This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know more about that shot of me and Batman (posted a few days ago). I tell the story behind the picture, and ramble on about why the 1966-68 superhero series has never been released to home video or the DVD market.Scott also wanted to know if the hockey
Does CTV’s media site logo promoting their just-announced Amazing Race Canada look familiar to you? It did to comedy writer/producer Gary Pearson (That’s So Weird, 22 Minutes). He posted the above illustration on Facebook which shows the similarities between the new Race logo and CBC’s on-air logo from the late ’50s, early-to-mid ’60s.Not that the
News that “Kustom” car king George Barris is auctioning off his original Batmobile had me reaching for my own moment of bat-glory. A roly poly Burt Ward–looking more like The Penguin–and a well preserved Adam West were at a TCA press tour in 2003 to promote the CBS reunion TV-movie Return to the Batcave: The
It figured with Global planning to launch Big Brother Canada that CTV would get into the race. The Amazing Race Canada was officially announced Sunday night on a CTV station break by Phil Keoghan. The series will commence in the summer of 2013, with contestants racing, not around the world as in The Amazing Race, but
A few weeks ago I was in Victoria, B.C. for the taping of a show that airs tonight: The Bachelor Canada’s “After the Final Rose.” A reason for me to watch will be to see how much of what I saw at the taping will be left out of tonight’s broadcast (9:30 p.m. ET on
Was nice to see the non-Olympian win the All Star season on Dancing with the Stars. Former Bachelor reality star Melissa Rycroft and partner Tony Dovolani took the Mirror Ball trophy in Tuesday night’s two-hour finale. The ex-Dallas Cowboys cheerleader peaked at the right time and beat out Olympic gold medal gymnast and former DWTS
Unlike the Stanley Cup, the Grey Cup hasall the names of all the teams from everyyear inscribed on those silver plates Will Sunday’s 100th Grey Cup be the most-watched CFL championship broadcast ever? The game, which begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on TSN, will have to surpass the 5 million-plus total TSN fetched for their
Hagman: the brim kept getting bigger to extend past his eyebrows It was just about a year ago, in January of 2012, when Larry Hagman faced television critics as a group for the final time. The TV icon passed away Friday at 81 of complications from cancer. He was battered but unbowed, thin from the