Television
Grandmother role a new stage for Happy Days mom
In Toronto to perform in Neil Simon’s play Lost in Yonkers, Marion Ross talks about parenting in prime time
Television
What a screenwriting couple add to Mad Men
Husband and wife are responsible for providing family scenes and casting Jessica Paré
Television
CBC adds more Strombo to boost fall lineup
Popular host’s show will now air at 7 p.m. as a lead-in into prime-time schedule
Television
Who’s afraid of Picnicface? Maybe TV
Feeding off the same comedy dynamic as the Kids in the Hall, Halifax comedy troupe Picnicface was expected to hit it big. Now they’re fighting for survival
Vancouver event searches for a future for the CBC
Reimagine CBC aims to create discussion on how Canada’s national broadcaster should look
Television
Mick Jagger to host ‘SNL' season finale
Rolling Stones singer has appeared twice as musical guest but never as guest host
Celebrity
Ad with Ashton Kutcher in brownface yanked from YouTube, Facebook
Ads with Kutcher as a stoner, tattooed Southerner and pasty fashionista remain online
Simon Houpt
Obama too cool? Good luck with that
If you want a case of vertigo, try listening to a writer who dabbles in descriptions of oral sex when he suddenly turns up on a Sunday morning news panel to offer a lecture on comportment. For there was David Frum, the Ned Flanders of Republican pundits whose newly published first novel, Patriots , opens with the protagonist being serviced awake at 6 a.m. by his girlfriend, suggesting on CNN’s Reliable Sources over the weekend that U.S. President Barack Obama was acting inappropriately by hobnobbing with Hollywood’s cool kids.
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CTV's Flashpoint winding down
Hit crime series ran in prime time on U.S. network TV, will end after five seasons
Awards
Genies and Geminis to be combined
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to bring film and TV awards together in one annual gala show, starting next year
Celebrity
Jessica Simpson gives birth to a girl
Celebrity celebrates first child with former NFL player Eric Johnson
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Footballer Brad Smith to star on 'Bachelor Canada'
Son of former CFL commissioner has played for Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton
Television
HBO renews new series Girls, Veep
Lena Dunham’s coming-of-age comedy benefits from glowing reviews
Celebrity
The celebrity interview is dead. Long live the celebrity interview
Our appetite for meaningless star babble is insatiable. But listen closely, and you’ll find these highly ritualized performances are only one half of the media equation
The battle for 88.1 FM
How to make a mint in a business everyone says is dead
Television: Commentary
Is Vancouver a cultural backwater? Just ask us about Real Housewives
What does it say about this city that everyone is talking about this centimetre-deep show?
Television
Hard-core porn airs on Ontario TV station after programming error
Hamilton’s CHCH morning news broadcast interrupted for several minutes by graphic sex scene
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Second banana once more
Even as she remains Jerry Seinfeld’s foil in endless syndication, the actress is relishing a new role as the world’s most powerful powerless politician
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CBC puts Battle of the Blades on hold
Budget-crunched public broadcaster also cancels drama series InSecurity, Michael, Tuesdays & Thursdays and several other shows
Appreciation
Dick Clark made pop culture
The veteran broadcaster’s show, American Bandstand, holds a spectacular place in popular history
Twitter reacts to Dick Clark's passing
The social-media network heats up with the news of the popular TV host's death
Dick Clark, broadcast veteran, dead at age 82
Popular TV personality hosted American Bandstand, New Year’s celebrations
Television
Bachelor, Bachelorette facing lawsuit over racism allegations
Plaintiffs claim that the popular reality shows are discriminating against contestants of colour
Television
Julian Assange Live, brought to you by the Kremlin
Talk show debuts on network founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin
Simon Houpt
Free network TV? Not if Bell gets its way
Some days, it might seem as if nobody watches broadcast television any more. All you hear about are the buzzy shows on cable (HBO’s Girls , AMC’s Mad Men ) and alternative distribution platforms (iTunes, Netflix). But then you glance at the ratings and realize that most of the top 50 shows are still on good old-fashioned network TV.
Celebrity
Alec Baldwin explains angry tweet about NBC
30 Rock star says he’s still a fan, but the network needs to retool its lineup to address low ratings
Television
The CBC: After the cuts, new enemies emerge
The CBC appears to have traded one enemy for a host of others
Television
TV and the B-word: Claws for celebration?
All hail the dawning of the mean-girl era, where B-word babes are prime-time viewers’ nastiest, awesomest BFFs
Television
Prime time’s newest demographic: the twentyschlumpthing
Our own twentysomething analyst decodes how TV’s most important new show offers a unique window on a generation in trouble
Television
Grisly accident footage is not comedy fodder, Standards Council rules
Comedy Network breached ethics by making light of car crashing into, and injuring, a large group of cyclists
Television
Simpsons creator finally reveals inspiration for Springfield
Matt Groening says cartoon town of Springfield is based on namesake in Oregon
Television
Moore’s tweets prompt reproach about timing
Former CBC employee calls Heritage Minister out over Canadian TV boast while CBC cuts shows and staff
Television
CBC looking for new chairperson
Tim Casgrain’s successor will need to be able to work diplomatically with the Conservative government
Television
CBC cuts current-affairs shows, 88 news jobs
Among the cuts: CBC-TV will develop six fewer series, and CBC Radio One’s foreign-news program Dispatches will be cancelled
Television
Bob Rae outtakes from '22 Minutes'
Liberal Leader Bob Rae has difficulty recording a scene on the satirical CBC show This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Television
60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace dies at age 93
Helped make 60 Minutes the most distinctive news show on American television
Television
Keshia Chante, Tara Oram sign on to YTV's 'The Next Star'
Youth network touts talent show as its top-rated seried
Television
Vancouver's Housewives: Rich, thin and ready to back-stab
If these are real housewives, what does that make the rest of us?
Television
CBC to cut 650 jobs in fighting $200-million shortfall
‘It’s going to mean a very different broadcaster,’ CBC president says
Television
Vancouver's Real Housewives get down and dirty on Slice
They’re super-rich, super-thin and have a talent for back-stabbing. Are they for real?
