Dead Robot and Sharkboy rid their minds of Disney long enough to regally command the red leatherette armchairs.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
‘The Great Eastern’ archives online
May 23, 2009 – 12:27 pm
As mentioned elsewhere, you can download and listen to the late lamented Great Eastern via that proud Newfoundland invention, the MP3.
you might like it … in about 8 months!
May 22, 2009 – 6:07 pm
Things are so “anything-goes-cause-there’s-no-way-this-paper-will-ever-make-money” at the National Post that Lia Grainger writes …If you’re one of those crime show addicts, try something made in Canada: CBC’s new The Republic of Doyle follows a father and son team of private investigators as they patrol the coast of Newfoundland. That is, once the CBC actually makes the […]
A Little … Weird
May 22, 2009 – 5:20 pm
The Floor Director for The Hour is pointing out the many fire exits to the studio audience, as he must before each taping. But there’s an extra addition to his comedic spiel (and The Hour’s audience will laugh at almost anything). There are two tables off to the side that hold a couple of LCD […]
Tycoons rat out tycoons
May 22, 2009 – 3:15 pm
That Save Local TV campaign CTV has been running? (You know, the one with the great production values and streeters filmed kitty-corner to MuchMusic?) Contrary to the Broadcasting Act, Rogers et al. claim. CTV is shocked and appalled it had to hear about it through a press release. But isn’t that how the ruling class […]
What’s next? Greenscreening Pastor Mansbridge?
May 22, 2009 – 9:06 am
Global TV is making believe a weatherman is in Montreal when he’s really in Don Mills. Reprehensible. But! We’re doing it too, though, as ever, we try to explain it away (CBC merely “resorted to thisâ€).
The case against Bold: No contest?
May 22, 2009 – 9:03 am
CBC doesn’t even bother trying to claim Bold is living up to the licence requirements it originally received (né Country Canada [né Land & Sea]). The CRTC is skipping a hearing on the matter but isn’t rubber-stamping CBC’s eleventh-hour request for a licence amendment.
Nation-touring nude bodypainters on ‘Dragons’ Den’ NOW!
May 20, 2009 – 9:27 pm
Will you not heed their cries?
What if they gave a party and everybody came?
May 20, 2009 – 6:12 am
Even if there turned out to be no reason for it? CBC Montreal fails to announce who gets laid off, as promised; people show up anyway. (Lug a coffin and play Spot the Anglo.)
Who needs Doors Open?
May 18, 2009 – 1:08 pm
“Save Your Local†CTV station CFTO is holding an open house Saturday, May 23. Who’s up for a Tea Makers entourage to infiltrate the place? (The real Doors Open, including tours of Fort Dork, is the same weekend.)
Did we get him wrong all along?
May 17, 2009 – 10:25 am
According to a gushing Toronto Star staff writer, Jee-ahn Go-meshee is: boyish eclectic, cultural, skilled heartfelt, cerebral an ironic hipster a single gadabout prone to career reversals with Denise Donlon: “she’s his boss now†“ambitious and passionate†(self-declared), but possibly over the hill (self-declared)
CBC and TSN wife-swap
May 13, 2009 – 9:37 pm
Can you understand these arrangements for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup?
