Listen up, SEAL Team fans: a movie spinoff of the five-year old series, which migrated from CBS and Global to streaming service Paramount+ this past season, is in the works. The announcement was made Tuesday by CBS CEO and Paramount+ news and sports CCO George Cheeks. The movie, produced as a stand alone for the
Ivan Reitman (above right, with Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis on the set of “Ghostbusters”) packed a lot of movie theatres when I was a university student and beyond. His low-budget cottage country comedy “Meatballs”(1979) co-starred an actress named Kate Lynch who went to my high school in Etobicoke (Michael Power-St. Joseph’s). She was great,
CBC’s coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics fell short of the Top-10 podium in English Canada the week the Games began. The public network’s primetime re-broadcast of the opening ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 4 drew an average minute audience of 970,000 total 2+ viewers according to Numeris for a 14th place finish. The next highest
A tight, exciting game capping one of the best NFL playoffs runs ever helped Super Bowl LVI reverse the downward ratings trend in recent years of TV’s biggest draws. In Canada, the 2022 Super Bowl, won in the dying minutes by the Los Angeles Rams over the Cincinnati Bengals, attracted an average audience of 8.1
I’ve offered Valentine’s Day movie picks for the folks at Rogers Ignite before but this year they wanted something a little different. Instead of just the usual list of rom-coms, they asked me to weigh in on films to watch this February 14th — whether you love, hate or are indifferent to the occasion. To
Because its annoying and sometimes messy to have to look down from your bowl of chili to watch them on TV during the game, here is a link to some of tonight’s most-talked about Super Bowl ads on-line. With NBC selling commercial time for upwards of seven million dollars per spot, the new ads feature
Court will be back in session when Law & Order returns Feb. 24 on NBC. The series upon which executive producer Dick Wolf built an empire is returning after a 20 year run and then being “paused” since 2010. NBC ended their Television Critics Association virtual press session Friday with a Law & Order panel.
A few weeks ago my son Dan told me I should be watching How To with John Wilson. Man, was he right. It is currently my favourite TV show. It is so funny and thoughtful I don’t binge it — I want to draw this process of absorbing each one of these exceptional episodes out