#FIRSTLOOK:”BRYAN ADAMS AND FRIENDS: A GREAT BIG HOLIDAY JAM” AND “THE PRICE IS RIGHT TONIGHT” COMING TO CITYTV AND CITYTV+

This holiday season, Citytv and Citytv+ are delivering a gift-wrapped lineup of star-powered specials, merry movies, heartwarming surprises, and much more, beginning November 23, 2025.

Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams headlines new Citytv original Bryan Adams and Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam, a one-hour special featuring festive hits and appearances from Alessia Cara, Alan Doyle, Barenaked Ladies, Lights, The Sheepdogs, and more – all set in Bryan’s intimate in-the-round Warehouse studio. With the warmth, spontaneity, and front-row energy of a live jam session, audiences are invited to share in the music, memories, and holiday magic. Broadcast details to be announced in the coming months.

“The holidays have always been a special time for me and I’m thrilled to be joined by some of Canada’s most talented artists. The Great Big Holiday Jam is going to be joyful and unforgettable – the perfect soundtrack to the season,” said Bryan Adams.

On November 23, Citytv delivers the magic of the season in a live broadcast of the Original Santa Claus Parade from downtown Toronto. The live broadcast will be hosted by Breakfast Television’s Dina Pugliese, Tim Bolen, Rick Campanelli, and Devo Brown who will bring all the action from the parade route featuring a stunning array of decorated floats, lively bands, marchers, and more. More details on the Original Santa Claus Parade to be announced in the coming weeks.

NEW HOLIDAY-THEMED SERIES AND SPECIALS INCLUDE:

Citytv Very Merry Movies on Citytv and Citytv+
Bake Master Battle with Dina Pugliese, April Julian, and Dwight Smith on Food Network and Citytv+
Come Dine With Me Canada on Food Network and Citytv+
Then, ring in the New Year with the biggest party on television, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, airing December 31 on Citytv and Citytv+

APPLY NOW TO BE PART OF THE PRICE IS RIGHT TONIGHT

Come On Down, Canada! This December, Canadians can take part in The Price is Right Tonight, an all-new one-hour primetime edition of the iconic smash-hit global format from Fremantle, The Price is Right, hosted by legendary comedian and television personality Howie Mandel. Every seat in the audience gives attendees a chance to be a contestant on the show! Canadians can apply now at www.thepriceisrighttonight.ca. The Price is Right Tonight is slated to air on Citytv and Citytv+, a subsidiary of Rogers Sports & Media, in Spring 2026.

“I’m thrilled to invite fans from all walks of life to come and be part of The Price is Right Tonight. It’s a unique opportunity to experience the excitement and joy of one of television’s most successful and longest-running gameshows in TV history. If you love fun, games, and winning incredible prizes, now’s your chance!” said Howie Mandel, Host, The Price is Right Tonight.

About Rogers Sports & Media

Rogers Sports & Media is a diverse sports and content company that engages more than 30 million Canadians monthly. The company’s dynamic portfolio of media assets includes more than 50 radio stations, 67 community TV channels, 31 conventional and specialty television channels and more. Rogers Sports & Media delivers unique storytelling through its range of powerful brands: HGTV, Food Network, Bravo, Citytv, Citytv+, Discovery, ID, OMNI Television, FX, Breakfast Television, 98.1 CHFI, KiSS, CityNews and Sportsnet – Canada’s #1 sports network. Rogers Sports & Media is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX, NYSE: RCI). Visit rogerssportsandmedia.com.

About Citytv
A distinctive alternative to conventional programming, Citytv and Citytv streaming (Citytv+) is home to bold dramas, fan-favourite reality TV, Canadian originals, as well as local news and entertainment programs such as CityNews and Breakfast Television. Citytv is a part of Rogers Sports & Media, a division of Rogers Communications Inc., Canada’s leading communications and entertainment company (TSX, NYSE: RCI).

#SPOTTED: TAYLOR SWIFT IN TORONTO FOR “REPUTATION STADIUM TOUR” AT ROGERS CENTRE

Few Artists understand and know how to execute that connection to their fans like Taylor Swift. Now onto her fifth tour, the acclaimed and influencial 28-year-old Singer/Songwriter touched-down at Toronto’s Rogers Centre for two energy-filled nights, August 3-4, 2018. The Stadium tour in support of her 2017 studio disc Reputation, sees her delivering her catalog of hits once again, with an emphasis on that album which dealt with some of her very public personal battles and her perception.

Fans attending Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour are gifted with an extravagant spectacle with a recurring snake motif which keeps popping-up throughout. Some can interpret this as her owning the label she so publicly has been given since Kim Kardashian had accused her of dishonesty in a much-talked-about scandal between Swift and husband Kanye West. More here.

Fans got a much more sensual, self-assured Swift over two nights at the Toronto venue, by far her most refined and heavily-choreographed stage production yet. She pronounces proudly her full transformation to Pop Icon status from her humble Country beginnings. Everything from three stages extending deep into the audience, to her being propelled into the air while performing the down-tempo Delicate were artfully-calculated moves to make for an intimate experience. She took a moment before that song to deliver some candid candor about accepting the fact that people will never stop talking about us behind our backs and that we should embrace it. Guests even were gifted with lit-up wristbands synced in colour to the night’s setlist. Lucky fans who lined Swift’s “Snake Pit” got a chance to touch her hand as she zig-zagged her way through fans.

Joining Swift on-tour were Charli XCX and Camila Cabello, giving fans three shows for the price of one and they re-surfaced late in the show to join her in a rendition of hit Shake it Off. An even bigger bomb-drop came towards the end when Swift presented also touring Canadian Rockstar Bryan Adams on-stage for a duet of his hit Summer of 69, driving the audience ballistic!

 

See some Snaps from the night. We were way, way up but felt so close to it all, kudos to Swift!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Swift now gets a couple days off before playing her native Pennsylvania later this week.
 
See the Highlights here:

Rep Tour Tor from Will Wong on Vimeo.

 
(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong)

#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF MICHAEL BUBLÉ’S “TO BE LOVED”

International Superstar Michael Bublé next week will release his eighth Studio Disc To Be Loved and to ring-in the occasion,   Warner Music Canada and Mr. Will Wong want to give Canadian Readers a chance to win a Copy!  The Album not only features Covers of Standards which we’ve come to love him for, but also four Original Tracks!

 Check-out the amazing Track Listing below:

You Make Me Feel So Young
It’s a Beautiful Day
To Love Somebody
Who’s Lovin You
Something Stupid with Reese Witherspoon
Come Dance With Me
Close Your Eyes
After All with Bryan Adams
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You with Naturally 7
To Be Loved
You’ve Got A Friend In Me
Nevertheless (I’m in love with you) with The Puppini Sisters
I Got It Easy
Young At Heart

 Yes, you read right. Reese Witherspoon and Bryan Adams are featured!

Official Artwork below:

 

To enter to win a Copy, simply click “like” on this Post at Mr. Will Wong on Facebook  before April 23, 2013.  Double your chances by sharing this Post on Facebook or Re-Tweeting the below:

http://www.mrwillwong.com/bublecdgiveaway @MRWILLW wants me to #win a Copy of #MichaelBuble‘s #ToBeLoved. In stores 4/22/13! #contest #giveaway

Good luck.

I spotted Buble here in Toronto last month once again and he’s just as nice as we remember!  See him throw you a wave here!

Warner Music Canada releases To Be Loved on Tuesday, April 22, 2013. 

Pre-Order To Be Loved here.

 

(Photo credit: Warner Music)

#NEWMUSIC: MICHAEL BUBLÉ – “IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY”

Everybody loves a bit of Bublé!  Canadian Crooner Michael Bublé has just released his brand new Single, the cheery It’s a Beautiful Day. On the Track, we hear him veer away from the Jazz Standards, sounding more Pop than ever.  The Vocals however are unmistakably him and we can never say “no” to a big, brassy Horn section.  Lots of fun and surely to become one of those Songs you will hear looped at least three times on the Adult Contemporary Station during  that two-hour-long wait at your Doctor’s Office.

Bublé will be performing the Track at the JUNOs, which he also will be hosting on April 21, 2013.

Bublé’s fifth Studio Disc To Be Loved, gets an April 22, 2013 release via Warner Music Canada.  It is said the Album will feature a Duets with Bryan Adams and Reese Witherspoon!

Official Artwork below:

Listen to the Track below:

(Photo/audio credit: Warner Music)