Tuesday night, more Canadians turned to CNN to guide them through a long and tense night of presidential election coverage. Many of us went to bed convinced (or hoping) John King was the new president elect. The Atlanta-based all news network drew an average minute audience of 1,546,000 English Canadian viewers over a six hour
God knows Canada needs a new Broadcasting Act. The first clue: they’re still calling it the Broadcasting Act. Network heads and studio executives have been lobbying hard for years to have the Canadian government step in and, as they see it, level the playing field by mandating that streaming services operating in Canada contribute to
America — what the F? Watching election returns Tuesday night was the worst television show of the year. Never have I seen so many deers in the headlights sitting behind news desks. The madness of trying to process the Divided States falling deeper into hell was so not in the script at CNN, CBS, NBC,
Talk about voter suppression! For some reason, the data service Numeris doesn’t include CNN in its weekly English Canada Top 30 total ratings reports. (Odd, because they track them in their daily overnight estimates.) If they did, the U.S. news network’s coverage of the second (and final) presidential debate Oct. 22 would have shown that
I was doing my usual monthly TV report Monday on the Humble & Fred Radio Show when co-host “Humble” Howard Glassman asked if I had seen The Queen’s Gambit. Howard seems to see all the shows I should be watching, so I thought I’d better have a gander. Glassman warned it was slow moving but
One of the stand-out second bananas on CTV’s JANN has been Elena Juatco. The Vancouver-native plays Jann Arden’s flinty, no-nonsense manager Cale. Like the super veggie she’s named after, Cale is supposedly good for you — but is sometimes hard to swallow. I reached Juatco by phone last week in Ottawa where she was shooting
This year, November is really September. All those network favourites postponed due to COVID and delayed due to strict safety protocols are finally back this month. We’re talking just about everything scripted: NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Blacklist, FBI, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: SVU and even sitcoms such as Young Sheldon and Mom and Canadian shows
Sean Connery — this was no time to die. I never met him, and I’m sure I would have remembered if I had. I do remember the first time I saw him on screen. It was at the long-gone Orangeville Drive-In north of Toronto. My parents knew the family who ran the outdoor theatre, including