Having a Canadian team in an important championship final does make a huge difference, audience-wise. The first two games of the 2025 World Series show the Toronto Blue Jays/Los Angeles Dodgers final round averaging over six million viewers in Canada after a two game home split in Toronto. Imagine, Rogers Sports and Media execs must
Who is this lawyer writing and producing hit medical dramas? He is David Shore, who got his start in Canada writing for Traders before crossing the border as a writer-producer on The Practice and Law & Order. Besides his hits he was involved with a few great misses, including EZ Streets, a short-lived series that was HBO before HBO, and two
I took this photograph of June Lockhart in 2001 — nearly a quarter century ago. The actress and several of her colleagues from the sci-fi series Lost in Space (1965-68) gathered at a Television Critics Association press tour that summer at what was then the Ritz Carlton Hunnington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. If you were
Hard on the heels of the excellent documentary John Candy: I Like Me comes another moving film about comedy performers. The first was co-executive produced by Candy’s two adult children. This one is directed by a famous son, Ben Stiller. His film, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, premieres Friday October 24 on AppleTV. Now,
Johnny Carson was born on this days a century ago. One hundred years ago?! You are correct, sir. The Emmy and Peabody award-winning entertainer died in 2005 at age 79. In 30 years as host of The Tonight Show, Carson presided over over 4500 episodes, interviewing over 25,000 guests. From 1962 to 1992 he was
The victory that put the Toronto Blue Jays into their first World Series in 32 years was also a big win for Sportnet. The Rogers’ specialty channel issued a release Tuesday claiming that the Game 7 victory over the Seattle Mariners was the most-watched Blue Jays game ever. The American League Championship clincher was watched
An overnight, estimated 4,385,000 Sportsnet National specialty viewers watched Sunday night’s game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. The Jays’ 6-2 victory staved off elimination and forced tonight’s seventh and deciding game, which will also be played at the Rogers Cenre in Toronto. Sportsnet’s half-hour pre-game show drew an average minute audience
Twelve years after their storyline wrapped on NCIS, Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly have reunited as their crowd-pleasing characters on NCIS: Tony & Ziva. As executive producers of this series, the two actors had a say as to where this series would be shot, and they picked Europe — smart move if you’re going