Although Matthew Perry was American by birth he spent much of his formative years in Ottawa. His mother was press secretary to Pierre Trudeau, and she married Keith Morrison after divorcing Matthew’s father. Matthew went to the same elementary school as Justin Trudeau as well; he was a couple years older than Justin but they likely knew each other.

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Steve Paikin did a nice interview with his younger brother Jeff who became a pal of Matthew years ago in Los Angeles. Some interesting stories.

This aired earlier today on AM 640 on Toronto This Weekend. ..https://globalnews.ca/radio/640toronto/shows/
 

Speaking of Matthew Perry's passing, both ABC and NBC's nightly news shows led with the story over the Israel-Hamas war. 

But I can't fathom what they were thinking on Global. They started their 6 PM newscast with anchor Mark Carcasole doing copy about the passing of Perry, calling the tragedy "their top story" with more to come, only to shift immediately ("but first...") to the terrible war in the Middle East.

And that's fine. 

But then, they didn't get back to the Matthew Perry story until 6:27 PM - the final yarn in the entire newscast. I'm familiar with teasers but this was ridiculous! You don't lead with a story, call it your top item, and then get back to it as your very final piece. 

I'd love to know what the producer who lined up this show was thinking. That's just insane.

RadioActive wrote:

Speaking of Matthew Perry's passing, both ABC and NBC's nightly news shows led with the story over the Israel-Hamas war. 

But I can't fathom what they were thinking on Global. They started their 6 PM newscast with anchor Mark Carcasole doing copy about the passing of Perry, calling the tragedy "their top story" with more to come, only to shift immediately ("but first...") to the terrible war in the Middle East.

And that's fine. 

But then, they didn't get back to the Matthew Perry story until 6:27 PM - the final yarn in the entire newscast. I'm familiar with teasers but this was ridiculous! You don't lead with a story, call it your top item, and then get back to it as your very final piece. 

I'd love to know what the producer who lined up this show was thinking. That's just insane.

That would have probably kept me tuned in to the whole newscast to be honest...

My guess is that they were waiting from an AP News or ABC News video story on Perry's death from one of their newsfeeds, which either didn't show up or some sort of technical error kept from getting on their air. They probably just had time to have someone hastily slap together a copy story.

RadioActive wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

Steve Paikin did a nice interview with his younger brother Jeff who became a pal of Matthew years ago in Los Angeles. Some interesting stories.

This aired earlier today on AM 640 on Toronto This Weekend. ..https://globalnews.ca/radio/640toronto/shows/

Yes, it was a pretty interesting interview, and boy, did they get a lot of mileage out of it. Not only did it go out live during the first part of the weekend morning show, they replayed part of it in the final hour of Paikin's fill-in. (With Paikin mentioning on-air that P.D. Mike Bendixen suggested the second run.)

And then several hours later, Roy Green rerolled almost all of it in the final half-hour of his show. It would not surprise me if part of it turns up again on Greg Brady's morning show on Monday.

And it was rerun again on Paikin's fill in show Monday afternoon. That makes four airings of the same interview in less than 24 hours. 

I heard that 'interview' with Paikin's hockey-playing brother so often, I swear I was part of the team with him, Perry and Kiefer Sutherland.  Enough, already.
 

A major update in this story has five people arrested for allegedly helping to supply Canadian actor and Friends star Matthew Perry with the ketamine that killed him. Among those charged: his own assistant and two doctors.

"U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada announced the charges Thursday, saying the doctors supplied Perry with a large amount of ketamine and even wondered in a text message how much the former “Friends” star would be willing to pay.

“These defendants took advantage of Mr. Perry’s addiction issues to enrich themselves. They knew what they were doing was wrong,” Estrada said.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. 

More here.