True Blood showrunner Alan Ball put a bow on his hands-on involvement with the series with Sunday’s Season Five finale and the dude pretty much let ‘er rip. There was plenty of sex, violence and especially blood in the episode, which to my eye played like a campy old Batman episode as if directed by
Coppers Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) and Maguire (Kevin Ryan) One of the most impressive sets I’ve ever been on is the one for Copper. The pre-forensic cop show premieres Sunday night at 9 p.m. in Canada on Showcase.I had an opportunity to visit the Toronto set back in early May. The producers, Cineflix and BBC America, have
Saluting Silk. I tried to dress classy like Looking for Lost Girl? Showcase’s favourite succubus can be found Saturday at Fan Expo in Toronto. Anna Silk (Bo), Kris Holden-Ried (Dyson), Ksenia Solo (Kenzie), Rick Howland (Trick), Zoie Palmer (Lauren) and KC Collins (Hale) will all be live and in person, appearing together on a panel in Hall G from 12 to 1 p.m. and signing autographs from
After a few weeks off, CHML’s Scott Thompson had plenty of questions. First he wanted to know all about my recent trip to Dieppe. I was in France for the memorial celebrations surrounding the 70th anniversary of the WWII invasion (see previous postings). David O’Keefe, the Montreal historian who spent 15 years digging into declassified,
From Tuesday’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: At the age of 50, Roger Clemens has signed on to play for a minor league team in Texas. You can tell he’s getting up there. Today he tested positive for Activia. Follow @BillBriouxTV
Phyllis Diller, who died Sunday at 95, always struck me as the female Bob Hope. Her delivery and timing were very much patterned off Hope’s confident, straight at you patter. Like Hope the master, how she said things was usually funnier than what she was saying. With Diller, you thought it was all about how
Windom in 1997 William Windom’s death last Thursday brings up another indelible memory from that last stop on the fame machine, the Hollywood Show. Back in 1997, the Emmy-winning actor, who died of heart failure at 88, was among many celebrities from TV’s “Golden Age” taking part in autograph meet-and-greets with fans. At the time
DIEPPE, France–This is the view from my window at Les Arcades de la Bourse at Port de Plaisance.Well, it was when Joseph Vernet painted it back in the late 1700s.There are fewer tall ships now, a lot more white cruisers and power boats. Still, not a lot else has changed, as you can see by