Post by merg on May 27, 2004 14:13:27 GMT -5
Calgary Sun
Calgary’s Fink to replace Bullard
by Kevin Williamson
Calgary Sun
Jebb Fink won’t be up for breakfast anymore. The Calgary television personality, who has co-hosted A-Channel’s The Big Breakfast for the past seven years, has signed with Global TV to host a new nighttime comedy-talk show, premiering June 12.
Fink’s show — which will blend current affairs and comedy — is being earmarked to fill the vacancy left by the cancellation of The Mike Bullard Show this past March.
“Certainly that’s what we’re looking at,” Fink says while stressing the differences between Bullard’s show and Global Late Night (it will actually air at 10 p.m.).
“Somebody asked me why I thought this would work and Bullard didn’t. But I think it’s an unfair comparison.
“This type of show is so different. The star of this show is really the subject matter while the standard talk show has the guest as the star.”
Prior to a series debut, Fink heads to Toronto next week to tape four specials. While he says he isn’t moving to Toronto right now, Fink acknowledges he may have to if the series goes nightly, since chances are it wouldn’t be shot in Calgary.
“I don’t know if we’d be able to do it here. It would be a perfect world if we could …
“We’d just have to see how everything pans out. Calgary’s my home … My daughter’s 13, she has a lot of friends here — there would be a lot to consider.”
Already Fink says he’s going to miss working on The Big Breakfast, which he exits May 28.
“Hugely, yeah. Dave (Kelly) and I have been together for seven years, since the beginning. We were like brothers. We fought like brothers occasionally, but we loved each other as brothers, too.
“It’s not going to be easy.”
Global Late Night won’t be Fink’s first foray into primetime.
He co-created An American in Canada, the short-lived CBC comedy series that was loosely based on his own experiences as a Los Angeles native who wound up living in a city north of the border.
2004-05-27
i'm sure he'll be better then Bullard on late night TV