Friday nights have been Screwball Comedies nights all this month of November on Mr. TV Feeds My Family’s favourite channel, TCM.This final Friday night brings three from the great writer/director Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve (1941) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, Christmas in July (1940), again with Stanwyck, always delicious, and The Palm Beach
The right person–Amber Riley from Glee–won the latest Mirrorball Trophy Tuesday night on the 17th finale of Dancing with the Stars. It would not have been an injustice if runner-up Corbin Bleu had won, either. Both brought their A-game every week and impressed judges and viewers with their dancing. Riley’s advantage–having five time winner Derek
Way back in the early ’50s, when CBC first began broadcasting NHL games on Hockey Night in Canada, a friendly service station dealer would greet viewers between periods.He was played, for 16 years, by Murray Westgate. The man became an iconic figure in Canadian television, mainly thanks to these ads.I spotted a few tweets yesterday
How odd is it that, after all the dust settles on Rogers’ $5.2B NHL deal, the guys who still own the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song are TSN.They’ve held the rights for five years, after CBC–which made it part of their Saturday hockey broadcasts for 40 years–refused to meet the songwriter’s
Monday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CBC airs “Republic of Murdoch,” a crossover episode linking Murdoch Mysteries and Republic of Doyle. The story finds Det. William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson, far right) traveling to Newfoundland with Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris, middle). They’re hard on the trail of a fella named Jacob Doyle–who just happens to be the
Toronto Sun TV guy Bill Harris (left) joins me in scrumming a Dalek It is the 50th anniversary of the old British kiddie show Doctor Who. BBC America and Space are airing day long tributes on the 23rd. Me, I’ll stick with WKBW’s Rocketship 7, which started around the same time. But, hey, you Who
It was exactly 50 years ago today–on a Friday as well–that U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated.I remember where I was at the time–Grade One, Mrs. Holland’s class, Our Lady of Peace school in Etobicoke. Mrs. Holland was visibly upset as she wheeled out the large, boxy, black and white TV which sat high
Jake Doyle–weathercaster? Allan Hawco, star, producer, writer and chief bottle washer on CBC’s Republic of Doyle added another line to his resume after stopping by the Weather Network this week. Hawco was rushed into service alongside regular weathercaster Chris Mei at the network’s Oakville, Ont., broadcast centre as a big storm was pounding Newfoundland. Check him out