…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,
Fox is betting you’re going to fall in love with their New Girl this fall, Zooey Deschanel. The clip they showed at Monday’s upfront–which we’d love to embed here but it is geoblocked to Canada–got a great response from advertisers. The pilot shows a girl dumped by her boyfriend who needs an apartment and winds up
There is a lot of “Yabba dabba don’t” in the Twittersphere greeting news that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has been given the green light to reboot The Flintstones. Word broke first on Deadline and Fox president Kevin Reilly made it official Monday in New York at the network upfront.The new animated series will go into