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Sun News finally gets it

05/29/2014 By the editor Leave a Comment

A BoB Short: It took half a week for Sun News to pick up on the joke, but the right-wing news network has finally managed to have comedian Scott Vrooman’s blatantly tongue-in-cheek interview with correspondent Adrienne Batra pulled from the Internet. Or not. According to Vrooman, who honed his hyper-conservative alter-ego on CBC’s This Hour […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, comedy, internet, Sun News Network, television, youtube

The Video: Rob Ford on Jimmy Kimmel

03/04/2014 By the editor Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, a Canadian lad with stars in his eyes, whose name was Rob Ford, went to Hollywood. He wanted to see the movie people up close — the ones who walked the red carpets, the ones who went on talk shows. He wanted to be, as the Little Mermaid sang in his […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: celebrity, Hollywood, Rob Ford, television, Toronto

Jimmy Kimmel Live, Rob Ford suckered

03/04/2014 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon Well he went down to Los Angeles where he was given the celebrity treatment by Jimmy Kimmel. It all went to his head like a hit from a crack pipe. Until he left Tinseltown tonight, feeling like a sucker. Mayor Rob Ford spent the weekend in Hollywood singing Jimmy Kimmel’s praises. He left […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: celebrity, Hollywood, Rob Ford, television, Toronto

Buddy’s back and the Kids never really left

02/21/2014 By the editor 3 Comments

By TJ Dawe “The Colbert Report”‘s decision to send Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole character to Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics was perfect, not only because it’s been great to have Buddy back — on Wednesday night he almost got arrested while “protesting” that he couldn’t get a drink — but because it reminds us […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, comedy, Kids in the Hall, Olympics, Scott Thompson, Sochi, Sochi Olympics, television

Hart Hanson makes his Bones

02/18/2014 By the editor 1 Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If art can be entertaining, can entertainment be art? Hart Hanson, creator and showrunner of the Fox television series Bones, visited the University of British Columbia recently to discuss his experiences as a nice Canadian boy working in the rough-and-tumble of Hollywood for the past decade. In the course of offering advice […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, entertainment, Hollywood, television, writing

Will CBC finally lose its Don Cherry?

12/02/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It’s not a good news hockey story. It’s a huge blow to the CBC: “For years, HNIC has been a cash cow that helped float many of CBC’s other news and original programming endeavours, with some estimating it was worth $200 million, and up to half of the TV network’s advertising revenue.” […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, Conservatives, Don Cherry, hockey, Kevin O'Leary, PMO, sports, Stephen Harper, television

The Video: Rob Ford: The late night talk show round-up

11/16/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: comedy, David Letterman, Rob Ford, television, The Daily Show

Broken Big

09/29/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young So on Friday I got to interview the man who created the man who knocks. The interview with Vince Gilligan, creator and show runner of Breaking Bad, ended at about 2:40 pm. I raced out of Vancouver’s Sutton Place Hotel to find a place to transcribe it and write my story for […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: television, Vancouver, writing

Cory Monteith: The boy next door

07/16/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young The only time I saw Cory Monteith in person was at a Canucks Game. He and his on-screen and off-screen love interest Lea Michele were in their Canucks jerseys at GM Place cheering on the home team at game one of this year’s playoff debacle against the San Jose Sharks. Their smiling […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Canada, celebrity, entertainment, television, Vancouver

The Indiegogo fix

04/15/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten One of the biggest stories in the entertainment world in the last month has been the unstoppable support given to the long-ago cancelled television series “Veronica Mars.“ Fans have rallied behind show creator Rob Thomas, not just with enthusiasm, but with dollars to make a feature film version happen. Thomas’s Veronica Mars […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: film, finance, internet, money, television

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