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
CFL on TSN panel Randorf, Schultz, Climie and Dunigan Hockey and football were both big stories this weekend (see Saturday and Sunday ratings) but neither could catch CTV’s The Big Bang Theory as Canada’s most-watched show. Here’s a look at the overnight 2+ prime time estimates across Canada for the week of Nov. 8 to
The 25th Annual Gemini Awards got slammed into the boards Saturday against a powerful all-Canadian match up on Hockey Night in Canada. The Canadian television industry salute, which was hosted by Glee Canuck Cory Monteith, managed 363,000 Saturday night on Global plus another 34,000 on Showcase for a combined total that fell under the 400,000 mark. Saturday’s HNiC
Not everyone at the Wintergarden Theatre in Toronto was blown away by Cory Monteith’s job as host of the Gemini Awards Saturday night. One eye witness compared it to when an NFL quarterback hosts Saturday Night Live.Still, there was Monteith, loving the moment, getting his picture taken with Elvis Costello immediately after the show and posting it
Cory Monteith can relax. He survived his gig hosting Saturday night’s Gemini Awards in Toronto without any major hiccups. The same could not be said, however, for the rest of the Canadian TV industry salute. A sweet, unplugged set by Elvis Costello, Ron Sexsmith and Feist half way through Saturday night’s award-fest was both the high
The final gala for the Gemini Awards is tonight (8 p.m. on Global and Showcase). The annual industry wank fest takes place in the atmospheric Wintergarden Theatre in downtown Toronto. Elvis Costello, whose already canceled talk-‘n’jam series Spectacle is–whatdayathink?–the winner in the Best Canadian talk show category, will be rocking the joint.Cory Monteith (left) is the