Tonight marks the season finales of the Rick Mercer Report and 22 Minutes, two Canadian shows Canadians would actually miss if CBC was in a position to pull content in the upcoming 2010 Cable Wars. (Read more about the 22 Minutes finale here in a piece I wrote last week for The Canadian Press).Canadians would
The CRTC did what many expected today–threw the fee-for-carriage hand grenade back into the network/cable bunkers and challenged them to play nice and work things out.Under the heading “Value of Local programming” the new ruling sets out to find “a market-based solution to allow private local television stations to negotiate with cable and satellite companies”
Today, Monday, March 22, is D-day in the fee for carriage debate. The CRTC is expected to issue a statement this afternoon indicating its decision on whether it will allow historically free-to-air broadcasters CBC, CTV, Global and Citytv to charge cable and satellite companies a fee to distribute their signals. A media war played out
Good move, CBC, ordering a full 20 episodes of Dragon’s Den this season. As the network noted today in a release, the venture capitalist reality series (featuring Kevin O’Leary, left) drew 1,956,000 viewers for its combined fourth and fifth season finale Wednesday night, according to the usual BBM Canada overnight PPM estimates.The “Road to Riches”
On this week’s podcast, CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to know about my recent trip to Los Angeles to cover the Warner Bros. International TV press tour. The big lesson for me was how excited some members of the foreign press were about shows that are off my radar here, such as Supernatural–which is apparently quite
It’s curious how the most interesting guests on late night talk shows these days are other late night talk show hosts. Jimmy Kimmel guested on Letterman Tuesday night and the two talked about, as Letterman called it, the whole “Jay Leno scandal.” Always the truth teller, Kimmel teased Letterman for that CBS Super Bowl promotion
At TV Feeds My Family, we have a saying—if it’s free it’s for me. TVFMF is teaming up with Rogers On Demand On-line for a March Break family pack contest. The folks at Rogers have launched a special March Break Channel and they want the kids at your house to check it out here. They’ve
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.–Do you believe in miracles? Joel Gretsch (right) probably does. Not just because he plays a priest on TV. He’s Father Jack on V, which returns with the first of eight new episodes March 30 on ABC (moving from CTV to A on the same date).Gretsch joined cast members Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut,