News that “Kustom” car king George Barris is auctioning off his original Batmobile had me reaching for my own moment of bat-glory. A roly poly Burt Ward–looking more like The Penguin–and a well preserved Adam West were at a TCA press tour in 2003 to promote the CBS reunion TV-movie Return to the Batcave: The
It figured with Global planning to launch Big Brother Canada that CTV would get into the race. The Amazing Race Canada was officially announced Sunday night on a CTV station break by Phil Keoghan. The series will commence in the summer of 2013, with contestants racing, not around the world as in The Amazing Race, but
A few weeks ago I was in Victoria, B.C. for the taping of a show that airs tonight: The Bachelor Canada’s “After the Final Rose.” A reason for me to watch will be to see how much of what I saw at the taping will be left out of tonight’s broadcast (9:30 p.m. ET on
Was nice to see the non-Olympian win the All Star season on Dancing with the Stars. Former Bachelor reality star Melissa Rycroft and partner Tony Dovolani took the Mirror Ball trophy in Tuesday night’s two-hour finale. The ex-Dallas Cowboys cheerleader peaked at the right time and beat out Olympic gold medal gymnast and former DWTS
TSN scored a touchdown with Sunday’s Grey Cup coverage, with an overnight, estimated average audience of 5,478,000 viewers.That’s a record for Cup coverage on TSN. The 2009 Grey Cup thriller swelled to over 5 million viewers on TSN, but that was back when the Portable People Meters were first introduced. Those “ratings ‘roids,” as I
Unlike the Stanley Cup, the Grey Cup hasall the names of all the teams from everyyear inscribed on those silver plates Will Sunday’s 100th Grey Cup be the most-watched CFL championship broadcast ever? The game, which begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on TSN, will have to surpass the 5 million-plus total TSN fetched for their
Hagman: the brim kept getting bigger to extend past his eyebrows It was just about a year ago, in January of 2012, when Larry Hagman faced television critics as a group for the final time. The TV icon passed away Friday at 81 of complications from cancer. He was battered but unbowed, thin from the
VANCOUVER–Once Upon a Time, it was easier to get on to a sound stage in Vancouver–and then along came Once Upon a Time.The Sunday night ABC/CTV drama shoots next to the upcoming CTV “howdunnit” Motive, so the CTV publicity team went knocking on doors to see if a gaggle of Canadian journos could bust into