Having a New Year’s Eve special on New Year’s Eve seems so last year. That’s why Air Farce is airing their annual comedy special tonight, New Year’s Day, at 8 p.m. on CBC.Above is a clip posted on-line featuring guest Farcer Rowdy Roddy Piper with Craig Lauzon. Lauzon says it was a career highpoint getting
Some U.S. cable shows still take a little longer to get to Canada. Take Rizzoli & Isles, which premieres Tuesday Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. on Showcase. The police series stars Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander and premiered in 2010 on TNT, where it was an instant hit. A third season has already been ordered.I’ve
A couple of weeks ago, CTV released a year-end ratings tally that showed the private network once again stands as the dominant player on the Canadian TV landscape. The release declared that, from the September launch of the new season through mid-December, CTV had 12 of the Top-20 shows in Canada in total viewers and
Pinnock (second from right) helps his new Farce family drop the F-Bomb Joining a comedy troupe that has been in business for 40 years has to be daunting. Arnold Pinnock proves he is up to the task in the annual Air Farce New Years special, airing Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBC.The look back at
Hard to believe, but today is the 75th birthday of Mary Tyler Moore. As the leggy assistant on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, a Happy Hotpoint elf and especially as Capri slacks-stunner Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the Brooklyn-born actress turned the world on with her smile long before The Mary Tyler Moore
This time of year, everybody who does what I do for a living types up their end of the year highlights. The best & worst of 2011, all tied up with a bow. Mine popped up in several newspapers and web sites after hitting the wire last week for The Canadian Press.I topped my take
Christmas can be a stressful, difficult time of year, but this is unbearably sad. The Associated Press is reporting that Canadian writer/producer Joe Bodolai has died suddenly in Los Angeles. Bodolai was a supervising producer on The Kids in the Hall, the showrunner on Comics! and a writer on Saturday Night Live. He made things like
The Beatles celebrate Merry Gimble, circa 1965. Photo from the vast Beatles archives of Bill Harris, who points out that the crappy tree in the background was probably slapped together in two minutes by roadie Mal Evans “with some stuff he found in a closet at Abbey Road”