Archive for category: TV

330-page handwritten ‘Thirtysomething’ episode guide    (2011.10.11)

Here is what a 330-page handwritten Thirtysomething episode guide looks like

Rick Mercer shaves Adam Kleeberger    (2011.10.07)

Surely homosexualist Rick Mercer will shave off rugger Adam Kleeberger’s beard solely “for charity”

‘Don’t Quit Your Gay Job’    (2011.09.16)

Don’t Quit Your Gay Job has no business being as good as it is. But must the cohosts shill for one of its broadcaster’s few advertisers?

CBC ‘chieftess’ can’t even do Sharia law right    (2011.09.02)

CBC “chieftess” weds Muslim boytoy Zaib Shaikh, but covers her arms at the wedding. Her new husband’s show is still airing on the network whose programming she runs

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting: How to lie with statistics    (2011.07.04)

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting produced a deceptive graph of government funding for the CBC

Ed Bernero: Male-oriented TV shows    (2011.06.27)

TV showrunner Ed Bernero: “Something with real sort of male themes and male strength… the things that appeal to us, the things we compete for. Macho in a different sense – the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn’t really exist”

‘Reality television is the television of television’    (2011.05.23)

Kelefa Sanneh: “Reality television is the television of television”

What happens when you try to interview a former reality-show contestant    (2011.03.08)

Some network apparatchik stops the subject from answering questions

Ken Finkleman: Canada’s most contemptuous man    (2011.03.05)

Canada has a lot to answer for in its endemic tall-poppy syndrome. Still, nobody in Canada is less deserving of fame than Ken Finkleman