Hockey Night With Strombo

[Darren Dirt]

but the cantankerous octogenarian Don Cherry is still not going anywhere...

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/george-stroumboulopoulos-to-anchor-hockey-night-in-canada-1.2566805

[Mr. Analog]

I tune into HNIC specifically to see Don Cherry if a team I'm following is playing or not.

One of the very few at CBC who's actually interesting to watch and isn't afraid to say something stupid or wrong

Better than the "talking heads" round table crap they otherwise put on, good lord, it's worse than twitter

[Darren Dirt]

I tune into HNIC specifically to see Don Cherry if a team I'm following is playing or not.

One of the very few at CBC who's actually interesting to watch and isn't afraid to say something stupid or wrong

Better than the "talking heads" round table crap they otherwise put on, good lord, it's worse than twitter

Based on how Strombo actively engages with his interviewees*, and often surprises with his points of view (or what he brings out of his interviewees) I expect this will very much be a "not your father's HNIC" era about to start with him as host... I can't imagine him signing on accepting a condition that he's just going to be a yes-man-talking-head for the younger audience.




* but will no longer be doing so: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/10/as-george-stroumboulopoulos-moves-to-hockey-night-in-canada-we-look-at-the-cbcs-difficult-history-with-the-talk-show-format/
Ah well, there'll always be the archive of Best Story Evers to peruse...

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/11/success-has-been-a-journey-for-strombo-marek-and-mackowycz
Reading the ^ comments ^ it's like, was this casting a 20-year-long "overnight success"? or nepotism?