TV, eh? podcast episode 13: The Tudors and Todd

Episode 13: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed 

There's not one but TWO interviews in this podcast ... one with Torrance Coombs of The Tudors (Wednesdays on CBC), Endgame and JPod, and another with co-creators Craig David Wallace and Charles Picco of Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (premiering September 29 on Space).

Anthony and I also talk about premiere week - the hits and misses, American and Canadian style - and the latest Canadian shows premiering soon or in production now. Check out TV, eh? for all the news.

I also point people to Kate Taylor's excellent Atkinson Series on Canadian culture in the digital age, in the Toronto Star. Go read it. All. Now.

Your hosts

• Anthony Marco can be found at Dyscultured and lovehatethings, and on Twitter here and here.
• Diane Wild can be found here at TV, eh? and here on my personal blog, and on Twitter here and here.

TV, eh? podcast episode 12: Dragon's Claws to the Max

Episode 12: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

If Anthony is right and you people like a cranky Diane, you’re going to LOVE this podcast. I’d just been stood up by a Dragon and you’ll hear me roar about that.

We have two interviews, though, and I was perfectly nice to our guests. (It helps that they were prerecorded.) First up is Max Morrow, the star of Family Channel’s new Connor Undercover and a music aficionado. The show airs Fridays.

Our other guest is Sheri Elwood, creator of Call Me Fitz – one of my favourite Canadian shows ever, which airs Sundays on HBO Canada.

Mixed in there, Anthony and I chat about the new fall season (yes, including US shows), our thoughts on Lost Girl and Call Me Fitz, and the Murdoch Mysteries sale to China.

Your hosts

• Anthony Marco can be found at Dyscultured and lovehatethings, and on Twitter here and here.
• Diane Wild can be found here at TV, eh? and here on my personal blog, and on Twitter here and here.

TV, eh? podcast episode 11: Call Me Anytime, Fitz

 Episode 11: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

I do not have a crush on Jason Priestley. I do, however, have a giant crush on his upcoming show Call Me Fitz. I interviewed him about his days as a teen idol, playing the anti-Brandon Walsh, and about what I'm calling one of my favourite Canadian shows of all time. Yes, before it's aired.

Anthony rants a bit on Bell buying CTV and the use of tax money and incentives to fund Canadian TV - though his objections aren't for the usual reasons. 

I force Anthony to discuss the recently announced Battle of the Blades casting and we mention Rookie Blue's ratings success - it's the most watched new Canadian series in two decades.

Your hosts

• Anthony Marco can be found at Dyscultured and lovehatethings, and on Twitter here and here.
• Diane Wild can be found here at TV, eh? and here on my personal blog, and on Twitter here and here.

TV, eh? podcast episode 10: Waking in a Bad Gemini Dream

Episode 10: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

Anna Silk, the “sexy succubus” of Lost Girl, is this week's special guest, talking about her new Showcase series and her return appearance on the upcoming season three of CBC's Being Erica.

Anthony and I are exhausted just looking at the list of Gemini nominees (there are eleventy billion, as the wise Bill Brioux says) and I'm exasperated by the demonstration, yet again, of how little the Canadian TV industry thinks about their audience. (I was wrong in that nominees who are voting members of the Academy get one free ticket to the gala.)

Shattered's premiere ratings were better than I expected and worse than I hoped. Translation: they were pretty bad.

Before I call Anthony a jerk, we close the show with our favourite 10 Canadian shows, in honour of the Geminis inviting Canadians to vote on their faves of the last 25 years, and Toronto Life compiling their own top 10.

Spoiler alert!

Anthony's Top 10
(in no particular order except the first 2)

• Hockey Night in Canada
• SCTV
• Slings and Arrows
• Kids in the Hall
• King of Kensington
• Hilarious House of Frightenstein
• The Friendly Giant
• Hammy Hamster
• The New Music
• The Red Fisher Show

Diane's Top 10
(in no particular order except the first 1)

• Slings and Arrows
• Intelligence
• The Newsroom
• Durham County
• Twitch City
• Call Me Fitz (yeah, I know, pre-air – call me crazy)
• Anne of Green Gables
• Made in Canada
• Rick Mercer Report
• Some years of This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Your hosts

• Anthony Marco can be found at Dyscultured and lovehatethings, and on Twitter here and here.
• Diane Wild can be found here at TV, eh? and here, and on Twitter here and here.