Tonight begins the first of three Jeopardy! episodes where two human contestants battle a blank, passionless machine. It’s sort of like a preview to the upcoming Canadian federal election leader’s debate, except that would be three blanks and a Bloc.Ken Jennings, who had that 74-game winning streak six seasons ago, and all-time Jeopardy! champ Brad
22 Minutes. The show’s back, but look for cast changes Shh–it’s Friday, a good day to slip the following release into mailboxes: “CBC Television announced 17 returning shows for the 2011-2012 season.” Some are no brainers–Dragon’s Den, Battle of the Blades and The Rick Mercer Report are all hits, as is Sunday drama Heartland and Wednesday’s Republic
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted my take on CTV’s Super Bowl broadcast. “Could we have seen any more promos for Flashpoint?” Scott asks. He also wondered about that half time show. We both agreed Will.I.am’s plastic Devo head was a nice touch.The two of us also yak about the Super Bowl ads and why they’re so
Boyce (right) with Dan for Mayor’s Ewanuick As predicted here last December, CTV programming boss Susanne Boyce will follow CEO Ivan Fecan out the door as Bell completes its housecleaning prior to the takeover of the network in March. Boyce’s departure and several other top executive moves were announced to the troops Tuesday in Toronto.
Once again, the big CTV marketing machine jacked a show over the two million mark in Canada. Too bad it was on Global.CTV`s record Super Bowl audience was hit with dozens of Fox network nods to their after-the-game goodie, a supersized Glee episode. CTV`s attempts to get viewers to stick around for Flashpoint after the game
CTV scored a touchdown with Sunday`s Super Bowl XLV, scoring an overnight, estimated audience of 6,537,000 viewers. That`s up from last year`s record overnight tally of 6,025,000, also on CTV.The pre-and post- Super Bowl spots were also huge for CTV, with 4,377,000 and 4,517,000 tuning in to each (although the post show trophy presentation, which CTV barely
Did you watch the Super Bowl on CTV Sunday night? The Canadian network blocked the much-hyped U.S. commercials and punted away the second the Vince Lombardi trophy was placed in the hands of the owner of the Green Bay Packers. CTV was probably fed up running Fox promos for that Glee after show carried in
Smooch stars Martin (left) and Shipka The Hallmark Channel is famous at press tour for bringing critics face to face with some of the stars of the past. Those of us who grew up watching Ernest Borgnine as the skipper of McHale’s Navy or the great Dick Van Dyke can’t get enough of these Hallmark moments. We