This week in Strombo May 12 - 16

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week
Yes you may have seen some of these interviews before but catch them again while they are still here! Mostly at 11:30 pm local time.

Monday May 12 airs at 11:30 pm except:
NDT: 7:30 pm & 12:30 am
ADT: 7 pm & 12:30 am
PDT: midnight
Olympic gold medalist in Hockey Hayley Wickenheiser

Tuesday May 13
Olympic gold medalist in curling Jennifer Jones

Patrick Chan won the silver in figure skating. Currently touring with Stars on Ice

Wednesday May 14
Commissioner of the NHL Gary Bettman

On the Panel Ali Hassan, Ron Sparks and Emma Hunter

Thursday May 15
Comedian/actor Dave Foley

Retired CNN host Larry King

and Brent Butt tells you something you may not know.

Friday May 16 
Singer/songwriter/radio host Randy Bachman

Musical superstarRaghav

and legend Barbara Walters

This week in Strombo Mar 31 - April 4

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week

There are only two more weeks of show tapings, then the crew wrap it up and prepare for whatever is next for them. The show will still air on CBC until mid summer. The CBC website will still have all the video archives of The Hour/ George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight for now. Please keep checking in with strombo.com and with us. Strombo will be found on HNIC in the fall every weekend. Any hockey fans dream job. Proud of you Strombo!
George is also talking about doing specials on CBC. He plans to continue The Strombo Show on radio. Details of that you can find here when we know more. 

I have been blogging about The Hour and GST now going on 8 years and it's the end of a great show that I love dearly and this makes me sad. There are so many talented members of  George's team (writers, researchers, producers, technical production staff and audience wranglers) that I would like to thank for their contributions to a great show day in and day out. Also I want to thank all the talented members past and present of this blog for contributing to it over the years.
  
You could say I have been blessed because I met so many great people through George, whether it be in line to see a taping, or online through people who follow G's tweets and posts. It probably happens with any fans of anything anywhere, but it feels uniquely Canadian, as an experience, to be in this club by supporting a national TV talk show and radio host.  I have made a lot of good friends by networking with these good people. Thanks George for being the catalysts.

For those who are curious how this blog was named,  Stroumboulopouli is a name coined by someone at CBC Newsworld to describe George's fans. We took that name and ran with it.  What I didn't know when I took on this creative Stroumboulopouli group blog is that it would guide/flavour/colour/shape my future. Part of me still can't believe I took it on. What a ride! 

If you ask people who like George what do they like about him they will say things like, he is so down to earth. Really friendly. Smart. Charismatic. Thoughtful. Remembers their name on second meeting. Is a talented interviewer. Knows his music, sports, politics, films. Makes a huge effort for charities. Is a good/* bad role model. Takes time to give back to broadcast/journalism students. Is a loyal friend.
What do you say when people ask you what it is about George that you like? You can comment below.


Monday Mar 31
at 7 and 11:30
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird

At 7 pm GM of The Raptors Masai Ujiri

Tuesday Apr 1
Leader of the Federal Liberals The Honourable Justin Trudeau

Wednesday Apr 2 
Olympic medalist and world champion figure skater  Patrick Chan

 At 7 pm Olympic curler Jennifer Jones

Thursday Apr 3
Maple leaf Sports & Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke

at 11:30  Documentary Filmmaker David Douglas

 
Friday Apr 4 
Singer/Musician Loreena McKennitt

11:30
Afflicted Filmmakers Derek Lee and Clif Prowse
Trailer for Afflicted

Strombo this week Feb 3-8

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week


Monday Feb 4
Funny and charming Canadian crooner Matt Dusk

My fav Matt Dusk song Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad. His new album MY FUNNY VALENTINE: The Chet Baker Songbook will be in stores or on his website before Valentines Day

Director and activist Paul Haggis

Panel guest comedian Simon Rakoff

Tuesday Feb 5
From BNL the talented and multifaceted  Ed Robertson

plus singer songwriter k-os is in the house for GST and The Strombo Show!

Panel guest comedian Bobby Mair

Wednesday Feb 6
Television show creator Mark Burnett

Panel guest actress and comedian Kate Davis

Thursday Feb 7
Canadian figure skating champion Patrick Chan

Panel guest comedian and star of his own show Ron James

Friday Feb 8

The best of the week as always.
 
Sunday Feb 3
8pm -11pm The Strombo Show CBC Radio 2 

It's funny but the three degrees of Eric Alper segment on the Strombo Show must have been taped just after I ran into Eric Alper and Matt Dusk together in the atrium of the CBC. Both men have been guests on the podcast I produce, The Ward and Al Show, that is unrelated to this blog or the CBC. But the degrees of separation are less than three...That's the Canadian entertainment industry for you.