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
Remember all that nonsense about Donald Trump running for president? The Donald put the rumours to rest today in New York at NBC’s annual upfront for advertisers, officially declaring himself out of the race. “I will not be running for President, as much as I’d like to,” he told the crowd gathered at the Hilton
Global is teaming with NBC on another one of those cross border crime dramas. The Firm, from Entertainment One (Rookie Blue), is an update of the John Grisham best seller. No cast has been announced yet for the 2011-12 mid-season drama, but it will be shot in Toronto so presumably there`ll be some Canucks. Here`s
Zooey Deschannel stars as the New Girl on Fox Did you know Raising Hope was the No. 1 new scripted U.S. network series among young adults? That was one of the tidbits thrown out during Fox’s conference call with critics Monday morning. The network, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next spring, is on a
NBC UPFRONT PART TWO: Still smarting from that whole Leno at 10 fiasco, NBC has plenty of problems with the back end of its schedule. New dramas Chase and The Event were rejected last season. Friday Night Lights is no more. The whole Law & Order franchise seems to be on its last legs.Among the new hopefuls
NBC prepares to host its upfront to advertisers in New York NBC got a jump start on upfront season by spilling their new 2011-12 schedule on Sunday. Gone are bubble shows Outsourced (a TVFMF favourite) and The Defenders. Back for a final 13-episode fall arc is a show you can’t kill with a stick, Chuck. NBC