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Canada's Next Top Model

In the news: Jay Manuel of Canada’s Next Top Model

Lee-Anne Goodman of the Canadian Press interviews the Canadian spin-off’s new host:

  • manuel.jpgJay Manuel comes north to hometown to host Canada’s Next Top Model
    “When they asked me to come and host the show, it was really important to me to be an executive producer. It wasn’t just a credit. I am involved in the show from soup to nuts, from hiring the right staff to educating them on how the show is done in the States to overseeing every little detail in production.”
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Ratings, Trailer Park Boys

In the news: Ratings and other lies

John Doyle of the Globe and Mail writes not specifically about Canadian television, but a reminder that ratings – especially here – can be deceptive:

  • Lies, damned lies, and viewership statistics
    “My point, and I do have one today, is that statistics lie, just as people do. Nobody is going broke in the TV racket. Viewers are not abandoning TV in droves. They’re watching what they want, when they want or when they can get to it, just like me. And I’m not special. Ask anyone.”
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In the news: No Opportunity Wasted interviews

From Alex Strachan of CanWest:

  • TV opportunity knocks
    “To hear Phil Keoghan tell it, No Opportunity Wasted is about making the most of every moment, about taking off your suit and/or tie — ‘and maybe a lot more while you’re at it’ — and swerving off that predictable road you’ve been travelling all these years onto a strange and bumpy path, ‘that just might, with a bit of luck, get you lost.’ Not that Keoghan advocates becoming lost as a life philosophy. It’s just that, after a close brush with death while scuba diving off a shipwreck when he was just 19, he decided not just to live life to its fullest, but to encourage others to do the same.”

From the Montreal Gazette:

  • Make the leap
    “‘Making a list gives you focus,’ Keoghan said during a telephone interview. ‘I hear ‘maybe one day’ so much. I say, why wait until the kids finish college? The older you get the more set in your ways you become and you fear failure. It’s good to push beyond that fear.'”
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