Tonight’s season two premiere of CBC’s Battle of the Blades is a bit of a free skate. There’s no actual competition, with tonight’s show more of an hour long introduction of the eight ex-NHLers and eight female figure skating champions taking part in this season’s competition. I had a sneak peak of the hour Friday
Everyone needs a good Polkaroo every now and then. Which brings us to Sunday’s “Word on the Street” festival in Toronto, where TVOntario children’s icon Polkaroo (right with unidentified TV critic) will be on the prowl. The colourful Polka Dot Door mascot is helping to kick off the Ontario educational broadcaster’s 40th anniversary and bring
The Big Bang Theory roared back Thursday night on CTV, drawing an overnight, estimated 3.1 million-plus viewers across Canada. All those billboards and bus shelter ads paid off. CTV says that’s the biggest Canadian TV audience for a sitcom since the finale of Friends. CTV had a monster night thanks to Thursday imports that do better in Canada
Fridays used to be where shows went to die. Not this year, with both ABC and Fox launching new shows with big names into a night CBS never gave up on. Tom Selleck, Jimmy Smits and Dana Delany all headline Friday night launches this fall. Read more about the Friday revival at this story I
First Ivan Fecan, now Jeff Zucker. Bill Carter at the New York Times has the scoop on the departure of Zucker, the former Today Show producer wunderkind who went on to become the top NBC Universal executive. While not a complete surprise–Comcast is in the process of acquiring the broadcast and cable giant and that usually means
Ratings results from Night Three of Fall Launch Week: CTV had the biggest draw of the night with the stronger-in-Canada forensic cop drama Criminal Minds. The CBS series, starring Thomas Gibson (left), drew an overnight, estimated 2,639,000 viewers. That was followed at 10 p.m. by the debut of the new Jim Belushi Vegas romp The Defenders, which rolled
BIG FAT CORRECTION: Global doesn’t have Canadian rights to Keri Russell‘s new Fox comedy Running Wilde as I erroneously reported here earlier today. The series, which also stars Will Arnett, is available on new-to-Canada Netflix as I reported Wednesday. Maybe I should read my own copy! You’d almost think I made this crummy mistake on purpose just
My son came home from high school today and said his English teacher nailed him on his first essay assignment of the year. Seems he strayed a tad off topic.I told him I did the same thing last week with a story I had recently been assigned at a newspaper. I was asked to deliver