When I was living in LA in the mid-’80s I got to know a technical co-ordinator/assistant director named Rick Beren who worked on Cheers. Young and not above camping out on a contruction site to save a dime, he and his girlfriend lived on his boss’s very modern-looking house in the heart of Beverly Hills
There are billions of reasons why, come the fall, CBC will break with tradition and will no longer be carrying NHL games on Saturday nights in Canada. It all comes down to one multi-billion dollar NHL rights deal ending and another just beginning, The old deal, signed in 2013, saw Rogers’ Sportsnet end CBC’s grip
Soccer beats hockey in Canada? Last Friday’s FIFA World Cup match between Canada and Herzegovina, on linear channels alone, drew an overnight, estimated, average minute audience of close to 3.9 million viewers. Most watched on TSN (2,899,000), others on CTV (910,000). An unknown number streamed the game on Crave, so expect the combined-combined total to
There has been a lot of talk lately that talk shows, as we know them, are too expensive to last. The big band, the studio audience, the nightly monologue — they all cost money. Well, Tom Green thinks he has the answer. He’s growing the talk show of the future on 150 acres in Ontario
At one time jokingly self-billed as “The World’s Slowest-rising Comedian,” Ronnie Schell is rising no more. The actor/comedian passed away Friday in Los Angeles. He was 94. A native of northern California, Schell played semi-pro baseball and then served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He first caught the showbiz bug at iconic Bay-area
Did Canadian hockey fans stop watching the Stanley Cup playoffs with the elimination of the last remaining Canadian team at the end of the Third Round? That would be a resounding yes/oui. In Game 1 of the finals, played on Tuesday, June 2, the game between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes drew
While indulging in my awful habit of endless TV watching, I suddenly recognized that I turn on subtitles for almost everything I watch. It has nothing to do with my hearing (which admittedly is lousy), but everything to do with the befuddling world of British accents. All of my favourite viewing right now comes from
When I was living in LA in the mid-’80s I got to know a technical co-ordinator/assistant director named Rick Beren who worked on Cheers. Young and not above camping out on a contruction site to save a dime, he and his girlfriend lived on his boss’s very modern-looking house in the heart of Beverly Hills
At one time jokingly self-billed as “The World’s Slowest-rising Comedian,” Ronnie Schell is rising no more. The actor/comedian passed away Friday in Los Angeles. He was 94. A native of northern California, Schell played semi-pro baseball and then served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He first caught the showbiz bug at iconic Bay-area
If all he ever did was create Turner Classic Movies that would be reason enough to celebrate Ted Turner. There was so much more, however, to the maverick entrepreneur, adventurer, sports team owner, conservationalist and philanthropist, as captured in the TCM Remembers video, above. Jane Fonda’s favourite ex-husband (as she characterizes Turner) passed away Wednesday
One of the shining stars of Canadian television in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s was Dinah Christie. The This Hour Has Seven Days and Party Game performer died Friday, April 10 at 85. The London-born actress-singer came to Toronto with her actor parents at the age of two. In the “born out of a trunk”
I only met him one time, but it was quickly apparent that you never had to guess what Robert Duvall was really thinking. Other reporters have similar stories. He once grumbled publicly about having to go to Canada to shoot great American stories, dismissing Canadian actors as “not good.” The Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and
James Van Der Beek is best remembered for his role as Dawson Leery in the teen drama Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003). The Austin, Texas native, however, who passed away February 11 at 48, also has the rare distinction of playing a version of himself as a character on TV. That was on the ABC sitcom Don’t
