The first round of the NHL hockey playoffs is giving some of Canada’s regularly scheduled programs hiccups.In particular, the new Monday night at 8 CTV sitcom pair Hiccups and Dan For Mayor were bodychecked down to series lows opposite playoff games on two other channels. Monday’s BBM Canada overnight estimates saw both Hiccups and Dan
Last Wednesday, as if to show it is still daddy, the CRTC denied CBC’s application to reformat its rural-themed specialty channel Bold–something CBC went ahead and did two years ago.A license for the service was granted in 2000 for what CBC then called Land and Sea. It was supposed to be a service for rural
Priests have been getting a lot of bad press lately. As Bill Maher said the other night on Real Time about the Pope, “You know your reign’s been tainted when you long for the days when people just thought you were a Nazi.”Which sort of brings us to this story I wrote for The Canadian
Tonight is the “Madonna” episode of Glee, a hot topic during my weekly chat with Lima, Ohio morning man Mike Miller at WIMA. The Clear Channel station is broadcast out of the very city where Glee is supposed to take place–Lima.They never hear the term “Lima loser” in Lima, one of a number of sore
Word is leaking out on CBC plans for the 2010-2011 season and budget woes continue to impact series runs. With ad revenues down sharply the year before, the public network nibbled last season, trimming an episode here, an episode there. This fall, without the “fee-for-carriage” bailout offered to Canada’s private networks by the CRTC (albeit
Gene Kiniski, who passed away April 14, 2010 at 81, was one of my all-time favourite interviews back when I was typing for The Toronto Sun. The hulking ring legend was helping to promote the series Wrestling With the Past on the Comedy Network when I caught up with him in 2001.I met Kiniski at
Scott Thompson is off this week at Hamilton’s CHML so I spoke with Jim Carriere, who seems to have missed all the fuss about Glee. I try to bring him up to speed, and also deconstruct Conan O’Brien’s surprise move to TBS and U.S. cable. Plenty of analysis pouring in on that shocker, including this
All that pom-pom waving seems to have paid off. Glee returned Tuesday night after a four month hiatus and enjoyed its biggest Canadian audience ever, with 2,120,000 tuning in according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Wednesday’s Global release claims Glee (featuring Naya Rivera, right) beat CTV’s American Idol in the 18-49-year-old demo nationally 1,268,300 to 1,049,600,