"Living with Crystal Meth" With only one episode left in the entire "Breaking Bad" series, it's time to share my own story about working with "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan (briefly, oh, so briefly), as well as my own nightmare with crystal meth. Oh, I guess I...
Pack your passports, we're finally landing in Los Angeles for "ET Canada's Grammy Awards Red Carpet Special." A Toronto snowstorm and the Western world's most boring airport tried to crush my sanity, but here I was in the City of Angels... 36 hours late. There's...
Last week, I mentioned that ET Canada's biggest show of the year was the "Grammy Awards Red Carpet Special." It's the show's most elaborate production and it requires the most people to make it work. And, after seven years of working at ET Canada, I was finally given...
One of the strange realities of daily writing about Hollywood celebrities is that you definitely don't get to meet the stars. And you rarely get to see them either. You want to meet a celebrity? Become a reporter. Or better yet, become a make-up artist or a camera...
Last week, I reflected on my first two years of writing all the award shows at the Banff World Media Festival. After the thrill of creating jokes that made Ricky Gervais and William Shatner laugh, I fully intended to leave on a creative high and end my Rocky...
Beyond the marketing of my first book, the creation of my second one, and the daily task of writing all the studio material for "Entertainment Tonight Canada," I also freelance around and write for other producers, particularly award show producers. It started with...