"The Being Frank Show" (2010) TV series 2010-

Director:

Jeremy Major

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

5 November 2010 (Canada)

Genre:

Talk-Show

Plot:

Variety show hosted by Frank D'Angelo with celebrity interviews, comedy bits and much more.

Cast

Glen Foster		(3 episodes, 2011-2012)
Bill Watters	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2011-2012)
Steven Joel Kerzner		(3 episodes, 2011)
Bai Ling		(2 episodes, 2010-2011)
Paul Chato		(2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Carla Collins		(2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Howard Glassman		(2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Spider Jones	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Cedric Newman		(2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Fred Patterson		(2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Jim Tatti	...	Himself - Co-host (2 episodes, 2011-2012)
Walter Alza		(2 episodes, 2011)
Alana Bridgewater		(2 episodes, 2011)
Theo Fleury	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2011)
Dan Hill		(2 episodes, 2011)
Jeff Joslin		(2 episodes, 2011)
Andrea Lewis		(2 episodes, 2011)
Chuck Liddell		(2 episodes, 2011)
'Big' John McCarthy		(2 episodes, 2011)
Kyla Tingley		(2 episodes, 2011)
Marty Weiss	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2011)
Cleopatra Williams		(2 episodes, 2011)
George Chuvalo	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2012)
Rick Cordeiro	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2012)
Rik Emmett	...	Himself (2 episodes, 2012)
Dan Guiry		(2 episodes, 2012)
Missi Pyle	...	Herself (2 episodes, 2012)

Series Directed by
Jeremy Major		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Kelly Carney	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Mike Cecere	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Frank D'Angelo	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Tim Nanasi		(23 episodes, 2011-2012)
Robin Gardiner Davids		(unknown episodes)
Aaron Lam		(unknown episodes)

Series Makeup Department
Rachel Renna	....	assistant makeup artist (3 episodes, 2011-2012)

Series Casting Department
Aaron Morrell	....	casting coordinator (8 episodes, 2010)
Jeff Burns	....	executive in charge of casting (3 episodes, 2011)

Production Companies

• The Shooting Eye (in association with)

Distributors

• CHCH-TV (2010) (Canada) (TV)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

The Shooting Eye

Hahahahah I can't believe this is listed on IMDb!

First of all this isn't a real show, this is paid for infomercial advertising time. Frank D'Angelo is one of the owners of Steelback Breweries and D'Angelo pasta and Cheetah Energy drinks and when this "show" goes to commercial break it is him selling his own products! The network even runs a disclaimer saying they don't agree with his opinions and it's paid for advertising time! Kudos to him or whoever got this "show" listed on IMDb that's hilarious. Also they will soon be listing that other great TV show "ShamWow!" hahah.

Frank D'Angelo is the single worst TV show host I have ever seen and I am even comparing him to Mike Bullard and PopCultured and other terrible Canadian TV shows. Mike Bullard was even a guest on Being Frank and even he looked awesome sitting next to this clown and cracking jokes at Frank's expense. Frank has no idea what to say almost all the time, is completely awkward and inept and as the other reviewer points out he doesn't even know how to conduct his interviews! I saw him talk to an author and he literally said "this is a fantastic book, everyone should go buy it, I recommend it" then like two sentences later he said "I haven't had a chance to read this yet, what's it about?" hahaha. The interview guests always look like they want to run for it and didn't know what they were signing up for. Obviously Frank is paying people to be on this show (like he used to pay NHL stars to hang out with him in his Steelback brewery commercials, or were those actually a "TV show" too haha?) he even had Al Pacino appear on the show once and that was just as painful as all his other interviews. When his guest sings Frank always makes himself part of that by asking if he can sing with them, as if anybody cares to see him sing, he is almost as bad a singer as he is a TV show host. I don't know what else I can say about how bad this show and the host are! Frank also does character skits where he even plays the character himself and he talks to the character "live via satellite", really he is watching a tape of himself playing a character (poorly obviously) and asking himself questions he pre-recorded answers to. The characters I saw on the "best of show" (haha yep he had a "best of" show) were himself as his fat old aunt who kept un-crossing her legs, himself as a mob informant angry that now everyone knew where he was, and himself as his uncle a stock broker who's stock tips were all terrible (lost track of how many Enron jokes he crammed in there). Also as the characters he swears like every other word as if that will magically make him funny. The studio audience looks like they have a gun pointed at them or else they would run for it too, they literally must be either family members or getting free meals/drinks to sit there without complaining about how awful Frank is. This show is a train wreck like the other reviewer said and if it was intentional it would probably be brilliant comedy but it is supposed to be taken as a real professional show and just fails so badly that it's sad. Frank obviously has a real deep need for attention and control or something, I think the Now magazine article hit the nail on the head saying what a terrible and needy person he is, it's just sad that this garbage is actually eating up TV time and I hope CHCH would turn down whatever money he is paying them and actually run a real show instead because this is just pathetic.