"Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor...
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Actor Kelsey Grammer is recovering in a hospital in Hawaii after suffering a heart attack over the weekend."Kelsey Grammer, best known from his long-running sitcom "Frasier," suffered a mild heart attack during the...
Here's a blog entry that asks whether the TV sitcom is going the way of the Dodo bird.I'd argue that a more alternative brand of TV has entered a golden age the past five years or so. Successful HBO series like Six...
The rumours about a new Seinfeldian sitcom never gained much momentum as far as I can tell, but anyway here you go."Sorry,
Seinfeld fans.
NBC and Jerry Seinfeld shot down a New York Post report Friday that...
Where Salma Hayek did wonders for bringing the loveable Spanish-language comedy 'Ugly Betty' to American audiences, J.T. is now going to try and bring his star power (and love of Peruvian comedy?) to a show...
The second series of the ultraviolent comedy Suburban Shootout aired in the UK on five on Thursday 6 September at 10pm. We've created a fan site where we're tracking reactions from across the blogosphere, posting...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWow, this will be the must read Book of the year, full of mystery and suspense on a forgotten star of TV. Valerie's claim to fame will go down in History as the wife...
John Inman, British television comedian and star of Are You Being Served?, has died.Like many good Canadian kids, I was raised on a steady diet of CBC and BBC productions (the latter of which were broadcast on the...
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"Whole Hog Homophobia
Given the rampant homophobia motoring through Touchstone/Disney’s latest comedy, “Wild Hogs,” it seems fitting that screenwriter Brad Copeland’s credits include writing for TV’s...
Perhaps one of the coolest things about the online television revolution is the simple fact anyone can get in on it. From hacks to actual diamonds in the rough, the Net is a playground for amateur filmmakers looking...
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Where is Hollywood looking for new talent? Online
If you're undiscovered but Web savvy, the new school of the streaming video revolution may be your big break
By MELANIE McFARLAND
P-I TELEVISION CRITIC
For all of its...
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"As I predicted once you lost the audience outside of GTA.... the ratings for Little Mosque on the Prairie have dropped from 2.1 million viewers for the first episosde down to 1.2 million for episode 2."
"Well I watched the much hyped new CBC 'comedy' Little Mosque on the Prairie, a pale imitation of CTV's very successful Corner Gas. Amatuer, banal, boring, snorefest, are terms that come to mind. That and it seriously needed a laugh track so we can follow...
"More than two million Canadians tuned in this week to "Little Mosque on the Prairie," the new CBC comedy about a Muslim community in a rural town that has been the subject of worldwide attention.
The figure - 2.1 million - is a huge one for a Canadian television show....
35th Street Mission, the new Indie Sitcom from Seattle, is now available for free download via the official 35th Street Mission website, www.35sm.com.
"This is an exciting time for the 35th Street Mission series,"...
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