zone. As a life long Beatle fan, it did my heart good that there was somebody out there saying no to Fox’s crazy popular karaoke party.Alas, as George Harrison once said, all things must pass. Idol finalists got to
Remember all that kerfuffle about Bill C-10? Way back a week or so ago?Gawd, Canadian political scandals are so dull. If only somebody at Heritage Canada was trying to take away tax credits from thousand-dollars-an-hour hookers, instead of TV and film producers.That’s why I’m illustrating this post with the Friday cover of the New York
Those folks at The Colbert Report know an editing opportunity when they see one. Here, caught on YouTube (the clip on the Comedy Central Colbert Report site is geoblocked, dammit), is a subtle bit of mischief from last week’s re-broadcast of their February interview with former New York Governor/whore monger Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer has been