Monday morning, the newly-christened Rogers Sports & Media kicked off two days of Catch up, Up Front week in Canada. Catch up, Up Front –say it with me, you’ll get used to it. Things began at 9 a.m. with “Breakfast with Banks,” something all Canadian television executives have probably been doing the past 12 –
CTV gave reporters the heads up Wednesday that they’ll be hosting a virtual “Homefront” next Tuesday to unveil their plans for the 2020-21 season. Could one of their announcements be details on a possible Cardinal spinoff? That’s part of the speculation after comments made on social media by Cardinal star Billy Campbell. The Canadian Screen
Today, Paul McCartney turns 78. He’s still fab, even if he now sounds more like a 78 than a 33 and a third. A colleague — Will Harris of Virginia — just posted on Facebook about the time he asked Paul McCartney a question. It was at a 2011 Television Critics Association press tour session.
As it is with everything else, this is an unusual year for TV networks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing, the major US broadcasters had to cancel their pricey upfront launches in New York in May. Instead of talent and producers doing the annual ad market meet and greet — and in
One of the great elder statesmen of American broadcast news is coming to Canada. Following the retirement of Walter Cronkite in 1981, Dan Rather spent 24 years in the big chair as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Before that, he was CBS’s man in Dallas on the fateful day when U.S. president John F.
A quick look at the June 1 to June 7 Canada TV Top-30 finds that, when it comes to broadcast, Canadians are now watching newscasts or nothing. The Numeris Totals list, which ranks programs in English Canada and includes, “total,” Live+7 data, shows the supper hour CTV Evening News as the national’s most-watched program with
Over the years, one of the great attractions of the Banff World Media Festival was the opportunity to actually go there. The setting is stunning; straight out of a fairy tale. The magestic Fairmount Banff Springs Hotel set against mountains of evergreens is one of the great picture postcard sights in all of Canada. So
UPDATE: While most PBS stations around the U.S. ran this Independent Lens documentary as scheduled Monday, The Buffalo/Toronto PBS affiliate, WNED, did not. The good news for folks in that area is you haven’t missed it yet. WNED will air “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” on Sunday, June 21 at 11:00 pm and Friday, June