The long awaited cross-format premier draws closer. With attention turning to this new medium, more light is shed on the details of the venture in the latest media report by the Globe and Mail.
VANCOUVER — ‘Rex Murphy is going crazy,” Tom Green said this week from his home in Los Angeles, referring not to the CBC commentator (and Globe and Mail columnist) but to his own pet green-winged macaw, squawking loudly and interrupting Green’s thoughts on comedy, television and second chances.
Green is spending a lot of time at home these days, where he has been hosting a live online talk show - a program he is now preparing for television. Tom Green’s House Tonight will premiere on The Comedy Network across Canada on Jan. 7 (it is also being syndicated in the United States). Until now, the show has existed only as a nightly live Web broadcast called Tom Green Live.
In 1997, The Comedy Network in Canada acted as a launching pad for Tom before getting picked up by MTV in 1999. So now, with the polished new set and some new technology, it’s back to Tom’s old stomping grounds.
Green seems particularly jazzed about new birch panelling. “It’s exciting to be backed by such a great wood,” he said during a recent Web preview of the new set, called The Construction Special. “Is that Canadian birch?” he asks the workers behind him.
Big thanks to the Globe and Mail.
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