In TV ratings totals, the first week of CBC’s Summer Olympic Games coverage took the gold medal in Numeris’ weekly Top-30 program rankings. In terms of average minute audience date, CBC’s week-long, prime time average of close to 1.4 million viewers included repeats of several medal-winning highlights. Thay included Maggie Mac Neil (pictured above) and
Despite the headwinds of the pandemic, the 13-hour time zone difference and so many other streaming options, CBC saw some solid and consistent returns from their coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The viewing high point came on August 6, Day 14 of the Games when, live at 10:47 a.m. ET, Julia Grosso’s
I was still in the art department of TV Guide Canada when Night Court emerged as one of NBC’s strongest assets, along with The Cosby Show, Cheers and Hill Street Blues. There was a wide, counter top light table in the art department which illuminated dozens of slides. Pipe smoking editor Ken Larone, the one adult in an office full of twentysomethings,
Director David Winning was in touch to remind me about his latest feature for Hallmark, “The 27-Hour Day.” (See the trailer, above.) It premieres Saturday on both the Hallmark Channel in the States and W Network in Canada. Shot entirely in Agassiz and Langley, B.C., the film stars Hallmark favourites Autumn Reeser and Andrew Walker
Who is Mike Richards? A lot of Jeopardy! fans are asking that today after it was leaked by Variety that Richards, the 46-year-old executive producer of the long-running quiz show, is in final negotiations with Sony Pictures Television to succeed Alex Trebek as host of the series. Trebek died last November at 80 after soldiering
The first official — and virtual — session of the Television Critics Association’s annual summer press tour kicked off Thursday. FX was the host broadcaster, and there on critic’s home screens was our pal John Solberg at the FX podium. The veteran press boss stood on the stage of the Beverly Hilton’s grand ballroom —
America’s Got Talent came back rather slow this summer but by the week of July 19-25 it had climed to the No. 1 spot in the weekly English Canada TV ratings. This is a week that saw the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games vault CBC into two Top 10 finishes for the week, including the encore,
Yes, Paris Hilton is back and she’s in the kitchen. Stand back and see what other stirring shows the month brings (check back all month as this page will be updated): SUN/AUG 1 FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 (CBC Gem). This hour-long variety special marks the historic day slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in