What is curious, Alex? That would be how Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune wound up at CHCH, where they’ll premiere in Canada next September. CBC paid big bucks to import the two long-running CBS Paramount International Television gamers, which they began airing in 2008. Jeopardy! in particular consistently delivered million-plus audiences weeknights from 7:30 to 8
Shatner is arrested for hamming up the season premiere of Rookie Blue Yes, we took last week off. Yes, we’re late this week. What can I say. Summer intern wanted. Canadian TV shows like Rookie Blue and The Listener are back and hockey is still being played—summer must be around the corner. New episodes of
The stars of Saving Hope. Paging Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard… CTV sent a prescription along with their screener for tonight’s premiere episode of Saving Hope (9 p.m.). “Apply one dose of Saving Hope to dilated pupils,” it advised.It might help to already have pupils dilated from recreational drugs to best enjoy tonight’s episode. The series
Bisson (left), Brioux (middle) and some guy with lines Yes, the long wait is over. Tonight’s the night I make my big debut on Murdoch Mysteries.It’s a buddy picture, really, me and Yannick Bisson, way up in Dawson City in the Yukon, panning for blogger gold.Bisson’s hardly in it, really. Sure, they give him lines,
This week on CHML, Scott Thompson wants to know all about dear, departed Dickie Dawson, who passed away Saturday at 79. I confess I used to race home from school in the ’70s just to see Dawson and his pals try to recover from their six martini lunches on Match Game. Always entertaining. It’s not
Mainse poses with a statue of Jesus washing one ofthe disciples’ feet in the foyer of his Crossroads HQ Although we here at TV Feeds My Family tend to deify people like Leslie Moonves or Mark Burnett, television is by in large a Godless business. Indeed, spend a few minutes on E! or any of
Dawson hosted Family Feud from 1976-’85 and later in ’94-’95 “His mind worked like a steel trap, but he wasn’t the happiest man in the world.” That was Betty White’s assessment of Richard Dawson, who died Saturday at 79. Popular with audiences and contestants for his almost uncanny ability to match words, the Family Feud
Arrow‘s Stephen Amell will help CTV pull up its socks These Canadian network upfronts are micro-managed to within an inch of their lives. Studio publicists sit on stacks of screeners as well as talent releases for fear a Canadian journalist might be prepared for an interview, or, worse, stumble on any actual news.Despite these stubbornly