If you’ve been waiting for Season 2 of Transparent, wait no longer. All 10 new episodes dropped this weekend on Amazon Prime in the U.S. and UK and on shomi in Canada. The first new episode, “Kina Hora,” is a beaut. I wrote about what the series means to Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light, the
Everybody knows programming to tweens is the biggest crap shoot in television. Core TV viewers tend to be much older. The median age of the average NCIS viewer on CBS, for example, is north of 60. Even The Big Bang Theory has a median age viewer who is 50 years old. Viewers 12-24 are far
“Why O.J., why now?” FX communications boss and TCA ringmaster John Solberg anticipated and posed the question Monday night in New York. A crowd had gathered at the Paley Centre to preview the first two episodes of American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson. It has been more than 20 years since The Juice
Here it is, not even one week into December, and already broadcasters have aired the big four Christmas favourites: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The newest, The Grinch, first aired 49 years ago. “Wonderful Life” turns 80 next year. The good
CHML’s Scott Thompson starts off this week’s radio chat by asking about the Grey Cup numbers. The sports specialty network drew over four million viewers Sunday and while that is good it is below what rival Sportsnet was pulling with several of those Blue Jays playoff games in October. Grey Cup viewership was down on
Sunday’s 103rd Grey Cup game drew an overnight, estimated audience of over four million viewers on TSN. Some of those viewers, however, never saw the winning Edmonton Eskimos run a single play. That’s because about 25,000 people followed the game with audible descriptions as provided by Accessible Media, Inc. AMI-TV is a Toronto-based digital cable specialty
Jim Gaffigan says he’s proud to be doing the TV show he wants to do, which must be why he named it The Jim Gaffigan Show. The one-camera comedy stars Gaffigan as Gaffigan, a stand-up comedian who lives in New York with his wife and five children. Aside from the pilot (premiering Tuesday night at
Good grief! Has it really been 50 years since I first watched, along with millions of others, A Charlie Brown Christmas? I was already, at eight-years-old, Charlie Brown crazy. I would read the Peanuts comics in the Toronto Star every day and cut them out and paste them in a scrapbook. My mom would take