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Big Bangs, Dancers, Amazing Racers, Blades and CFL brawn were the big scorers this third week of November. Below are the overnight, 2+ estimates across Canada for the week of Nov. 15-21: Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas: You betcha MONDAY As Dancing with the Stars nears the end (the winner will be declared tonight on

Seconds before the ceremonial  trophy smashing Thanks to my pals at Insight Productions and CBC, I was able to enjoy an ice level view of Monday night’s Battle of the Blades finale. It was close enough to get a better sense of what this series is all about and where it has to go.Watching on television, the

Watch the full episode. See more American Masters. All we are saying, WNED, is give PBS’s network schedule a chance. Once again, the renegade Buffalo PBS affiliate has ditched the regular PBS network offering, which tonight is LENNONYC, a two hour American Masters documentary about John Lennon’s final decade. Slotted in instead Monday night at WNED is

Tonight at 8 p.m. on CBC, the winners on season two of Battle of the Blades will be chosen from among the three final pairs of contestants. Based on Sunday’s near flawless skate-offs, it’s a pick ’em finale between Shae-Lynn Bourne and Patrice Brisebois; Isabelle Brasseur and Todd Warriner (right); and Ekaterina Gordeeva and Valeri Bure.The

The No. 1 show by far this fall in Canada has been The Big Bang Theory. It tops three million viewers on CTV almost every week, last Thursday pulling 3.3 million viewers.So, if you’re CTV, what do you do now that Fox has moved American Idol to Wednesday and Thursday nights?Fox Announced Friday that Idol–re-booted

You have to wonder about a network that is trying to get Canadian viewers up off their couches and into a fitter, healthier lifestyle. If the message gets through and this campaign succeeds, nobody will be watching television!CTV would never touch “Live Right Now,” the healthy lifestyle, multi-platform winter and spring cause CBC unveiled today

This week with CHML’s Scott Thompson we discuss Conan O’Brien (Scott feels his new TBS series is getting better and better), this U.S. cable net reality show contest to find new Glee students (to be added during the third season) and the screwy Gemini Awards broadcast. Just to recap, The Tudors, which stars an Irish actor and is

Trust Jimmy Kimmel to get right to it. The late night talk show host always has the latest losers from Dancing with the Stars on Jimmy Kimmel Live the night after the elimination and he got right into it with Brandy and her dance partner Maksim Chmerovskiy. Did they get screwed out of the finals