Okay , say you’re Quebecor media czar Pierre Karl Peladeau. Whoops, I just vomited in my mouth. (Half full disclosure: I was once fired by Pierre Karl Peladeau.)Your crummy little Toronto TV station has never made a dime and lost an estimated $8.8 million last year. You’ve long since lost interest in the venture as
Turns out that the constant droning of those stoopid vuvuzelas haven’t driven every soccer fan away from the FIFA World Cup. CBC–fresh off a great Stanley Cup spring–had a very good soccer weekend, with 2,275,000 tuning in Saturday afternoon to watch England and U.S.A. battle to a draw. That’s the largest audience ever in Canadian
Have been invited on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 this afternoon to vent about this wacky new “Fox News North” venture. Seems the deep thinkers at Quebecor see an opportunity to launch a right wing specialty news service in Canada to help counter the supposed commie bias at CBC News and to help us all stop
Wolves are clawing their way into HBO’s bloody (and steamy) vampire drama True Blood. The third season began Sunday and the buzz has been building for months. Sold stories on it to Movie Entertainment magazine, Starweek and Sunday’s Toronto Star, including this profile of Joe Manganiello. He plays werewolf newcomer Alcide, assigned to protect Sookie
Changed the layout format here at TVFMF to accommodate larger vid clips. Test it out by viewing the trailer to Men With Brooms, a series coming to CBC this fall based on the Paul Gross curling feature. Me thinks this shows more potential as a TV show than as a theatrical.
Funding cuts, broken business models, end-of-the-world network scenarios be damned. Jonathan Torrens keeps making TV shows.The P.E.I. native is back with a second season of TV With TV’s Jonathan Torrens, returning Saturday night at 10:30 p.m. on TVTropolis.I’ve been writing about this guy since he was an apple-cheeked punk co-hosting CBC’s old kids for cash
The winning goal was a dud, but Patrick Kane and the Chicago Blackhawks overtime win over the Philadelphia Flyers was a winner for CBC. The Stanley Cup finale drew an overnight, estimated 4,077,000 Wednesday night. Nearly a million more watched the game on French language RDS , bringing the two network total to 5,074,000 in
I think I’m starting to see how CHML’s Scott Thompson does this. He reads my postings here and then he gets me all stirred up about stuff I wrote. Like the Canadian private network upfronts, which took place last week in Toronto. Why aren’t there more new Canadian scripted shows on Global, Roger and CTV