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I've been coughing up coin on a monthly basis to Rogers so I can get TMN and Rogers on Demand. I've been doing this for years. You can blame The Sopranos. A few months ago, Mike, a reader of this blog, let me know about channel 300. I've always watched
Have you heard Dave Devall is retiring? He's one of North America's longest serving meteorologists and he'll officially retire as CTV Toronto's Weather Specialist on April 3, 2009. I never got my news from CTV. I suppose we all have our favourite television news stops, and mine has changed over
I just got the email below form Horonymous. Hi Mike.Looks like Global Toronto will be canceling their noon news show. No idea how this will impact staffing levels.http://www.b-roll.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22747Take Care HoronymousAdvertisers drive media and in tough economic times advertisers typically show
The only network drama I still follow is Lost. I dig it. The way I've always watched Lost is on DVD, and I've always been one full season behind the rest of you. Until now... We have only the season four finale to watch on DVD before season five premieres
Fact: Doogie Howser was the world's first blogger. Think about it... he sat at that computer and typed out crap nobody but he would care about. Now that's blogging!
A lot of my favourite television shows weren't seen in 2008. The Sopranos finished up in 2007 while Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight of the Conchords took the year off. In 2008 I watched less traditional television than ever before, spending more time with documentaries and movies. I was about
The NewMusic first aired on CityTV back in 1979. As I mentioned yesterday, this show has been cancelled. The NewMusic was smart. I watched this show weekly as a younger man, as it was the only music show that was both cool and smart. MuchMusic is now for the brain
At Queen and John Streets, you'll now find Moses Znaimer Way. The CITY-TV founder has been honoured by city hall with a street sign bearing his name. I find it ironic that they're resurrecting a sign to honour Moses while Rogers dismantles every stitch of ingenuity he brought to CITY-TV.
I call it the show I love to hate. Californication is a David Duchovny series my wife and I watch and it drives me batty. It's so damn contrived and cringe inducing. It's that guy you know who tries so bloody hard to be cool, he's anything but. We just
I never watch non-sports or non-news television before 9pm, but in need of a little break from a project I'm working on I just caught a little of a show called Ad Persuasion airing on IFC. They opened with a Coke commercial from 2006 that I completely missed. The jingle
Speaking of the mid to late 90s, one of the television shows I enjoyed at that time was The Drew Carey Show. Although the show aired for nine seasons, there was a dramatic drop-off in quality after the first few years. I think I stopped watching Drew back in '99.
Hey, remember Toronto One? I just hit up the archives to throw down something from five years ago when I saw this entry I wrote five years ago tomorrow. A producer for Toronto Tonight had asked me if I was interested in appearing on their program. The program aired on
I've got a new television station. Channel 302 is now HBO Canada and it's free with TMN. On the surface this sounds pretty cool. I've been a huge fan of some HBO shows, from Dream On to Larry Sanders through Oz, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. Some of my
Have you heard that tune by Kid Rock? The one that borrows from Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama?" Of course you've heard it, who am I trying to kid? Every time I hear it, I think about how great Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. Back in 1983, there was only one way to celebrate Halloween. You stayed home and watched Seeing Things on CBC. Seeing
Last night, I watched the third episodes of a couple of shows that air here on The Movie Network. I watch them On Demand, which I find awfully convenient, and one is three-for-three in terms of making me laugh while the other is three-for-three in terms of making me cringe.
I'm busier than a one-toothed man in a corn-on-the-cob eating contest. Too busy to produce some wonderful fresh original content for you, here's something I wrote four years ago today. I've been pretty busy this week, so I only got around to reading this week's Starweek television guide this afternoon.
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around I just
Buffalo native Kathleen has just informed me that Goldie Gardner has finally retired. You may not know that name, but you know the face and you know the voice. We Torontonians have been bombarded by Goldie's pleas to give to PBS during the many pledge drives on Buffalo's WNED 17
Rogers Cable has told Ed the Sock creator Steven Kerzner that his last show on CITY-TV will air August 31. Ed the Sock joins Amber Mac, Silverman Helps and Speakers Corner in the Rogers CITY-TV graveyard. My brothers and I used to watch Ed the Sock on Cable 10 before
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. I'm sharing this Geocel Caulking ad because it includes one of the most unintentionally hilarious lines in Toronto advertising history. Perhaps
I don't watch much tv. We're currently going through season 3 of Lost on DVD, and I check out This American Life on TMN On Demand, and if a decent movie shows up there, we'll check it out, but otherwise it's all about live sporting events. Still, every once in
Citytv has axed Speakers Corner, the long-running program featuring clips from the automated video booth at the intersection of Queen Street West and John Street. I remember when they opened that Speakers Corner booth in the late 80s and it was a big deal. The show was fun viewin' as
The saga of our second national anthem, formerly known as the theme to Hockey Night in Canada, has come to a surprising end today. CTV has acquired the rights to the theme song that has played on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada for 40 years. "Beginning this fall, the song
Sometimes things happen in the comments and people miss it. Most visitors pop in, scan the latest entries and skedaddle. Even though I link to an RSS feed for comments in the top right corner, I see only a handful have subscribed. Four days ago I wrote about the Hockey
