Rob Ford once made a fool of himself on Jimmy Kimmel and CFRB's "Touchdowns & Fumbles" commentator Bob Reid, who was a political consultant and advisor to him at the time, once said it was one of his biggest mistakes to tell the late mayor to go on the U.S. talk show at the height of his crack cocaine scandal. 

Kimmel completely made fun of him and while Ford spent most of his time promoting Toronto, a city he loved, he wound up looking really bad. They even hired country star Chris Daughtry to sing "The Ballard of Rob Ford," which contained the lyric, "he's the drunk driving, crack smoking mayor of Toronto."

 

paterson1 wrote:

Both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper had cameo roles on Corner Gas.   A show that RA has likely never watched other than the first few minutes of the first episode...

Could this be the beginning of another P1/RA ?Discussion"?

RadioActive wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

Both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper had cameo roles on Corner Gas.   A show that RA has likely never watched other than the first few minutes of the first episode...

You see, that's where you're wrong again! I've never seen a single second of it!

Don't feel like I missed anything, but I'm glad for others who enjoyed it. 

Didn't miss anything?  Other than knowing politicians appearing in a scripted show is not unique to Olivia Chow.
 
When the former PM's were in Corner Gas and Harper also in Murdoch Mysteries was fairly prominent in the news.  Surprised you weren't aware. 

I watched this episode, recorded after the Leaf game.  A dark storyline about junior hockey culture. hazing and families who billet young hockey players.  This is only the second installment of Law and Order Toronto that I have watched and the episode last night was pretty good.  I intend to watch the series in the summer.  

I wonder if this show is still drawing great ratings.  The debut had well over 1 million live viewers and was the number one show that evening on Canadian TV.  I am sure it has slid somewhat but curious to know if it is still drawing good numbers. 

Olivia's segment lasted all of about five seconds and she had one line.  Looked like she was a citizen who had an appointment with one of the inspectors. 

The series really sputtered out of the gate, but began to improve as of about episode 3.
Since then it has steadily improved, but it still suffers from some basic flaws.
The cast is pretty much completely unknown.
The two main characters are rather standard, dogged police inspector roles with the slight exception of Aiden Young as Harry Graff, a sort of know-it-all who seems to be an aficionado of fine art, and an expert on meteorology among other things.
Young is an Australian-Canadian actor who has been nominated for a few Sundance awards.
Anyway we'll see if these actors and character really grow on the audience, but they are a far cry from Sam Waterston or Marissa Hartigay -- or even Ice T for that matter.



 

If you have the streaming channel MHZ and Topic, you can watch many episodes of "Inspector Rex."
I believe this is the inspiration for "Rex and Me."
It's a German series featuring an intrepid German Shepherd police dog.

Binson Echorec wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

Rex & Me

newsguy1 wrote:

If you have the streaming channel MHZ and Topic, you can watch many episodes of "Inspector Rex."
I believe this is the inspiration for "Rex and Me."
It's a German series featuring an intrepid German Shepherd police dog.

Hudson & Rex, not "Rex and Me".

Hahaha..correct.  At least I didn't call the show  The Littlest Hobo!

paterson1 wrote:

Hahaha..correct.  At least I didn't call the show  The Littlest Hobo!

Maybe tomorrow!

   I guess this was a bit different, but the Romper Room kids went to Ottawa sometime in the 70s or 80s, and met Pierre Trudeau.

Before Air Farce there was Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicinde Show.
It features comic actors from BC.



They were utterly hilarious and performed their radio routines live at the UBC Student Union Building auditorium.
One of my favorite bits was a detective spoor, "Spud Canuck, Horsefly Private Eye."