Elvis Costello has said this season of Spectacle will be his last. Too busy, he reports, although CTV is probably OK with that. Friday’s second season premiere, featuring U2, drew just 350,000 viewers.Costello got run over by Santa’s sleigh over at CBC, where 1,351,000 were watching The Santa Clause 2 according to overnight estimates from
With all the noises over at Letterman and Leno this fall, Conan O’Brien has quietly been cranking out the funniest hour in late night. Check out Friday’s surprise Tonight Show appearance by frequent target Sarah Palin:A great example of how O’Brien can take a joke in any direction. I sat in O’Brien’s studio audience last
Fan of vintage late night talk shows? Here’s one you may have missed: The Dick Rossi Show: Jimmy Kimmel Interview – watch more funny videos Jimmy Kimmel sure is a good sport. The Dick Rossi Show is up over at Funny or Die, check out all three clips (especially “The Amazing Marco,” it really is
New Year’s came early–and Christmas too–for fans of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. The retired comedy troupe reunited for two performances this past Thursday and Friday nights in Toronto. The occasion was a taping of the 17th annual Air Farce New Year’s Eve special, airing Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. and repeated again at midnight
That Glee mid-season finale drew 1,583,000 Wednesday night, according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. Global rushed out a release saying it was the only new series to rank within the national Top-10 in the 18-49 demo. In total Canadian households, however, it probably ranks fourth overall in the rookie pecking order so far this season
This week’s CHML podcast runs the gamut from Tiger tales to Glee. Scott Thompson thinks the press should stop hounding Tiger Woods to come clean. I’m thinkin’ that’s never going to happen. You can listen in here.The Glee talk surrounds Wednesday night’s fall season finale. If you haven’t screened it yet, RUN AND HIDE: SPOILER
513,000. That was Being Erica’s teetering take for Tuesday’s second season finale. Will it be enough to bring her back through that green door for a third season?Hard to imagine CBC abandoning Erica after all the hype and expectations. Just last January, when it launched, the series was the network darling, the big export, the
Caught the season finale of Being Erica Tuesday night. Some thoughts.Had bailed on Erica (played by Erin Karpluk) three or four episodes into this season–the girl and the show were both really starting to bug me. (Although I did check back in for the jump-the-shark bad hair episode, when Karpluk was forced to wear a