Television
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For fun, I just read all the entries I wrote three years ago. What caught my eye was this entry about The Sopranos I wrote on June 6, 2004. The Sopranos Published June 6, 2004 @ 21:58 in TelevisionI just finished watching the season five finale of The Sopranos. Another
Awesome Sopranos episode tonight... damn I'm going to miss this series. Next Sunday at 9pm I'm unplugging all the phones and boarding up the windows. The end is here and there's no telling which way the wind is blowing. This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My
The last couple of Thursday nights I've watched Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. NBC is burning off the final episodes of this cancelled show. I'm still watching, but I've been watching since the beginning. Part of Studio 60's problem, other than that name I can never remember, is that
We were treated to another strong episode last night, which leaves us with two more in the series. I have no idea how this is going to end, but I'd bet it ends badly for Tony. I'll miss Tony, but not like I'll miss Peter Paul Gualtieri. Peter Paul Gualtieri,
I recently wrote about the lack of action thus far in the final season of The Sopranos. I was giving episodes titles like "Tony Plays Monopoly" and "Tony Goes Fishing", because not much more happened. I'm happy to report that something finally happened last night. There's only a few episodes
The Sopranos is half way done their final season. It's the home stretch with but four episodes remaining. As a long time fan, I must say I've been disappointed thus far this season. Everything that transpires seems to be a set-up or a red herring. There's little excitement, just build
Hamilton's CHCH television, now known as simply CH, will soon be rebranded E!. I'll always be grateful to CHCH for bringing us The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Rebranding today's CH as E! is a kin to putting lipstick on a pig. It's a pig that airs Mad TV, but a
Taryn and I have been watching this show called "This American Life" on TMN. It's a Showtime series based on the excellent radio show of the same name. If you've never heard the radio program before, do yourself a favour and download the most recent episode here. Each radio episode
Mitch Hedberg died in 2005 at the age of 37. Here he is on Comedy Central Presents in 1999. As you'll see, he was damn funny.
I watched this yesterday. It's a BBC documentary about an American family fuelled by hate. You can watch it here in seven parts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
Next Sunday is the beginning of the end. Last March I wrote about the two year wait for new episodes of The Sopranos, but we only got 12 of the final 20. Next Sunday we start the last eight episodes of this fabulous series. I recently ranked it #3 on
Are you following the whole Juno Awards time shuffle? A two-hour episode of The Amazing Race was set to clash with the Juno Awards, so CTV announced they would tape-delay the Juno broadcast for those of us in the East. As you might imagine, CTV was criticized heavily for this
The CBC and NHL announced a new television deal Monday that will keep Hockey Night in Canada on the air until 2014. When they lost the Grey Cup, I wondered if the CBC would lose Hockey Night In Canada as well. I can adapt to anything, and I can punch
I've always enjoyed Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald. It airs Saturdays on CBC Radio but you can hear archived shows here. Bob McDonald has a way of explaining complex aspects of science in a way dummies like me can understand. This afternoon I caught McDonald on CBC Newsworld's Mansbridge
For the first time in the history of Jeopardy, a game ended in a three way tie. You can imagine why this is such a rare occurrence. It's really only possible if someone throws a match. See for yourself. I think that guy in the red shirt is a genius.
Whenever I'm channel surfing and stumble upon Robot Chicken, I find myself laughing. It's a show I find very funny but I never make a point to watch it, I just trip over it occasionally and bust a gut. My friend just sent me this very funny little Calvin and
I openly confess that I never caught Open Mike with Mike Bullard on CTV or The Mike Bullard Show on Global. I certainly knew of the shows, and caught ads for the two shows about a billion times, but I never tuned in. Even though I'm not a Mike Bullard
I don't want a lot of television, but sometimes I get exposed to a show because my wife is watching it. This happened recently with Grey's Anatomy. Taryn had heard good things so she rented season one on DVD and blitzed it. I caught about half the episodes, got to
I just wrote about the Elmo and Zooey bit I do with the kids. We've been playing that boo / yay game for over a year now. There was actually a time last year when Michelle refused to wear her Elmo pyjamas because she didn't think I'd like them. I had
There's an running gag in our house regarding Elmo and his gal pal Zooey. They are Sesame Street characters that weren't around in my Sesame Street watching days, so whenever James or Michelle say their names, I give them a angry "Booooooo!!". They have to throw me a Cookie Monster,
I loved watching Ricky Gervais Meets Larry David. If you're a fan of either of these two, or both like me, you'll love this too. It's a five part YouTube extravaganza. It's well worth the 45 minutes it will take you to watch all five. Part One Part Two Part
I miss Six Feet Under. It was quite possibly the best television series I ever had the pleasure of watching and I miss it. Although I enjoyed every episode, my favourite scene might just be the final scene of the series finale. Here's all six minutes and forty eight seconds.
We finished season two of Lost yesterday. Many of you reading this already know details from season three, so please treat me like a mushroom and keep me in the dark while feeding me shit. I'm probably a year away from delving into season three. Lost is a show that
Admittedly, I'm a CBC fan. I listen to CBC radio, I watch quite a bit of CBC Newsworld, I subscribe to CBC RSS news feeds and I even watch a little of CBC television proper. I'm not a CBC fan because I'm a part owner, I'm a CBC fan because
Tim Watley converted to Judaism for the jokes. Jerry knew it, we knew it and Watley knew it. Michael Richards seems to have tried to attempt the same Cosmo Kramer-esque scheme, only he got lazy about it and didn't seal the deal. When it came to light last week that
