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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
I've written about the cult of Oprah before. My wife is an Oprah fan. She records every show, reads her magazine, talks about her with friends. She's a big fan. The big Oprah news of the day is that she's pulling the plug on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011.
I loved Seinfeld and I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Last night, as I watched Sunday's episode of CYE, I was treated to the best of both worlds. If you're a fellow Seinfeld fan, you've got to see this episode. The primary Seinfeld actors had a table reading of Jerry Seinfeld
I hate those TV Tax ads. There are the two varieties... the ones from the cable and satellite guys and the ones from the networks telling us "Local TV Matters". I hate them both. That's my tweet after seeing another TV Tax ad during the Leafs game last night. I
I grew up on Sesame Street. I watched it daily as a toddler. In the mid-70s, it was the show for us kids. I recently revisited the late-70s Sesame Street episodes that included Eleven Twelve, one of my favourite bits. Sesame Street became common ground for my kids and I,
I caved and got a PVR earlier this year. It has radically altered the way I watch television. Other than live sporting events, everything else I watch is watched at my convenience after I've recorded it. I watch television when I'm ready to watch television, typically at about 10pm, and
It's almost Halloween. I've got pumpkins to carve, dammit! Here's a special, seasonal message from WUTV Buffalo 29 circa 1984.
I've already admitted I'm a CBC Newsworld fan. It's actually where I get my television news. I have several sources online, but when I'm looking for a news update on television, I get it from CBC Newsworld. CBC Newsworld now has a new name. It's now CBC News Network (CBC
I watch a lot of documentaries. I love a good doc. One of my favourite documentary series is The View From Here on TVO. If you have a PVR, I highly recommend recording The View From Here as it's better than anything you'll find on ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX.
I have a crazy day today. I'm in meetings all morning, than I have a company softball tournament all afternoon before my late night double header for Raging Storm. Since I'll be offline all day, I want to leave you all with one question. Who is your favourite television character
I'm always on the lookout for a good television series. They're few and far between, and TV in the post-Wire world seems worse than TV in the pre-Wire world. I've watched the first six episodes of Nurse Jackie and I'm enjoying it. It's nice and dark, just the way I
Documentary filmmaker Allan King passed away last month, and TVOntario has been paying tribute by airing his great docs. Tonight, TVO is airing Warrendale, and I urge all of you with PVRs to record this gem and the rest of you Ontarians to tune in in to TVO at 10pm
The only late night talk shows I watch are Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart. Both shows get PVR'd every night and I catch up when I can. This past week, I missed a couple of funny bits on Jimmy Fallon's new show and David Letterman. Fallon had Zack Morris on
I'm PVRing The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. I watched the first show on Wednesday night and was taken back to simpler times. There was a time when I wouldn't miss Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and I even saw the show taped at the Elgin Theatre. It was great
Just last night I was checking in on the Blue Jays television coverage when I saw next week's Boston Red Sox games were to be broadcast on TSN2, a station not currently carried by Rogers Cable. That prompted me to write this tweet: Speaking of not watching the Jays on
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. Circle Square was a Canadian children's television series that ran from 1974 to 1986. The series was produced by Crossroads Christian
