Sunday night’s 39th Annual American Music Awards drew an overnight, estimated 1.91 million viewers on CTV–its biggest audience in Canada in 10 years. Among those watching was TVFMF correspondent Kira Charron. She files this report. By KIRA CHARRON Female artists took the stage by storm at this year’s American Music Awards. The 39th annual celebration
The sun has now officially set on Toronto1/SUN TV. The CRTC Friday revoked the license as requested from TVA Group. Quebecor pretty much had to give up its broadcast window (Channel 15 in the GTA on Rogers) when they launched SUN News as a digital specialty service.The station launched Sept. 19, 2003 as Craig-owned Toronto
Friday morning at 9 a.m., Regis Philbin takes his final bow on Live! with Regis and Kelly. It has been a week-long love-in for Reege with salutes from his favourite guest, Don Rickles, former co-host Katie Lee Gifford, vice president Joe Biden and his No. 1 fan David Letterman.Letterman stopped by the Live! set Wednesday
Alison Brie and Donald Glover go into their Community dance Fourth place U.S. network NBC announced this week that, among other changes, they are shelving Community come the new year. Although there are promises that all 22 episodes commissioned this season will eventually be shown, things look grim beyond that for the low-rated sitcom.Which sucks.
Headed down to the TIFF Bell Lightbox last night to see Mike White. He’s the casually-dressed dude behind Enlightened, an original and hard-to-categorize comedy/drama airing Monday nights at 9 p.m. on HBO and HBO Canada.The series stars Laura Dern as a woman who cracks up at work, gets new age counseling and tries to rebuild
From The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: President Obama is in Australia. When he’s in Australia, his approval ratings go down the toilet in a counter-clockwise motion.
Scott Thompson at CHML thinks it is hilarious that I tried figure skating on Battle of the Blades. As Scott says, I look like Linus being pulled around by my blanket. Hey, I’ll try anything once, especially if Marie-France Dubreuil is coaching. You can listen in on the radio conversation here, and you can watch
It’s so rare when things work out in such a common sense way in Canadian television that I’m not even sure this is real. Yet everyone I just interviewed for the hurry up CP story says its true–Murdoch Mysteries has been saved.The Canadian historical drama, readers here will recall, was set to be phased out