By Jenna Adams On Sunday, 656 000 Canadians tuned in to CBC to watch a 2-hour special designed to unveil Canada’s Smartest Person. Hosted by comedian and Mr. D star Gerry Dee, it focused on the theory of multiple intelligences pioneered by Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist and professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard … Continue reading Canada’s Most Versatile Person?
From a media release: HOW SMART ARE YOU, CANADA? PLAY ALONG WITH CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON SUNDAY, MARCH 18 AT 8 P.M. ON CBC-TV Show your smarts as you play along in real time with the CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON App, available now on the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users Viewers can go … Continue reading Canada’s Smartest Person asks: how smart are you?
From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail: The Big Decision: More CBC pro-business blarney The Big Decision is the corporation’s latest foray into reality-TV-style, pro-business blarney and another attempt to squeeze every possible ounce of programming from Dragons’ Den. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Republic of Doyle and Mr. D, the CBC’s main network … Continue reading The Big Decision more of “CBC pro-business blarney”
From Alex Strachan of Postmedia News: Gerry Dee on Canada’s Smartest Person: ‘There’s something to be said for competitiveness’ Toronto comedian Gerry Dee — self-described “dummy,†former teacher, creator and star of the CBC Monday-night comedy, Mr. D, and host of this weekend’s smarty-pants contest, Canada’s Smartest Person — has his own definition of “smart,†… Continue reading Canada’s Smartest Person goes beyond book smarts
From Jaime Weinman of Maclean’s: How do Canadian networks sustain a smash TV hit? Who says Canadians won’t watch CanCon? The CBC got over a million viewers (a good number in a country of 33 million) for its recent premieres of the adventure series Arctic Air and the comedy Mr. D, while the miniseries Bomb … Continue reading How to sustain a hit?
