UPDATED with Friday and Saturday and also Sunday network numbers. That Jeopardy IBM infomerical was a hit (featuring Alex Trebek, Ken Jennings, Watson and Brad Rutter, above), topping two million viewers per day on CBC over the three-day challenge. Look for Jennings, Watson and Rutter next season on Survivor: Deduction Island.Two and a Half Men, Survivor,
The Chicago Code’s Jennifer Beals: arresting Holy crap! They pack a lot of action into The Chicago Code. I’m trying to blog about it and watch it at the same time. Can’t be done, so I’m typing during the commercials The mid-season Fox police drama is from Shawn Ryan, the impressive writer/executive producer behind The Shield
It’s “Family Day” (at least in Ontario), so time for a second or third look at the CBC family sitcom 18 to Life. The 8:30 p.m. comedy has been lost on Monday nights, slumping in the ratings opposite House and import comedies on CTV. CBC left it off its recent list of renewals and its
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to know what a lot of us want to know: what the hell’s up with Charlie Sheen? The 45-year-old actor is no lock to make 46 after a widely-reported string of William Holden weekends. The Two and a Half Men star’s party boy behaviour finally forced his studio and network to force him into
Watson (left) with Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek What is through the roof? The answer would be ratings for Jeopardy!The three day match up of man vs. machine, which concludes Wednesday, has sent the numbers for the 27-year-old quiz show into orbit. Monday’s supper hour offering drew 1,862,000 viewers to CBC, among the public network’s biggest non-hockey
Lorre (left) with Sheen at a past TCA session Sure he’s super rich, but you’ve got to feel for Chuck Lorre. He is this generation’s Norman Lear, the current King of TV comedy, the writer/producer behind The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men and Mike & Molly, but at what price? As a writer/showrunner on Cybill,
My dad used to have a shaving brush just like that The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards was the top show of the week with an overnight, estimated average audience of 3,258,000 viewers Sunday night on Global. February is a busy month of Sunday blockbusters, with CTV scoring huge numbers for last week’s Super Bowl and
Chuck: saved by Sepinwall? Interesting story in Salon this week suggesting fellow TV critic Alan Sepinwall and others are changing the conversation when it comes to TV criticism. Sepinwall, formerly at the New Jersey Leader-Post and now at HitFix.com, has for years issued lightening fast analysis of weekly episodes of everything from The Sopranos to How I