by Rob Cottingham | May 20, 2004 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
I just had a flash-flood of memories with the news that Paul Sutherland, the voice and creator behind Hammy Hamster, passed away earlier this month.I watched that show religiously as a kid. (It was probably all for the best that I never did the math comparing the... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 24, 2004 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
It’s a hard time to be a taxpayer-funded broadcaster in Canada. You’re either losing funding or being put on the auction block, and you just don’t seem to have many friends in government.Well, buck up. For the past year, a group called Our Public... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 23, 2003 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics
Last week’s announcement by the Canadian Television Fund capped off a godawful few years for Canadian dramatic TV.The CTF announced that nearly two-thirds of the fund’s applicants — including stalwarts like This Hour Has 22 Minutes — were...