Our Oscar special, presented in 7 parts:

Part 1: Intro

Part 2: The BIG award that everyone is talking about


Part 3: Best Actor/Supporting Actor

Part 4: Best Actress/Supporting Actress


Part 5: Competition in the arts

Part 6: Best past Oscar hosts

Part 7: Best Director/Best Picture

A special thanks to our Special guests: Dave Humphrey & Ryan Leandres from Steve’s Movieworld in Kitchener and Jay Chagnon & Susan Cook-Scheerer of Daytime on Rogers TV Kitchener.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18TH – LIVE ON ROGERS TV!

Rogers TV is rolling out the red carpet and inviting viewers to weigh-in with their movie awards picks and predictions during the Armchair Directors Awards Show Special Saturday, February 18 LIVE at 8 PM on Rogers TV, Cable 20. The show repeats Sunday, February 26 at 4 PM.

Join the Armchair Directors, Matthew Crandall and Michael Mercy, as they dish on this year’s movie awards nominees with daytime’s Jay Chagnon and Susan Cook-Scheerer. Viewers can join the discussion via Twitter @rogerstvcable20, or phone at (519) 893-6905.

“As Hollywood prepares for the film industry’s biggest night of the year, we want to hear what viewers in this region have to say about this year’s Oscar® nominees,” says Charles Wechsler, Station Manager, Rogers TV.

“This is an exciting opportunity for us to interact with fellow movie fans in real time,” says Matthew Crandall, Community Producer and Co-host of Armchair Directors. “It will be fun to take the show out of the screening room and into a live format where viewers can be part of the conversation as we shine the light on the best of the best in the film industry.”

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Think you know who is going to clean up at The Oscars this year? It is time to prove it – join our first annual ARMCHAIR DIRECTORS OSCAR POOL online and you could win a prize. It only takes a few minutes to make your picks – so show us what you’ve got!

ENTER THE ARMCHAIR DIRECTORS OSCAR POOL

It’s that time of year again, time to donate to the 2011 Toy Mountain Christmas Special. Everyone who donates a new unwrapped toy or makes a Paypal donation receives an IMDB credit special thanks: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1813722/ To donate, visit http://www.rockyskidz.com for more info. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from Crandall & Mercy, The Armchair Directors!

In case you missed it in our RIGHT DIRECTION: Sylvester Stallone video, we’re giving away a blu-ray copy of ROCKY BALBOA in our first Armchair Directors contest. Just send us an email, tell us which dead movie franchise NEEDS another sequel. I’m counting down the days until Jurassic Park 4 – what are you hoping gets the sequel treatment? Send your answer to armchairdirectors@gmail.com with the subject heading “CONTEST”. Good luck!

“It’s about damn time!” For the last few weeks we have been offering audio versions of our episodes in a ‘podcast’ – but a podcast with purely recycled content was pretty ho-hum. So ho-hum no longer, we are happy to introduce the start of the Armchair Directors Podcast 2.0. The new revamped format kicks off with ALL NEW CONTENT, so check it out – then the last part of the podcast will be the episode audio reviews we’ve been bringing you.

So for the inaugural episode of Podcast 2.0 Crandall and Mercy talk about the Alien invasion flick “Skyline” (polished turd), Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in “The Tourist”, we shoot the breeze about some new Hollywood gossip, get a quick rundown on “Limitless” and “Paul” and totally geek out at the idea of a Robocop statue – throw in the episode 14 reviews of “Battle: Los Angeles”, “The Next Three Days” and a blu-ray spotlight and you’ve got over an hour of Armchair Director podcast goodness. Get clickin’!

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If adventure has a podcast, it must be the INDYCAST! Crandall & Mercy chat with Ed Dolista of the Indycast about all things Indiana Jones!

You can listen to the podcast at http://www.forcecast.net

Everyone that donates a new unwrapped toy to this wonderful event will receive a special thanks credit on the Toy Mountain page on the IMDB site. If you don’t have an IMDB page this special thanks credit will create one for you. Help be the “Best Part” of a child’s Christmas this year and donate a toy or make a donation through Paypal. Follow the link for how to help. Happy Holidays from the Armchair Directors!

Crandall & Mercy are headed back to your TV screens! Armchair Directors will begin airing a new weekly half hour show on Rogers TV Cable 20 in Waterloo Region on Friday, Dec 3rd at 4:30pm and in Guelph/Stratford/Brantford on Saturday Dec 4th at 10:30pm. We’ll try not to let it go to our heads this time.

First Air: Fridays @ 4:30pm (Waterloo Region only)
Repeats: Saturdays @ 10:30pm (All regions)
Sundays @ 11:30am (All regions)
Tuesdays @ 4:30pm (Waterloo Region only)
Tuesdays @ 1pm (Brantford, Guelph & Stratford only)
Tuesdays @ 8:30pm (All regions)
Thursdays @ 8:30pm (All regions)