Radiowiz wrote:

Meanwhile Johnny Reardon, Hudson, of Hudson and Rex also has a form of Cancer, but the show goes on anyway... https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/johnny-reardon-hallmark-tonsil-cancer-1236259753/
 

Our household does watch Hudson and Rex. It is a comfortable show with a feel-good component. I am impressed how the writers have been able to rework their scripts with the unexpected absence of the lead (well the human lead) actor. Reardon was present at the start of the season, so his  illness would have caught them unawares. Obviously they were able to move a costar into the main story lines, but that would have left them scrambling to build new secondary themes. Reardon’s social media post in December leads one to assume he will not reappear in this season’s episodes, so it will be interesting to see if his character continues as a voice-only presence or gets written out entirely for this season.
 

Will they get the same calibre of guests if they have to drive out of the core? Of perhaps tag along to the TV interviews?

And just before that was “Do Not Adjust Your Set”, an ostensibly children’s TV show that included anarchistic or chaotic sketches often without ends. Featuring Pythons Idle, Jones and Palin, it also had future big actor such as David Jason and Denise Coffee (Shaw Festival Director under Christopher Newton’s management). Music was from the Bonzo Dog Band which included Neil Innes who later helped form Grimms which included Mike McCartney (the other McCartney brother)
 

I can imagine fewer live in-studio guests and contributors if they have to drive to Scarborough. Probably more impact to TV than radio, where many contributors already use a high-end remote sdet-up.

Does anyone still go direct from mike to air in analogue? I was looking at some older CDs and noticed the ADD, DAD and AAD labeling to show buyers where pure analog still existed. And don’t forget that some albums proclaimed that no synthesizers were used to make the music. Queen were going up against Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream.

Canned Heat shows over 50 credited band members on Wikipedia. Not bad for a 4 or 5 piece band. And Steppenwolf had up to 4 bands touring under with the same name.

"For our Canadian community this means: 
=12pxPeople in Canada will no longer be able to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram, including news articles and audio-visual content posted by news outlets."

I have now experienced this first hand. I posted a link to a news article that is now "no longer viewable". I can sympathise with big media if facebook is perceived as "stealing" content. However fair attribution of the originator could be seen as a free ad for the big media company. Much more pernicious are the piggy back news sites that blatantly lift copy and surround it with their ads. However these tend to pick from US news outlets. One in particular is DNYUZ which plagiarises from everyone, including the NYT which I actually subscribe to. 
 

Highly knowlegeable commentators, many ex-drivers. Also, the TV director focussed a few shots on lazing/grazing beavers during the forced delay to practice this Friday! 

I actually attended one of their shows in the early 70s. My recollection was that it was comparable to other all-male groups who performed in the same time period. They did a significantly longer set than The Troggs, who only managed 55 minutes plus one encore. I did note, that apart from the band, the surrounding company was solely male. They had quite a following in the UK.

What is the legal position when ads that are prohibited in Canada "leak" across the border? i am sure the drug companies factor in the Canadian benefit when placing US ads.

I remember using fibre? needles on elderly wind-up gramophones. You could try a cactus needle. Visit your local hot house with a sample steel needle and you might get an interested employee to "pluck" some samples! Does U of T have a botanical section?

There were a few albums in the UK that drove the adoption of the CD player as opposed to LP reissues on CD. The one that convinced me to invest was Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits. I also remember a BBC program called Pot Black that used Snooker to show off  (and drive the adoption of) the newly introduced colour TV.

Lots of audio dropout/and video stutter. Also no access to previously recorded shows via Ignite. 

News is by its very name NEW. There are plenty of alternative adjectives if only the news writer has permission to discriminate. BREAKING NEWS can be used when details are sparse and are still arriving during the news broadcast. Other word choices include: THIS JUST IN (which I personally hate), ONGOING COVERAGE...., LATEST FROM THE SCENE...,Variety never hurts.

Thanks for the info. I have been waiting to catch the UK version after seeing a positive review. I am intrigued by the variations in success rates when the US remakes a foreign show. There were some dismal failures but also quite a few successes. The writing needs to relocate the comedy characters and situations to relatable North America situations and stereotypes. Good examples are All In the Family, Sanford and Son, Maud, and, of course, The Office. A dire failure was Coupling. As far as non-sitcoms, Canada has had reasonable success with the Great Canadian Baking Show, when I believe the US version failed to catch fire. And unfortunately the Canadian Great Talent (CGT) is a pale shadow of both the UK and US versions. Possibly due to the low budget production and pandemic restrictions at time of recording.