[joanie]

I hope you're all flooding <!-- e --><a href="mailto:entertain@ctv.ca">entertain@ctv.ca</a><!-- e --> with me to complain about the way Tanya Kim and Ben Mulroney are mis-handling the coverage tonight. Typical of these US-focused Hollywood sycophants.

In about thirty seconds, Kim managed to:
-make fun of Gordie's pronunciation of "Alexisonfire" and make the band, and everyone watching, totally uncomfortable
-ruin what started with "congratulations"
-demonstrate how terrible a broadcaster she is

This was just moments after Ben screwed up an interview with legend Jim Cuddy.

The Junos are a good effort - albeit flawed - to highlight Canadian talent and try to replicate some of the stuff we lose because we don't have a proper star system. With Kim and Mulroney, it seems that CTV is showing everyone that it couldn't care less about Canadian art.

Drop a line to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:entertain@ctv.ca">entertain@ctv.ca</a><!-- e --> and make sure they hear your disappointment. Gord, the boys, Jim Cuddy, and the Canadian industry need your support.

[Lizard King]

Since Tanya Kim just referred to Default as the Greatest Band In the World, yeah its pretty bad. :x

And why the hell doesnt Ben Mulroney calm down a bit, Im getting nervous just watching the guy, his anecdotes are about as funny as bad case of herpes.

[j-monster]

My approach was to not bother watching the pre-show coverage at all.

Works for me! :thumb:

[ron]

well due to network duplication i cannoy watch the junos because they forgot that they changed the desperate slut housewives show

[NMAS]

IT was bad. Canadians just have no business doing stuff like the pre show, are stars just aren't big enough, it is a waste of time, who wants to see Default ro some juy in a Mauve suit who no one has ever heard of... ant what the hell was Mulroney wearing.

[scottykarate]

Great Junos!!

Lousy pre-show, just like last year. You're right they make ppl very uncomfortable and the style is all wrong; of all the possible candidates this country possess, why these two and why these two twice: we should have learned from last year's embarassment..

Aside from that my highlights:

Feist-stopping mid song to have a prob fix!
KOS' performance.
Sum 41