Dave Thomas and Promo the Robot: somewhere on the Niagara Peninsula Do you remember Rocketship 7? The children’s series, which aired weekday mornings from 1962 to 1978 on Buffalo`s WKBW, was your typical, low budget little local morning show effort. You had your cartoons (those weird Davey and Goliath shorts plus Gumby), you had your
Airplane! star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson says he couldn’t believe all the Pope coverage. It didn’t surprise me. Papal elections, royal weddings, this is the kind of world events that networks can carry and be fairly sure they’ll draw a big audience. CTV, which sent Lisa LaFlamme to Vatican City, says they
From Friday’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Today is the Ides of March. This is when Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back by the people he trusted. Not a good day to be working at NBC.
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if J.R. is gone for good on Dallas. The answer, of course, is yes. Bravo will miss him in Canada; the Canadian specialty channel scored a record 453,000 overnight viewers for Larry Hagman’s tribute episode Monday.We talk about a lot of other stuff; you can listen in here.
We’ve all heard the expression, “Put a sock in it.” MuchMusic has done just that, adding Ed the Sock to their long-running Video on Trial. Ed will be among the comedians making with the caustic comments targeted at videos from the ’90s on Wednesday’s show (8:30 p.m. ET on Much).The Sock used to do this
Can Dallas survive without Larry Hagman? That journey begins now Monday night, Dallas bids farewell to one of TV’s greatest villains.The episode (on TNT and Bravo in Canada at 9 p.m. ET) reunites some former cast members, including Ken Kercheval and Charlene Tilton, as friends and family gather to pay respects to Larry Hagman’s ultimate
Shepherd looking spa-tacular on The Client List Had fun this week working the phone with Cybill Shepherd. Known for telling it like it is, the former Moonlighting and Cybill star returns for a second season Sunday as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s mom on The Client List (Lifetime, 10 p.m. ET).Beautifully unaltered at 63, the former model
Mads Mikkelsen is delicious as Hannibal Lector in the upcoming drama I’ve been busy jetting to TV sets so far this this year–The Americans in Brooklyn, Package Deal in Vancouver, Graceland in Ft. Lauderdale. So it was nice to just jump in the car and drive 20 minutes to the set of a new series launching