Brandon Tartikoff — last century’s John Landgraf — once said that TV ratings had become the box score of the ’90s. I’ve made a career buying in to that. There was a time when I tweeted out overnight TV ratings estimates every single day. I also wrote weekly ratings columns for a couple of years
As the clipboard above indicates, Keshia Chanté guest stars tonight on the comedy JANN. “Last Straws,” the second episode of Season Two, airs at 8/7c on CTV. She plays a young, up-and-coming pop star who runs into Jann Arden’s character at a charity event. “She’s so brilliant,” says Arden, who raves about the singer this
Fargo returns Sunday for a fourth season — two-and-a-half years since the premiere of Season Three. That’s a lot of time in television. Things have changed; several major streaming services have launched since then, and one of those has already changed names. The hold up was creator/writer/executive producer Noah Hawley, who got busy with other
Paris Hilton turns 40 in February. This will shake some of us who remember her as the “celebutante” who never heard of Wal-Mart. She said things such as, “That’s hot!” a lot at the start of the century on a momentary object of fascination known as The Simple Life. She has stuck around and made
Why is sitcom star Jann Arden talking to me at BriouxTV: The Podcast? “Because you swiped right, Bill,” she teases. Arden’s back with a second season of her CTV comedy JANN (airing Monday nights at 8/7c on CTV). The eight new episodes were shot nearly a year ago, well before the coronavirus shut down TV and movie sets. That’s
It’s officially fall, and there are, believe it or not, a few new network TV shows trickling onto TV screens this season. Tonight, Fox and CTV will get a boost from the return of The Masked Singer. The fourth season begins Wednesday night at 8/7c. It threatens to be as ridiculous and popular as it
No Schitts, Sherlock: the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was a much bigger hit in Canada than in the US. Overnight estimates Sunday show CTV drew 1,584,000 for the three-hour “PandEmmy” broadcast, making it by far the top draw of the night in Canada. On CTV alone, The Emmys drew three times the audience Sunday
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the second season premiere of Jann, which returned Monday on CTV, you may want to read no further. Or, what the heck, keep reading. What follows does not really give away any spoilers — unless you’re shocked to learn that this comedy comes no holds barred. Season Two picks