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Banff World Media Festival: Pawn Stars creator Brent Montgomery says the key...
It’s perhaps not surprising that Brent Montgomery’s reality-TV radar is always on, fine-tuned in its search for the weird and wonderful. The wheels were certainly turning on Sunday afternoon when the...
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Banff World Media Festival: Lifetime Achievement winner Christine Baranski...
As with most people who read Vanity Fair, actress Christine Baranski had long considered what responses she might give if asked to fill out the magazine’s famous Proust Questionnaire. The back-page...
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Banff World Media Festival: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on comedy, SNL, Veep and the...
While her success in the medium may suggest otherwise, Julia Louis-Dreyfus acknowledges that good ideas for television “are not easy to pluck from a tree.” Nevertheless, the actress, who was at the...
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Banff World Media Festival: Why Craig Ferguson refuses to play by the...
“My people built this country, I don’t know if you know that,” says late-night host Craig Ferguson Tuesday afternoon, giving that famous sly smile to the throngs packed into the Alhambra Room at the...
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Halloween will survive without school parties
In his National Post article, Tuesday, October 8, Save Halloween! It isn’t school administrators jobs to take all of the fun out of growing up, Jesse Kline is concerned that the fun of Halloween...
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Television: Community creator Dan Harmon to hold master class in Banff
Dan Harmon, creator of the cult comedy show Community, has been added to the impressive list of master class presenters at the Banff World Media Festival. Others confirmed to hold master classes...
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Alan Thicke to receive Canadian Award of Distinction at Banff World Media...
Actor, former talk-show host, songwriter and sitcom dad Alan Thicke will be given the Canadian Award of Distinction this year at the Banff World Media Festival. Thicke, best know for playing Jason...
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Banff World Media Festival: Dan Rather on courage, fear and the state of...
As far as Ratherisms go, it’s perhaps not the most original. Iconic newsman Dan Rather, who was prone to offering colourful analogies during live broadcasts over his lengthy career (i.e. “You would...
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Banff World Media Festival: Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz...
The pieces are coming together for the next chapter of the dysfunctional Bluth family, but Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz said it’s too early to know what shape it will take. At the...
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Banff World Media Festival: 19-2 showrunner Bruce Smith keeps the mean...
For anyone who has watched the gritty cop drama 19-2 unfold this season, Cirque du Soleil is probably not the first comparison that springs to mind. But showrunner Bruce Smith sees some similarities....
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Banff World Media Festival: Banshee an over-the-top crime drama that revels...
Greg Yaitanes may have got his start in mainstream fare – and even won an Emmy for his work directing Fox’s House — but he admits he doesn’t really have any desire to return to network jobs. Certainly...
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Banff World Media Festival: Alan Thicke on fame, fatherhood and longevity
It’s a testament to Alan Thicke’s Canadian niceness that a reporter doesn’t have to feel awkward when broaching the subject of having a son who is more famous than he is. During an interview at the...
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Banff World Media Festival: No truth to casting rumours about second season...
Forget what you’ve read or heard. The creator behind the HBO sensation True Detective told reporters at the Banff World Media Festival that there has been no casting done for the murder thriller for...
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Banff World Media Festival: Nathan Lane on comedy, drama and bringing the...
Nathan Lane has a snarky accordion player and money-flinging wedding party in Greenwich Village to thank for his short-lived career as a standup comedian. The Tony-winning theatre, TV and film actor,...
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Banff World Media Festival: Community creator Dan Harmon talks about the...
There’s good news and bad news for fans of the recently axed NBC cult comedy Community. The good news is that creator Dan Harmon can confirm there has been talk to revive the series on Hulu, the...
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Transparent creator Jill Soloway talks about Season 2, Caitlyn Jenner and...
By now, it has become common knowledge for fans of the critically acclaimed Amazon series Transparent that the premise was inspired by the experiences of Jill Soloway’s 75-year-old father coming out as...
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Local web comedy brings humour to the dental world
Word of mouth is critical for anyone in the arts these days. if you’re a local community theatre, you need that buzz to get around, persuading audiences in that might otherwise be overwhelmed by the...
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Banff World Media Festival: Surprise double-win at CineCoup puts Edmonton,...
It was in those tense few seconds before a winner was announced that CineCoup founder J. Joly suddenly threw a wrench in the mix. Rather than greenlight one of the top five finalists in his innovative...
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Banff World Media Festival: Season 4 of Bates Motel will be 'Norman...
Norman becomes Norman. This, presumably, is not the official tag line for Season 4 of Bates Motel, A&E’s wonderfully creepy thriller about the formative years of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and...
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Lagertha's new journey
Katheryn Winnick gets sent them all the time. Through social media, the Canadian actress receives closeups of the elaborately tattooed body parts of her devoted fans — arms, legs, chests –all covered...
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