BILL BRIOUX does some nice work contextualizing the Geri Hall 22 Minutes imbroglio, which I took on here, over at his digs, TV Feeds My Family. Farrell sent her to Queen`s Park at the invitation of the Queen`s Park Press Gallery, who suggested McGuinty needed tweaking about his self imposed five foo...

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY the worst post title I've ever made. Just a shitty bad pun. But I'm tired and working, so there you go. There's very little point of speculating about what will really happen down the road with this Canada Media Fund, because none of the details seem to be worked out. The major ch...

WELL, LET'S DO it this way, then. (Damn you, Freedom! I didn't launch you fast enough!) There'll be more later, but for now, here's your announcement by Heritage Minister James Moore from the Flashpoint set, via Twitter. (@Flashpoint_TV) 310 million over two years 1 minute ago from TwitterBerry Cbc ...

IT'S NOT LIKE Canadian media companies were alone in this -- remember how AOL TIME WARNER was going to do everything cause of "synergy?" Riiight. But U.S. media companies also invested heavily in Content by becoming their own TV studios: FOX now feeds FOX and F/X, NBC Universal, ABC Studios and CBS ...

JOEL RUBINOFF, from Torstar, does a driveby as the lede in an article on Rick Mercer today: Say what you will about the sorry state of Canadian TV, a beleaguered U.S. satellite pumping out generic comedy and drama series that shamelessly mimic the rhythms of American blockbusters: you gotta love Ric...

BACK IN THESE parts, we sometimes joke that having a show on the Citytv stations is sort of like being in the Canadian Television Witness Protection Program. Less Than Kind is a winning comedy that premiered earlier this year. The ads and promo for it were spotty, so don't worry if you haven't heard...

FIRST OF ALL let us say it plain. Geri Hall had a bad day. For those of you who managed to miss it, Hall, one of the current anchor/comedians on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, interrupted a press avail by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty yesterday. She did it in character, as the Single Girl. This is a ch...

FURTHER TO THE below, today's koan-like wisdom comes courtesy of a Toronto writer/producer who has run rooms from Corner Gas to Little Mosque to The Mercer Report. In our culture wars, northern division, there's a very tedious and ongoing fight between the highfalutin "worthy" dramas and the "entert...

STILL BURIED , but I thought I'd stick my head up and post some awards info. Yes, I know, I know, the Oscars, blah blah...didn't even post the screenwriting winners but I didn't watch this year and so am exercising my full prerogative not to care. But I do care about the fact that a very fine young ...

I WISH I could, with a button, cause it to snow. Just because seeing flurries swirl violently out there, obscuring Lake Ontario and the Gardiner expressway, just makes me want to not go anywhere and hunker down and work. Yes, I know that this would terribly inconvenience and add to the daily misery ...