I’ve watched a lot of U.S. presidential debates over the years. Tuesday night’s, however, was a bigger Schitt show than last week’s Emmy awards. It was one of the first times I was glad to be live Tweeting because it meant I could take my eyes off the screen. Usually you’re looking for a knock
Not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s an election coming up in the United States. There’s even a debate featuring two presidential candidates happening Tuesday night. The November 3 presidential election has been an ugly, partisan pissing match for, what, almost four years it seems. Therefore it’s nice to see something with a little civility
Some points to ponder as we look at the Numeris’ Top 30 Programs in English Canada for the week of Sept. 14 – 20: Canada loved the Emmys. CTV’s broadcast of the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was ranked No. 1 for the week with 1,662,000 total (Live+7) viewers. It was Canada’s Emmys after all,
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