[harls]

And risk missing Normand Brathwaite? truly one of the most annoying talentless human being on the face of the earth... PS I had the misfortune of seeing that porker live,I still have nightmares

I can't stand that dude either, or his "Belle & Bum" entourage. His voice is irritating and sounds constipated.

[Rico Rommheim]

I always hated him on the basis of how stupid a title "Belle et Bum" is.

[mr.John]

The antichrist of show business himself, someone get me an aluminum
baseball bat quick

http://www.radio-canada.ca/special/rentree2006/images/albumMusique/ph_01.jpg

[harls]

Ever notice how all of his 'spectacles' (st-jean baptiste, various 'grand rire' appearances, as well as his outrageous amount of f'n TV and radio shows) have to also feature his equally-talented daughter and ex-wife?

[mr.John]

Also notice the CBC logo behind lard ass in the photo, our tax money well spent

[MolsonExport]

The antichrist of show buisness himself, someone get me an aluminum
baseball bat quick

http://www.radio-canada.ca/special/rentree2006/images/albumMusique/ph_01.jpg

source: malek :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

[SpongeG]

I wondered why there were no new bollywood movies lately - we have been expecting a few - they have been playing the same punjabi ones over and over for weeks now

North American theatres hurt by Bollywood dispute


Even as Slumdog Millionaire and its Bollywood-inspired style has made a whole swath of people more aware of Indian cinema, North American theatres specializing in Bollywood films are hurting badly.

A dispute over revenue sharing between Bollywood film producers and the operators of multiplex cinemas within India is now entering its third month and has cut off the flow of new Bollywood pictures. For the small Indian cinemas dotting North America half a world away, this has meant a sudden dearth of major films.

"It has really taken a toll on us," said Farzan Dehmoubed, vice-president of Golden Theatres, a small chain in the Toronto area. This includes the Albion Cinema, which specializes in Bollywood, and the Woodside Cinema, which has had to switch to first-run Hollywood fare.

"It has really been a difficult time, and it has extended a lot longer than everybody had expected. We all thought by June, for sure, this would be resolved. Right around now is the time when some of the biggest movies of the year should be releasing," Mr. Dehmoubed said.

The Raja, Vancouver's Bollywood specialty cinema, announced earlier in May that it would close for half of the month because of the strike in Mumbai. It hopes to reopen in June. The switch by the Woodside Cinema in Toronto to Hollywood films might be permanent if the strike continues, Mr. Dehmoubed said. In New York, the Eagle Theater and its Bollywood films have gone dark for good.

Although these are relatively small cinemas here and there across North America, the theatres are important cultural anchors for large South Asian communities.

"The main reason we've tried to keep the Albion and Woodside open is to make sure there's a constant flow of [South Asian] movies, and somewhere people can go to enjoy their movies," Mr. Dehmoubed said. "Without Albion and Woodside, a lot of these movies wouldn't even release in Toronto. The mainstream theatres do sometimes open to Bollywood movies, but they seem to be only interested in the big, big [Indian] blockbuster movies."

Estimates are that the Mumbai-based industry has lost more than $3.5-billion (U.S.) since April. The problem is that Bollywood producers want to make the massive Indian film industry more financially transparent, as opposed to impressions that business is done behind closed doors and marked by increasingly unreliable investment from private backers. The producers want a system more like the one Hollywood studios share with exhibitors. The producers are seeking half of the box-office take from multiplex cinemas that are geared more to middle-class Indians. The cinema operators are balking.

The timing of the dispute is deliberate. As with Hollywood films, summer is the season for Indian blockbusters. No new films means no major summer releases, such as the highly anticipated New York, featuring Bollywood superstar John Abraham, and Kambakkht Ishq starring Akshay Kumar.

The Albion Cinema has been playing smaller Punjabi and Tamil movies to keep the doors open and maintain its South Asian emphasis. Ticket prices have also been reduced.

"We are just trying to get people back in and come and see the movies we currently have," Mr. Dehmoubed said. "It has really become difficult to keep bringing these movies [here], with the way piracy is going. That's also affecting us heavily. With Bollywood, there's a lot of piracy happening, not just in Canada, but throughout the U.S."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/north-american-theatres-hurt-by-bollywood-dispute/article1161394/

[1ajs]

MOOSE win game 2!!! AHL's version of stanly cup happening

[harls]

http://model.ctv.ca/images/image02.jpg

This guy is fucking annoying.

[MolsonExport]

Ahhhh!!! My Eyes!!!!!

[SpongeG]

Global welcomes Melrose Place, a Good Wife, singing teens to fall lineup

VANCOUVER - Global TV hopes to turn back the clock this fall to the feel-good, happier days of the ’90s with a revived version of Melrose Place, the hit show that — along with Beverly Hills 90210 — defined an era for an entire generation of twenty- and thirtysomething viewers.

Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 anchored a Global lineup that, at the time, dominated the Canadian national TV ratings. The new version of Melrose Place will feature the return of original cast member Laura Leighton as Sydney Andrews. The series picks up with her as the landlady of an elegant Spanish-style apartment block in the trendy Melrose district in Los Angeles. Victoria, B.C. native Shaun Sipos, plays a tenant with a knack for trouble in an ensemble cast that also includes Katie Cassidy (Harper’s Island), Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, and another Melrose alumni, Thomas Calabro, who played Dr. Michael Mancini in the original series.

The new Melrose Place was one of five new series announced Wednesday when Global unveiled its fall schedule to advertisers in Toronto.

Melrose Place will air on Wednesday nights, following the new high-school-oriented musical comedy Glee, a Fame-style ensemble drama about young people who want to become stars. Returning for its second season will be 90210, itself a present-day followup to Beverly Hills, 90210, which moves to Thursdays.

“Melrose Place has all of that wonderful nostalgia that comes with reinventing a show that we grew up with and knew and loved so much,” said Barbara Williams, executive vice-president of content for Canwest Broadcasting. “It’s a drama that holds its own, regardless of the name and the history that comes with it. It’s just a very strong, layered, wild, sexy drama that follows a whole group of young people who are trying to figure their lives out. It’s just a very rich, female-driven drama.”

Global will also introduce a spinoff of the popular procedural drama NCIS called NCIS: Los Angeles, and a new courtroom drama from filmmakers Ridley and Tony Scott called The Good Wife, starring Julianna Margulies as a newly single woman forced back to work at a Chicago law firm after her politician husband is exposed in a sex scandal.

And The Cleveland Show, the oft-delayed spinoff from Family Guy, will bow this fall as part of the network’s Sunday animation block, which includes The Simpsons, American Dad and the returning Family Guy.

NCIS, House, Bones, Heroes, Brothers & Sisters, The Office, Numb3rs, Dollhouse, Lie to Me and a new edition of Survivor — this one set in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa — will all return.

The homegrown, made-in-B.C. action-adventure series The Guard, starring Steve Bacic and Eve Harlow, will return for a third season.

“The Guard is part of a whole Canadian story that is very important to us,” Williams said. “We were happy to bring The Guard back for a third season. It’s been a solid performer for us. It’s a great Canadian drama that we’re very proud of.

“But it’s only part of our Canadian story. The Guard stands out, when you look at our prime time fall schedule at the moment, but there’s a lot more Canadian programming to come onto the schedule over the year.”

Copper, a homegrown ensemble drama about five first-year police officers, has been picked up by ABC in the U.S.

“We’re looking forward to bringing Copper to the schedule once ABC does, probably in the midseason,” Williams said.

Production on Copper begins this month in Toronto.

The animated comedy Bob and Doug, based on the further adventures of SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, will return in midseason.

astrachan@canwest.com

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Global+welcomes+Melrose+Place+Good+Wife+singing+teens+fall+lineup/1659351/story.html

[mr.John]

Ha ha Harls love your new avatar "He once had a awkward moment just to see how it feels" by the way that commercial is narrated by the great Will lyman ( the best in the business)

[LotusLand]

"If he disagrees with you it's because you are wrong" :haha:

Stay thirsty my friends :tup:

[vid]

http://model.ctv.ca/images/image02.jpg

What the fuck?

[Rico Rommheim]

p2SSZA0CjdQ


Why do foreign beers always have kick ass ads, while local (including the US) always suck ass?

[MolsonExport]

^I like the ad where Mr. Most Interesting Man bench-presses the two hawt Japanese flight attendants.

[harls]

What the fuck?


Exactly.

[MrOilers]

Why do foreign beers always have kick ass ads, while local (including the US) always suck ass?

I always blamed the fact that we can't show topless women on regular TV here in N. America.

[Rathgrith]

^Sure, but most of those ads for swell domestic beer is essentially a softcore p0rn movie without the kissing.

[kirjtc2]

Here's a question: is the Weather Network local forecast theme the most heard piece of music in the country?

[Acajack]

I always blamed the fact that we can't show topless women on regular TV here in N. America.

Ahem, I beg to differ.

Acajack from Québec

[SpongeG]

CBC shows some too at least they don't edit out the european movies either

[LotusLand]

While we are on the topic of topless women in N. America whatever happen to the soft porn on City TV on Friday Nights!?!?!? And yes CBC shows tits :tup:

[MTLskyline]

Ahem, I beg to differ.

Acajack from Québec

LOL, you talking about Bleu Nuit?

[SpongeG]

While we are on the topic of topless women in N. America whatever happen to the soft porn on City TV on Friday Nights!?!?!? And yes CBC shows tits :tup:

doesn't Rogers own City TV now? maybe they are prudes? or it interferes with their own porn to view services?

[Acajack]

LOL, you talking about Bleu Nuit?

Nope, mainstream Quebec TV networks, in prime time.

Living in Montreal, you should know that.

[Acajack]

doesn't Rogers own City TV now? maybe they are prudes? or it interferes with their own porn to view services?

Not sure about soft core porn, but City TV does show most of its Hollywood movies uncut (with swearing, nudity and violence) starting at 9 pm.

[mr.John]

Stupid commercial part 99967, the four losers who go around sticking posters of themselves all around the city. This apparently allows these 4 jackasses to get into a hip club and score with some hot chicks (hey it could happen in a drug induced hallucination)

[SpongeG]

the four guys!

[habfanman]

Nope, mainstream Quebec TV networks, in prime time.

Living in Montreal, you should know that.

lol at Bleu Nuit! TVA also has that show where they interview the 'artistes' and give you a behind the scenes look at the 'adult entertainment' industry.

I was watching the 6 o'clock news on Radio Canada one night and they were doing a piece on a dance company's new show. The interview took place at rehearsal where half of the dancers were naked and this one guy kept running by the camera with his schlong flopping to an fro. It occurred to me that this was something that would never happen anywhere else in North America.

[habfanman]

There's a really annoying commercial for some talent contest thingy where a teenage girl screams repeatedly into the phone. Every time you think you've heard the last scream, she hits you up with another and another and another...

[McMahon]

Stupid commercial part 99967, the four losers who go around sticking posters of themselves all around the city. This apparently allows these 4 jackasses to get into a hip club and score with some hot chicks (hey it could happen in a drug induced hallucination)

Actually, to be honest, the Captain Morgan's ads are the only interesting and clever ads on TV that aren't imported from Europe.

[Acajack]

lol at Bleu Nuit! TVA also has that show where they interview the 'artistes' and give you a behind the scenes look at the 'adult entertainment' industry.

I was watching the 6 o'clock news on Radio Canada one night and they were doing a piece on a dance company's new show. The interview took place at rehearsal where half of the dancers were naked and this one guy kept running by the camera with his schlong flopping to an fro. It occurred to me that this was something that would never happen anywhere else in North America.

This reminds me of how a few years ago, when the movie Titanic premiered on network television in North America (can't remember the U.S. network but CTV simulcast it in Canada), as the divers opened the safe at the start of the movie, the breasts (little more than a kiddie-style drawing of "boobies": circles with dots in the middle) on the time-worn, yellowed sketch of a topless Kate Winslet were blurred out by the censors!

[isaidso]

http://model.ctv.ca/images/image02.jpg

This guy is fucking annoying.

He's what you call a 'poodle'. You know he's gonna stink of fragrances. Where's the A/C?

[MolsonExport]

http://model.ctv.ca/images/image02.jpghttp://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20070518/ben_570x250.jpg
http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20070518/ben_570x250.jpghttp://model.ctv.ca/images/image02.jpg
source: CTV images

Which one drives you more up the wall? Is Canada big enough to host two annoyances of that caliber?

That "America's/Canada's Next Top model" guy looks like a miniwheat with that frosting haircut.
Ben Mulroney just looks like a Bowel Movement.

[Rathgrith]

My eyes! They burn!

P.S. Was isn't the recession forcing them into manual labour, working the streets, or something?

[Ayreonaut]

Wait, who is this Dragonball Z guy? I've never seen/heard of him before.

[harls]

Wait, who is this Dragonball Z guy? I've never seen/heard of him before.

You are lucky, because once you hear him talk you will want to ram his head into drywall.. and once he starts sobbing and flailing with his headless torso, you'll want to spray him with armor-all tire cleaner and light him on fire.

[Bigtime]

Made by some guys in Toronto:

l--BvXpaGq4

[mr.John]

You are lucky, because once you hear him talk you will want to ram his head into drywall.. and once he starts sobbing and flailing with his headless torso, you'll want to spray him with armor-all tire cleaner and light him on fire.

Almost sounds like an ancient Gypsy curse, or a threat by an Italian mobster

[kool maudit]

learning french ruined bleu nuit forever. as a young guy in halifax, i didn't know what they were saying, so at every second i was like "ok, they're getting into the car -- probably to go fuck... ok, she's on the staircase -- he's going to fuck her there..."

now i know when ain't nothing going to happen (because it is just some lame greta scacchi movie from 1971 anyway).

[Acajack]

learning french ruined bleu nuit forever. as a young guy in halifax, i didn't know what they were saying, so at every second i was like "ok, they're getting into the car -- probably to go fuck... ok, she's on the staircase -- he's going to fuck her there..."

now i know when ain't nothing going to happen (because it is just some lame greta scacchi movie from 1971 anyway).


Hmm, watch what you're saying: Greta Scacchi would have been around 10 years old in 1971! Perhaps you are thinking of Sylvia Kristel...

[MolsonExport]

http://www.radio-canada.ca/special/rentree2006/images/albumMusique/ph_01.jpghttp://www.telequebec.tv/images/contenus/personnalites/320x180/6.jpg
^radio-canada and telequebec, respectively

Normand Brathwaite

Do they still have those damned radio station ads for CKOI-fm and Rhythme-fm (the ones featuring photos of the radio personalities) plastering the Montreal metro?

[kool maudit]

Hmm, watch what you're saying: Greta Scacchi would have been around 10 years old in 1971! Perhaps you are thinking of Sylvia Kristel...

i don't know why that name inaccurately stuck in my mind.

[Acajack]

i don't know why that name inaccurately stuck in my mind.

Well, she did play an insatiable vixen-type character as the lover of the psycho-turbo violonist in Le Violon Rouge...

[kool maudit]

http://www.radio-canada.ca/special/rentree2006/images/albumMusique/ph_01.jpg


he is as if your big toe had two pleading, attention-craving eyes.

[harls]

I have come to the conclusion that McCain makes the lamest commercials of them all... like that one with the inuit dude and french pastry chef bantering back and forth with 'mmm' and 'brr' as some dead-eyed woman scarfs down one of their chemical cakes (aka deep and delicious).

plus the most recent episode of 'it's not delivery, it's delissio' with the goth fuck who turns into a bat after coming into contact with garlic pizza.

[kirjtc2]

I have come to the conclusion that McCain makes the lamest commercials of them all...

You *just* came to that conclusion? Their ads were just as lame 20 years ago.

[harls]

It was a close call between them and Tim Horton's.. Tim's has some spectacularly annoying ads too.

Canadian tire would have won if they had kept that couple.

[MolsonExport]

It's not delivery, It's disgustisso.

[SteelTown]

Channel Zero buying Hamilton's CHCH

Canadian Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/592121

Canwest Global Communications Corp. says Hamilton television station CHCH-TV and Montreal station CJNT-TV will be sold to an affiliate of Channel Zero Inc., subject to approval by the federal regulator and other conditions.

Channel Zero has agreed to offer employment to all current employees of the two stations, subject to the negotiation of a one-year collective agreement with unionized employees at CHCH.

[SpongeG]

bumpits

i wish i knew a way to capitalize on teenage girls appetite for riduclous trends like bumpits has

[Rico Rommheim]

This may amuse some here so i'll go ahead...


A few nights ago I bumped into Normand Braithwaite ( I work the backstage parkinglot at the st-denis theatre) after his fist just for laughs show. The man was drunk, clearly and was hanging out with friends and family. The man approached me and started talking to me about drivel really. I had just seen his giant face plastered a million times in the subway and had read an article on him in the paper an hour before so naturally I was shocked. When he finally stopped droning on about how bad his show was (no, really) there was an awkward silence so I hesitantly said "Its the first time I meet a star" and he laughed and corrected me by saying "I'm only small star". Later his agent came up to me and started yaking about braithwaite, I had NOTHING to add so in an admittedly reprehensible move I asked if I could get tickets for his next show. She was more than happy, inviting me for any amount of tickets I wanted and we exchanged phone numbers. She called me 3 times since and I never picked up, The end. By the way, the man was tiny! He must be 5'2 or something!

http://www.radio-canada.ca/special/rentree2006/images/albumMusique/ph_01.jpg

[harls]

How about this family of dunderheads that go out for supper only to be miraculously duped into believing that they've been taken back to thier house (why this restaurant smells just like our shitshack) ... It's Pasta from Pizza Hut! Give me a break...

[vid]

It's the authentically Italian bacon mac and cheese! An ancient family recipe from Sicily, where bacon and cheddar are commonplace!

[mr.John]

You want to torture an Italian ? force him or her to eat mac and cheese .To all non-Italians out there...don't put bloody sugar in your pasta sauce, sugar is only used to mask the taste of bitter tomatoes (buy decent tomatoes and you won't have that problem)

[Proof Sheet]

How about this family of dunderheads that go out for supper only to be miraculously duped into believing that they've been taken back to thier house (why this restaurant smells just like our shitshack) ... It's Pasta from Pizza Hut! Give me a break...

Exactly what I thought...wouldn't you realize you were sitting in your own chairs in your own kitchen with your homes unique smell and not Pizza Hut?

[SpongeG]

but they are blindfolded

[HomeInMyShoes]

^And getting paid lots of money to act like idiots. I'm pretty sure I'd do the same thing for $50.

"Listen... do you smell something?"

[harls]

The daughter in that commercial looks like she was actually not aware she was in her own house. Either she is an excellent actress, or a gullible twit. I'll go with the latter.

Speaking of fine dining, now there's this commercial for 'premium' chicken from Wendy's. Nice try. How premium is it when it comes in a plastic tray and is served by some slovenly, greasy teen? oh-la-la, I feel like I'm in a fancy restaurant with this fluorescent lighting.. the homeless dude in the corner drinking his bottomless coffee adds to the atmosphere so much..

[mr.John]

Fancy feast restaurant inspired cat food....god almighty there's some seriously stupid people out there

[vid]

But Mr. Princess simply insists on veal.

[harls]

Fancy feast restaurant inspired cat food....god almighty there's some seriously stupid people out there

I should start buying cat food instead of Chef Boyardee.. sounds like a better deal (and probably better for you).

[kirjtc2]

Canwest is shutting down its Victoria and Red Deer stations:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/07/22/canwest-stations-closed.html

You've gotta be real incompetent to run two heritage TV stations into the ground....

[mr.John]

Just saw a commercial for Canadian tire life insurance, yup the same outfit that can't even do an oil change properly is now selling life insurance.

[SteelTown]

Canwest is shutting down its Victoria and Red Deer stations:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/07/22/canwest-stations-closed.html

You've gotta be real incompetent to run two heritage TV stations into the ground....

Well they ran E! Entertainment format for over two years on CH. As if Victoria, Red Deer, Hamilton and Montreal will be intertested in all Entertainment news and non-stop "True Hollywood Story" (11am until 6pm on Saturday).

[harls]

Just saw a commercial for Canadian tire life insurance, yup the same outfit that can't even do an oil change properly is now selling life insurance.

It must pay out in Canadian Tire money.

[SpongeG]

haha

[HomeInMyShoes]

It must pay out in Canadian Tire money.

lol. The payout on a $50,000 policy in Canadian Tire money would be, what, $500? Woohoo, new snow tires for the widow.

[mr.John]

Someone help me out here, I'm sure everyone has seen those commercials for Philadelphia cream cheese... the ones with that bossy bitch and her so-called man servant Albert,now I know she's supposed to be in heaven ,but what about poor Albert is he in heaven or hell?

[theman23]

Hes an angel. It really isn't that difficult a commercial to follow.

[MolsonExport]

It must pay out in Canadian Tire money.

yep, just like Blah-lobs, they try to get it all.

[MolsonExport]

How about this family of dunderheads that go out for supper only to be miraculously duped into believing that they've been taken back to thier house (why this restaurant smells just like our shitshack) ... It's Pasta from Pizza Hut! Give me a break...

could be worse. could be this:

http://headlinerdiners.com/images/HogansPastamania.jpg
hoganspastamania.com

[SteelTown]

CHCH-TV union votes to support new ownership
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2009/31/c2093.html

HAMILTON, ON, July 31 /CNW Telbec/ - CEP Local 1100 members working at CHCH-TV in Hamilton have voted to support the conditional sales transaction between Channel Zero Inc. and Canwest-Global Communications Limited announced June 30th, but the union has grieved Canwest-Global's plans to wind up the present pension plan.

As a condition of sale present pension and health benefits will not follow employees to Channel Zero. The new owner has committed to replace employee benefits with their own plans, and all other provisions of the Collective Agreement remain unchanged. The agreement between CEP and Canwest-Global means Channel Zero will not have to renegotiate the Collective Agreement for one year.

Canwest-Global had threatened to close the television station if its deal with Channel Zero did not go through. That would have put 120 employees out of work.

"We are happy that our members will continue to work and provide a valuable service to Hamilton," said Bob Huget, Ontario Vice-President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. Huget adds, "We think Channel Zero's commitment to local news and local programming is the right strategy and we trust this transaction will benefit; employees, the company and the community."

According to regulatory filings, the pension plan had a surplus at the end of 2006 and now has a significant shortfall. CEP says that federal regulators allowed Canwest-Global to take contribution holidays for years while employees continued to fund the plan.

"It is unfair to leave employees and retirees holding the bag," says Huget, "we believe it is Canwest-Global's obligation to fund the shortfall."

The prospective owner of CHCH-TV and Montreal's CJNT-TV, also part of the sale, still requires CRTC approval. Canada's broadcast regulator will consider Channel Zero's application on August 24th. Following CRTC approval Canwest and Channel Zero will have until November 10, 2009 to close the deal.

[harls]

http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1679299

CBC ADDS GHOST WHISPERER TO AFTERNOON LINEUP, EXPANDS NEWS PROGRAMMING

Posted By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Posted 8 days ago

CBC-TV is adding reruns of the Jennifer Love Hewitt drama Ghost Whisperer to its weekday lineup as the new lead-in to a longer supper-hour newscast.

The U. S. series -- about a woman who can see and communicate with the dead -- replaces Fashion File and reruns of The Simpsons. CBC had scrapped both shows earlier this year.

Starting Aug. 31, the series will lead in to an earlier, 90-minute newscast, starting at 5 p. m. local time and extended from the current 60-minute newscast.

The afternoon shake-up also puts Coronation Street up half-an-hour to 6:30 p. m., and puts Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy back to back from 7-8 p. m. across the country. The changes come as the public broadcaster overhauls its news division while grappling with a $171-million budget shortfall.

I didn't think there'd be enough episodes of Boobs whisperer to fill a daily M-F time slot.. plus a 90 minute newscast? I don't know about your town, but our local news hour is already stretched pretty thin as it is.

[vid]

Local news here is an hour long but they only devote about 15 to 20 minutes to actual local news, they leave things out a lot. The thing I'm more worried about is how it is going to change the schedules for independent affiliates. For a few weeks I've watched Wheel of Fortune then the first 15 minutes of news, what is going to happen now that they've moved it? It's probably going to be like when CHFD was airing Global News a few years ago, we'll get the first part of the news and then it will be cut off by local news in the middle of something.

And why Ghost Whisperer? There are hundreds of better American shows out there. Why not something from the UK? There are 85 episodes, that's 17 weeks. It's going to be like Arrested Development, they're probably going to air the entire series over and over again for a year or so then start airing something else.

BTW, whenever a guy is on Wheel of Fortune with his "best friend" and that friend is a guy -- gay.

[SpongeG]

CHEK TV from Victoria is getting shut down by GLobal August 31st - but the employees are apparently hoping to buy the station and make it a community based TV station - its been serving Victoria for 53 years!

currently its one of those awful E! branded weird channels

[manny_santos]

Local news here is an hour long but they only devote about 15 to 20 minutes to actual local news, they leave things out a lot. The thing I'm more worried about is how it is going to change the schedules for independent affiliates.

The independent affiliates can do whatever they want, as long as they air a certain minimum number of hours of CBC programming. A station like CKPR might simply air some other show at 5:30, such as The Simpsons or a local magazine show, and then keep its regualar news at 6. CKWS in Kingston and CHEX in Peterborough have their own local show at 5:30 already. In all cases these stations could simply just air Coronation Street at 5:00 instead of 6:30 like the network O&Os.

[Rico Rommheim]

Local news here is an hour long but they only devote about 15 to 20 minutes to actual local news, they leave things out a lot. The thing I'm more worried about is how it is going to change the schedules for independent affiliates.

with all due respect vid, 15-20 minutes to cover the news in a islotaed region of less than 200,000 seems ample. Hell, there ain't much to say in 20 min even in the montreal news. Most of it is sports, national news, weather and international news.

[vid]

They just cover the city. Regional news on weekends is a half hour, and it doesn't cover much city stuff.

[MolsonExport]

e! exasperated! eMulroney! eKim! eTalk! eek!

I hate this creeping e! bullshit.

ditto for radio stations called "Bob" (wtf?)..."80s, 90s, and whatever!" har de har har.

[SteelTown]

That human cat, Hubert, is super annoying and so friggin G-A-Y!

[harls]

How about that Special K ad with the woman trying to do up her jeans, while her friend sits on the couch and tells no one in particular, "I can't stand to see my friend like this".. so naturally she suggests to starve herself by eating nothing but special K until she can put them on once more.

Once she's fit into them again, she can continue to gorge on ice cream and chocolate, until, like a life raft, the fat will explode from the tightly packed pants.

[mr.John]

That human cat, Hubert, is super annoying and so friggin G-A-Y!

Someone should have that gay cat neutered

[SteelTown]

"I'm talking serious protein here".....right wonder where you get your protein from.

[MolsonExport]

Probiotics. Molecules orbiting your waistline. Like Oatbran, a load of utter BS (there are several lawsuits pending), but it sells yogurt by the millions.

[harls]

Big balls of sunshine stuck to your gut. All bran, new me. I like to show the world that I can take a poop.

[Rico Rommheim]

Ghost whisperer? Are these people out of their fucking minds?


Ghost whisperer?

[harls]

What the hell?

[MolsonExport]

why did I look at that post?

[harls]

Rico must be drunk. (Sorry, man.)

No poopy posts, sir. The po-po has arrived.

[vid]

What has been seen... cannot be unseen. :(

[Rico Rommheim]

What? How dare you! No affection for my art here I see. This is a crucifixion. You can't do this, it was all vid's fault! I'm Rico Rommheim, I was posting text here before all of you was nothin'!

[harls]

No scat, man. Scibbity-dop-doo-wop.

[Rico Rommheim]

Save it. I know your game buster. You and your compadres 'vbeen planning this hustle for a while you now have. Its an attempt to squash my rugged, masculine sexual charm. Its to silence me, me to squeal me out. You feel threaten by my manly attributes. I know your score buddy, don't let me catch you with your radio too high.

[MolsonExport]

Ruby. Kenny Rogers. fuckin Gold. well, maybe after a beer or nineteen.

whaddya think, thunderpants? :D

[harls]

^ The Legendary Kenny Rogers is headlining the Hot-air balloon festival in Gatineau Labour Day weekend.

http://www.montgolfieresgatineau.com/anglais/comm_presse/Kenny_e.pdf

Legendary. I love that description.

[circle33]

http://www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com/gallery01.html

[MolsonExport]

^:haha:

[mr.John]

Just saw a promo for a show called defying gravity, holy mother of god does that series look bad, I could be wrong but anything that crappy and low budget has to be produced in Canada