Canadians love shows about nerds who buy comic books Last week in Canadian television saw its share of reruns and mid-season misfires. The Big Bang Theory was Canada’s most-watched show, with usual suspects Survivor, The Amazing Race and Hockey Night in Canada also crashing the Top-5. Canada’s Got Talent stayed strong at City, with Leaf
Fashion Star “mentors” Jessica Simpson, John Varvatos and Nicole Richie Asking me to review Fashion Star is a bit like asking Rob Ford to recommend a vegan restaurant. The Toronto Star asked anyway and so my review of the new NBC/CTV designer talent search series can be found here. My review in a nutshell: if
Bob’s Burgers makes me laugh. The animated comedy returned Sunday night to Fox’s “Animation Domination” line-up with a funny episode somewhat inspired by The Goonies. If you`ve PVR’d it, watch right to the very end; Cindi Lauper even sings a song over the final credits.The series has a lot of the same visual and verbal
It`s true–Julianne Moore does an even better Sarah Palin than does Tina Fey.Judge for yourself Saturday night at 9 p.m. when HBO and HBO Canada premiere Game Change. The TV-movie is adapted from the best selling book that looked at the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign. Writer Danny Strong focused on the Republican ticket, primarily
Aidan Quinn and Mackenzie Porter take in the Moose Mountain scenery CALGARY–You know if there is a Beatles angle I’ll find it.Which is what I ended up doing about an hour outside of Calgary Thursday covering location shooting for Horses of McBride, a CTV movie currently in production for next Christmas.The holiday horsey tale stars
This week, Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s CHML AM900 gets serious, asking about media coverage of the Tori Stafford murder trial. He wonders what discussions go on in TV and newspaper editorial meetings about how far to go in covering news that can be seen as too private and too horrific. I suggest that common sense
Working opposite New Girl sensation Zooey Deschanel has been a treat, says Hannah Simone. “She will run lines with you all day long,” reports the former MuchMusic VJ and Ryerson RTA grad. “She has such positive energy—we’re so lucky on this show.” Simone has plenty of positive energy all her own. I spoke with the
Over the past few issues of Canadian Screenwriter magazine, the Writers Guild of Canada has been asking trouble makers and agitators industry observers to write open letters to the heads of the Canadian networks. I was asked to rant about Rogers. Sure, let me take the cable hit.As I point out, Rogers, which owns City