Little Mosque: hockey proof Hey, I’ve been wrong before. The trio of CBC Monday debuts held their own against the World Junior Hockey Championships semi-final. Little Mosque on the Prairie returned at 8 p.m. with a robust 593,000 viewers, followed by the second season premiere of 18 to Life at 436,000 and the new reality show Village
Jaffer (left) and Coach: Their purple moment Talk about harsh reality. Murtz Jaffer’s Reality Obsessed returns to TVTropolis tonight for a third season–smack opposite the finals of the World Junior Hockey Championships.As noted here before, the WJHC, especially with Canada in the final (facing Russia), is the Death Star of Canadian TV, crushing everything in
Sutherland senior: where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? With The Tudors done beheading all of Henry’s wives, CBC gets back into the historical epic game with The Pillars of the Earth. The 10-hour miniseries begins tonight at 9 p.m.I wrote a feature last week on Pillars for The Canadian Press, you can read that
A moment of silence, please, for Little Mosque, 18 to Life and Village on a Diet. CBC’s worst nightmare came true as the Canadian juniors will square off against the United States tonight in a semi-final rematch of last year’s final of the World Junior Hockey Championships.Last year’s junior hockey final was the Death Star of Canadian
Oprah Winfrey is about to OWN Canada.That’s the buzz as her new network, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) launches tonight at midnight on cable in the United States. Canadians are going to have to wait a while as Corus owns the rights and plans to preview it for a few months on W before re-branding VIVA as
Clear the runway–the Air Farce is back for another New Year’s Eve special. All seven members of the comedy troupe–including originals Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson and Luba Goy–are back this year for the one hour special, which airs at 8 p.m. and again at midnight. I attended night two of the taping earlier this month and
Really? You care about ratings this week? Tons of pre-emptions and Christmas programming rendered the usual Monday to Sunday recap pointless. Nevertheless, a few numbers pop out:Sunday’s opening game in the WJHC: 2.94 million viewers on TSN. The Canada-Russia tilt was up 23% from last year’s already lofty hockey numbers.George Stroumboulopoulos’ The Hour I’ll Never
Anybody want to buy a vowel? Could there be a more telling sign of the sea change in the Canadian TV biz than the painting over of the letters “C, T and Vey” outside Bistro 990? For years, the cozy Bay Street bistro was a favourite haunt of CTV power wielder Ivan Fecan. As 2010 comes to a close, the Fecan