Global News Radio host Jeff McArthur called Wednesday and asked me to weigh in on a recent report: “Are we streamed out?” You can listen to our discussion by clicking on the arrow above. The question arises as Netflix imposes a new price hike for subscribers. The standard plan in Canada just went from $14.99
Good grief! Pieces of our childhoods keep falling like snowflakes in January. News that Peter Robbins had passed away at 65 should give every boomer pause. His face may not be familiar, but on television he was the original voice of Charlie Brown. Tormented by mental health issues in his later years, his family announced
For the second week in a row, mid-season entry 9-1-1-: Lone Star sits atop the Numeris Top-30 of all shows watched in English Canada. Canadians, it seems, can’t get enough Rob Lowe. Here is the English Canada National tally for January 10-16 (all data average-minute-audience, ages 2+, compiled and estimated over seven days): 9-1-1: Lone
Tonight’s fourth episode of Son of a Critch is titled, “Cucumber Slumber.” It could have also have been called “Province in a Pickle.” The episode finds roving reporter Mike Sr. (played by Mark Critch) firmly behind a new provincial government initiative to make Newfoundland the cucumber capital of Canada. His sudden interest is swayed after
It wasn’t the ending Buffalo Bills fans had in mind (and within grasp) but that heart-stopping Bills-Kansas City Chiefs NFL Divisional Playoff game Sunday scored a big touchdown for CBS. According to the network, Bills-Chiefs was the most-watched divisional playoff game on any network in five years, averaging 42.736 million viewers. That’s up 18 per
Was that Season Five finale really the series-ender for SEAL Team? That’s the question many fans of the series are asking this week. The fifth season was truncated to just 14 episodes after the series migrated from CBS to the ViacomCBS streaming platform Paramount+ last fall. Fans in Canada had to wait until earlier this
Louie Anderson won three Emmy awards. One as a woman. The Minnesota-born comedian played Christine Baskets, mother to professional clown Chip (played by Zack Galifianakis), on the FX comedy Baskets (2016-2019). “I feel wonderful about the award, for two reasons,” Anderson told reporters gathered in Pasadena, Calif., in 2017 for the semi-annual Television Critics Association
Who doesn’t love Meat Loaf? I met the Grammy Award-winning singer — a.k.a. Michael Lee Aday — in 2016 in London. The burly rock star with the booming voice was there to promote the premiere of a West End musical based on his 1977 rock anthem album Bat Out of Hell — one of the