LATEST UPDATE SEPT. 8: Ken Burns spent seven years making his four-part, eight hour documentary Muhammad Ali. The comprehensive profile of the famous boxer airs this month along with several docs commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11. (Please check back; this list will be updated throughout the month): WED/SEPT. 1 Future of Work (PBS). This
Really Global? You cancel a show when its ratings are higher than ever? Private Eyes‘ second-last telecast was the third most-watched show in English Canada the week of August 16-22 according to Tuesdays Top-30 release from data service Numeris. Total ratings for the series finale, which aired last Thursday, will be released next week. A
Steve Martin and Martin Short have a nice little side venture as a modern day comedy team. Their live shows are sensational. Together or apart, they are at the top of every late night talk show guest list. Add Selina Gomez and… whaa? Selina Gomez? A Boomer and Millennial three-fer? Abbott & Costello meet one
Towards the end of the “Chuckles Bites the Dust” episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the WJM News gang is sitting around thinking about how they’d like to make their final exit. “I don’t want anybody to make a fuss,” said Mr. Grant. “When I go, I just want to be stood outside in
There’s been a lot of discussion about the fallout from executive producer Mike Richards’ abortive attempt to become the next host of Jeopardy! Was he ditched because of insider-y optics that suggested the fix was in? Or was he cancelled after insensitive comments from the past that came back to haunt him? Either way, data
CBS is suddenly selling more properties than Frank Leo & Associates. On the heels of the news that CBSViacom had reached a deal to sell their Manhattan headquarters comes word that the media giant has also put its 40-arce, Studio City, Calif., production centre on the block. This will be heartbreaking news to Jim Belushi.
I did not meet, and have no first-hand stories, about Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who passed away Tuesday. The 80-year-old died in a London hospital just a week or so after the band announced that they would proceed with their next tour without him. I was at a 2003 Television Critics Association HBO
What is vying with naming Mike Richards the new host of Jeopardy for Worst Call in Television for 2021? Global’s decision to announce, before it aired, that this would be the fifth and final season of Private Eyes. The Jason Priestley/Cindy Sampson Toronto-based detective drama has owned the summer of ’21, averaging over a million