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A lot of people have been asking me lately what I think about Treme, the new HBO series from the folks behind The Wire. The Wire, you see, blew my feeble little mind. It's my favourite show of all time. Naturally, I was psyched about Treme and have been watching.
I just wrote about George Costanza. That got me thinking about my favourite television characters of all time. I'm listing these ten here in no particular order. You may commence judging my ten favourite television characters..... now. Omar Little, ~ The Wire Favourite quote: "'Cause I know she ain't gonna never
Someone rearranged Seinfeld to create a dramatic movie trailer. I can't remember the last day of work which didn't include several Seinfeld references. Seinfeld is the gift that keeps on giving. It's a scientifically proven fact that you can't skip on by a Seinfeld rerun when channel surfing. Seinfeld is,
Mitch called the shot on this blog. In the comments of my entry about Anne Mroczkowski leaving City-TV, he wrote this: I was the one who posted info about Anne's new gig on her wikipedia page a little while back, however it was deleted after Anne's CBC "The Current" interview,
In what can only be described as a wild and crazy coincidence that defies all logic, every actor on Lost is the exact same height.
One of the shows I record with my DVR is ABC's Lost. We're winding down the series and us Losties are looking for answers, dammit! The final episode will air May 23, 2010. I record the show, which means I grab the CTV feed from 9pm to 10pm each Tuesday.
My preferred way to view quality television is on DVD. I'm willing to wait a little in order to bang off a good series unedited without commercials and without waiting a week for a new episode. Last year, I watched the entire series of The Wire on DVD. The Wire
Allow me a moment to explain the current header. In case you're reading this long after it's gone, here's what was at the top of this site at the time of this writing. That's Barbapapa and Barbamama, and if you were a kid in the late 70s and early 80s
It's pretty rare these days that I get excited about a new television series. Sure, I'm up for tonight's premiere of The Pacific, but that's not the show I'm most heavily anticipating in 2010. The show I'm most stoked about is Treme. I stand by my claim that The Wire
Ten years ago, my brothers and I drafted a dead pool. At some point I deemed the contest grossly insensitive and stopped updating the page, but I didn't delete it. Instead, I changed "the dead pool" into the slightly less offensive Celebrity Death Watch. When a famous person kicks the
You know that hockey game that took place Sunday afternoon? 80 per cent of Canada's population watched some part of it. 80%! That's 26.5 million Canadians. That easily makes it the most-watched broadcast in Canadian history. 26.5 million people in a country of 33,311,389. That's astounding.
It's no wonder this CTV / Rogers consortium forked over major dough in order to broadcast these Olympic games. In this age of the PVR / DVR, advertisements are virtually invisible, with one exception: live sports. The only time I see ads on television are during live sporting events, and since Friday
Last night, Conan O'Brien hosted his last Tonight Show. I'm with Coco, and not just because I attended the taping of his show. I like that guy for a whole bunch of reasons. In the clip below from Conan's last show, he teams up with Will Ferrell, Beck, Ben Harper,
I like Howard Stern. I also like Conan O'Brien. I really like this clip from December 14, 2006, in which Howard Stern warns Conan about Jay Leno and The Tonight Show. [via @JimRichardsShow]
Since we learnt bodies were falling at Citytv, I've had a few emails from people on the inside. One gentleman tells me there's a lot of chatter amongst the survivors about Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-347. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-347 was the approval by the CRTC to grant Rogers a "broadcasting
Late last year, Jim McKenny was shown the door at Citytv. He had been doing sports for Citytv since 1984. Prior to that, Rogers had purged several other Citytv institutions, for better or worse. These included the NewMusic, Ed the Sock, Amber Mac, Silverman Helps and Speakers Corner. Similar to
During hockey season, I have a Pavlovian response to Saturday nights. Around 7pm I instinctively seek a comfy seat and a television so I can watch my Toronto Maple Leafs on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. It's an important tradition in my house. This past Saturday night, as the clock
This is everything you need to know about Lost in 8:15. It's a smart refresher before we start season six.
There's a whole bunch of chatter about Jay Leno's 10pm show getting chopped and Leno going back to 11:30 once the Olympics are over. That slot currently belongs to Conan O'Brien. I'm not sure what that move would mean for Conan. Here's something I wrote six years ago about
Lost is the only network drama I follow. We're about to begin the sixth and final season and I'm pretty psyched about it. As per FCC regulations, the cast of Lost has appeared in The Last Supper positioning. Here's that great new promo. Click image above to see it super
I'm still a newcomer to the PVR (or is it a DVR?), having only taken the plunge in March 2009. As you all predicted, it has radically changed the way I watch television. In fact, I don't watch anything in real-time anymore, unless it's a live sporting event. Appointment viewing
If there's a face that symbolizes the Toronto sports scene, it's Jim McKenny's. I don't remember a time when Jim McKenny wasn't doing sports for CityTV. You can see him in this promo for CityTV's CityPulse sports back in 1984. Jim McKenny, a.k.a. Howie, spent ten years in
I'm bumping into embedded Hulu clips more often in the blogosphere. Hulu is a website that offers ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX and many other networks and studios. The quality is great, and because it's a legal channel, you never have to worry that
Item #15 of the Bloggers Code is the following: "When friends make TV shows, free promotion is mandatory". My good friend Humble Howard, along with the gang at Redfish Entertainment Studios, have a new 13-episode docu-reality show entitled "Last Bride Standing". And this one actually airs on a station you
