New American Idol winner Scotty McCreery Oprah Winfrey’s grand finale drew an overnight, estimated 1.6 million viewers to CTV Wednesday in Canada, a record for the series according to the network. The daytime talk show drew two and a half times its season average Wednesday and was the second highest non-sports draw night or day on any network
Is Oprah getting a ratings boost as her daytime talk show heads into Wednesday’s finale? It is in the States where Monday’s arena love-in drew the second-largest viewing audience of the season (beaten only by the show where she revealed that she had a secret half sister). In Canada on CTV Oprah’s ratings were up
…from Friday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live: Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his career on hold. Either that or he’s putting Korea on hold. It’s hard to understand him.
Dropped by the CHML nerve centre this week to chat in studio with Scott Thompson. We yakked about Oprah and how Lady Gaga topped her on that annual Forbes list.Oprah’s not the only big name leaving the TV scene. Mary Hart has been flashing her million-dollar legs on Entertainment Tonight for more than a quarter
CBS Men Cryer, Jones and Kutcher: Winning? Aside from the showy move of parachuting Ashton Kutcher into Two and a Half Men, CBS seemed to play it safe Wednesday, announcing a fairly stand pat schedule. Only five fall shows were added to America’s most-watched schedule, and none seemed to reach past the tried and true CBS formula: procedural
The Vancouver Canucks (3.5 mil vs. Sharks Sunday), The Big Bang Theory and Boston Rob’s victorious swan song on Survivor: Redemption Island (2,920,000 viewers on Global) made the Top 3 shows in Canada last week according to overnight estimates. There was good news, too, for Flashpoint, Doctor Who and Canada’s Worst Handyman. Check out the complete weekly ratings
Tune in to CHCH Wednesday at 5:30 ET as TV Feeds My Family drops in on my old pals Mark Hebscher and Lawrence Diskin for another Square Off. Today’s TV talk is about Oprah Winfrey. Apparently she’s leaving her show. She could have given us some heads up.Winfrey’s last episode of her syndicated daytime talk show
Remember all that talk of broken business models, junking stations and fading to black unless Ottawa forces big cable to Save Local TV? Seems so quaint, so very 2009, doesn`t it now?Well screw the CRTC. Canadian TV executives–who now work for Canadian cable companies–are once again in LA with freshly filled bags of money to throw at Warners,