Later today at 6:30 p.m., That’s So Weird airs its first ever Christmas episode. The premise has Kayla Lorette (right, with James Hartnett) charged with finding a Santa for the Christmas special and settling on Jake, a grisly old timer she pulls straight out of the old folks home. Ho-ho-no!The whole Santa deal is just
Hillbilly Handfishin’, Storage Wars–what next? A whole lotta stupid is comin’ atcha as networks stoop as low as they can go in their endless search for cheap and unchallenging content. Notice went out the other day about a new show from schlock-meisters Animal Planet called American Stuffers (premiering Jan. 5). It’s about a family of Arkansas taxidermists
A Russell Peters Christmas drew 2,071,000 viewers to CTV Thursday night, an early Christmas present for the private broadcaster.The special was largely panned by critics as well as the 18- and 21-year-olds in my home, who both said they’d rather see one of his stand-up specials.The critical response was so tepid even CTV had trouble
Are some shows just too smart or challenging for the mass audiences that sustain broadcast TV? Take Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, as I do in a feature up on the wire for The Canadian Press this week. You can read the full story here.Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays airs its final episode of the season Tuesday
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know what I was doing in Vancouver. Told him about my trip west to the set of the January CBC drama Arctic Air. We also talk Grey Cup ratings and Christmas specials including tonight’s CTV offering A Russell Peters Christmas (9 p.m.). The pride of Brampton, Ont., hosts
VANCOUVER–Who knew the high arctic was just five miles north of the U.S. border?That’s where CBC held their west coast version of their Winter launch, in the makeshift sound stage where interiors for their upcoming drama Arctic Air are shot. The series, which stars Adam Beach and was inspired by the real life Buffalo Airmen
Tonight marks the debut of the final new network series of the fall: I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox, 9:30 p.m.). It is vile. Please don’t ask about it again.