Friday night’s Canada for Haiti telethon special was a big success, both as a fundraiser and as an audience grabber. Monday’s joint network release states that the special drew almost 2.4 million viewers across several networks, including CBC, CTV Global, Citytv, MuchMusic and even CP24 (according to BBM Canada overnight estimates).Better yet, Canadians contributed generously
Rob Salem calls it the semi-annual “Frostbacks” story. It is a summing up of the most recent press tour by rounding up all the Canadians who were trotted out before critics. You can find my latest take on the Hollywood Canucks here today in the Toronto Star.Was quite impressed with Tyler Labine this press tour.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien went out the same way it came in seven months ago–with class, delight and plenty of laughs.O’Brien has been on fire the last few weeks, seizing his final shows and driving The Tonight Show to a “Must See” level NBC hasn’t seen in years.O’Brien opened his Friday finale by
This is beyond brilliant: Jimmy Kimmel’s take on the Conan/Leno war as seen through the eyes of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Thank you, Jeff Zucker, for this golden age of late night comedy. From Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, an ABC series that airs in the Toronto market at midnight on Sun TV.When the dust
Wednesday is proving to be a crowded night to bust out of for the Republic of Doyle. The new CBC P.I. drama, starring Allan Hawco and Sean McGinley, left), is in tough up against a powerful night of established hits on CTV.Republic of Doyle arrested an overnight, estimated 685,000 viewers Wednesday night, down from 715,000
CHML’s Scott Thompson wants to de-brief now that another press tour is in the books. Topics include, or course, those two TCA titans, Conan and Cowell. Scott also wants to know if Pee-wee’s Playhouse might make a TV comeback now that a revival of Paul Reuben’s play is packing them in in LA. If Scott
Finally, it all makes sense thanks to this hilarious Hong Kong News animated interpretation of NBC’s screw up in late night. O’Brien jumped all over this on Tuesday night’s show, another outstanding hour as O’Brien continues to go out in a blaze of glory. “Hello, I’m Conan O’Brien,” he began Tuesday’s show, “and I’m just
Want to get a snapshot of media today hot off the critics’ press tour? The Broadcast Research Council of Canada has asked me to speak Thursday at their mid-season TV review. I’ll be sharing stories of all the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno/NBC intrigue which dominated the 10 day press tour, which concluded Monday with Hollywood set