Mark Critch and Shaun Majumder riff on, well, each other in their satire of CBC TV and CBC Radio’s young(ish) hosts. From This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

The folks who run the Strombo fan site, Stroumboulolouli, have posted a great video interview of Q host Jian Ghomeshi.

CBC recording engineer Joe Mahoney has a great description of the harrowing first day of Jian Ghomeshi’s daily Q arts show on CBC Radio One:

At one o’clock there’s a newscast. According to our information on this first day, the newscast was six minutes long. There’s a countdown clock in the studio that tells us when we’re supposed to be live on air. It gives us a twenty second countdown.

At 1:04:40 we were enjoying this brief respite, anticipating another minute and twenty seconds before going live again, when suddenly the exec cried out. I looked up and the countdown clock was counting down, one minute early.

Was the clock wrong? Were we going to be live at 1:05?

We hastily decided to trust the clock and start the show. I called master control at the same time to ask them if the clock was right. I needed an answer before 1:06, because if the clock was wrong we would have to restart the show at 1:06. Master told us that as far as they knew the clock was right. So we carried on with the show.

Afterward we learned that we had the wrong information, and that the start time for part three of the show is indeed 1:05.

You can read the full gory details of that first day on air on his blog at http://www.assortednonsense.com

Q earns a tentatively positive review from Blogcritics Magazine: “Overall, Q is what I expected it to be - a few mistakes here and there, rough around the edges, and not without dodgy interview subjects (Suzie McNeil from Rock Star: INXS and the Toronto performance of Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You, although that interview had good insight into how reality shows actually work).  Still, as debuts go, Q shows some promise. It doesn’t stray far from the CBC/public radio mandate, but I like that the show has potential to cover territory unfamiliar to CBC Radio and I hope Q exploits that in the near future.”

CBC Radio One’s new daily afternoon show, Q, is now on the air.

Have you had a chance to listen to Q?

What do you think?

(Note: This is a forum for comments about Q, not Freestyle, which Q replaced.)

The name of Jian Ghomeshi’s national CBC Radio afternoon show has been decided, and it is:

Q

That’s it. Just Q.