I love watching Mad Men.  I'm currently plowing through season 3, so please, no spoilers. They sure smoke a lot in Mad Men.  Here's every cigarette smoked in the show.

There's a new series from HBO coming this September that looks pretty good.  It's called Boardwalk Empire and it's got a lot going for it. It stars Steve BuscemiIt's from Emmy award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The SopranosThe pilot episode was directed by Martin ScorseseOmar's in itLooking forward

In "It's Patrick, He Got Life Insurance", I wrote about an old ad I must have seen a hundred times, but couldn't find. Now I've found it.  Here's the ad: And here's a few reasons I liked the ad. The old dude answered the phone and a mere second later

I think Louie CK is friggin' hilarious, but who doesn't?  His new series has been airing on FX in the USA since June, and I've been hoping a Canadian network would pick it up.  I desperately want to watch this show. Here's part of episode 6.  This is damn funny,

I hear Sportsline is coming back.  CHCH will bring back Sportsline with Mark Hebscher weeknights at 7pm starting this fall. In the late 80s and early 90s, Sportsline was must-watch television for me.  Here's something I wrote about the program in 2008. I got an email this morning from Mark

I watched the finale of Lost on Sunday night.  It was 2.5 hours long, but fast forwarding the ads allowed me to blow through it in about 1:45. Warning: I'm going to spoil the shit out of this episode below.  If you plan to watch the finale, you

I'm all caught up.  I just watched the Man in Black and Jacob episode that explains the origin of The Monster. The second last episode will air Tuesday night.  It's called "What They Died For".  The 2.5 hour series finale airs next Sunday.  It's aptly titled "The End". Here's

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.

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

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

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