Welcome to the blogroll: Canadian film and TV blogs
Welcome aboard, Tv, Eh?, The Legion of Decency and (belatedly) Dead Things on Sticks. The latter two resonate particularly with yours truly and his box of unproduced (but hilarious) screenplays.Big expansion in CBC podcasts
This just in; Tod Maffin has the details. They’re responding to huge demand: We first introduced podcasts in 2005, and the demand has been growing ever since, with downloads now averaging more than one million per month. CBC Radio 3, Quirks and Quarks and Ideas...A gift to parents everywhere, from SNL
If you’re a parent with kids under, oh, ten or so, then Saturday Night Live has just delivered the vengeance you’ve been waiting for on Dora the Explorer. Animated at a gorgeous three frames an hour, written by stunned gerbils and voiced by telemarketers...Ain’t no breath mint strong enough
If she isn’t there already, Mary Walsh enters the quotation books: He may be a senior federal cabinet minister, but Peter MacKay, who was booed at the East Coast Music Awards gala Sunday in Halifax, says he’s also human. During his speech at the Metro...The CBC’s fresh out of Tommy. How about you?
In the comments to one of my blog posts from the distant past, Dr. Norman Schmidt has asked if anyone has a tape of Prairie Giant: the Tommy Douglas Story: My sister-in-law, a devout CCF/NDP person, born and raised in Saskatchewan has asked me to persue the...
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