Global TV Toronto is campaigning for Federal and Provincial Liberals all in one promo

March 9, 2011 @ 9:34 am 7 COMMENTS

Sometimes I’m forced to watch Global TVs 5:30 news. Sometimes I linger long enough, past the dire Global Warming footage, and “green” energy announcements, to catch the promo for the six o’clock Global Toronto News. You know, the promos where the local figureheads are walking around Toronto, touting about how much they know about what’s going on. What I saw last night had me falling off my chair.

The promo starts. Here we have the two figureheads, Anne Mroczkowski and Leslie Roberts. They are in a gym and an irate guy comes up to them with a bill complaining about how expensive it has gotten. The figureheads reply (paraphrasing):

Oh, yes, the bill has gone up another 8% when the HST was read more

All I know is…

February 12, 2010 @ 6:12 pm 1 COMMENTS

… it better not be David Suzuki.

He is BC’s pride…

Pushing Daisies Cancelled by ABC – Oh Hell No!

November 26, 2008 @ 3:12 pm 4 COMMENTS

The facts are these: this quirky show has been on the air for one year, three months, twenty days, six hours. It has won 3 Emmy’s and it has been nominated for twelve, and ABC found the Neilson ratings too low and cancelled it this week.

In case you don’t know, Pushing Daisies is a comedy unlike any other: it’s new, fresh and quirky. It looks almost cartoonish in production and the humour is great as well. The premise is this: Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. However, Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar “life value” in the read more

Try to Survive That!

April 21, 2007 @ 9:08 am 0 COMMENTS

Next Survivor is to be filmed in China. What, they are going to make all the candidates pactise Falum Gong in public, and then we’ll get to see who will survive? Or maybe they’ll send them grocery shopping and show them the shortcut through Tiananmen Square. How about converting them all to Buddhists and have them visit the Dalai Lama for tea and scones? Surviving in China, that should be fun.