Is it too early to report winners and losers from the fall TV season? Not really. Five U.S. network shows have already been canceled: in order, they are NBC’s The Playboy Club, Hank Azaria’s NBC comedy Free Agents (the one I had first in the pool), the dumb CW reality show H8R, CBS’s How to be a Gentleman
Isn’t it curious how you can say all kinds of S#*! on television that you still can’t say in print?I’ve been wanting for several weeks now to comment on how raunchy the new sitcoms were this season. The pilot for 2 Broke Girls, for example, showed a customer in a restaurant snapping his fingers at
Craig Ferguson’s suggestion to critics a few years ago that they not even attempt to review late night rival Jimmy Fallon’s NBC show until it was up and running for three months should probably apply to morning shows. Launching a daily anything is a monster job in television, requiring production, planning, rehearsals and, above all,
Seems every fall is Cherry picking time. Will CBC fire Grapes? That is CHML Talk Radio host Scott Thompson’s question as we begin this week’s radio podcast. You can listen in here.Seems a few former NHL enforcers are mad at Don for calling them “pukes.” Everybody take a deep breath. Cherry isn’t going anywhere. Who
Saw this posted a few places on Facebook yesterday and its worth a look here if you haven’t witnessed it yet. It’s a clip from The Lang & O’Leary Exchange on CBC News Network, but it is the exchange between co-host Kevin O’Leary and guest Chris Hedges that is so fascinating. O’Leary’s attempts to Don
Nothing says Canadian Thanksgiving like a documentary on a 200 year old war.I learned a lot about the War of 1812 interviewing Lawrence Hotz. He’s the producer/director behind tonight’s unique Can-Am co-production The War of 1812 (Buffalo PBS affiliate WNED 9 p.m.; check other PBS affiliates in your area).For one thing, the expression “the fog
Murdoch‘s Yannick Bisson: last call? You can tell when a show has the stink of doom on it. Everybody smiles too much. There is a lot of talk about how great the lighting is, or the crew, or the sets–even the craft services grub. I never had a better crew lunch than on my recent
Could it be true? The Simpsons coming to an end?Scott Thompson starts this week’s CHML radio rant off with this question. Told him I had a tour this summer–along with several other reporte4rs on the TCA press tour–of the animation studio north of Los Angeles where the Simpsons are produced. Executive producer Al Jean led