Here I am, hard at work at The Office. As in the set of The Office, the NBC comedy that returned for a sixth season tonight and heads into a five-nights-a-week syndication launch starting Monday.Critics were invited to visit the set last month during the summer network press tour. We were shuttled from our hotel
CBC threw a fall launch today at their Toronto bunker and damn if it wasn’t a first class operation. The public network and their PR agency, Media Profile, invited press types up to studio 41 on the 10th floor. That’s the home this season of The Ron James Show, which premieres a week from Friday
More Leno chat today with Scott Thompson on Hamilton Talk Radio CHML. You can listen in here.I make the point again that Leno’s new show has a weird daytime vibe about it. That sit down in the Principal’s office with Kanye West Monday didn’t help–it seemed more like an episode of The View.Still, that touchy-feely
Jay Leno killed in Canada, too. Monday’s opener scored 1,469,000 viewers nationally, easily winning its timeslot for the night–and, as a Citytv show, on far fewer stations across the country than the competition. CTV’s CSI: Miami repeat drew 1,018,000 at 10, CBC’s National News snagged 474,000 and a repeat of the premiere of Global’s new
No joke: Jay Leno stormed back last night with a vengeance.An overnight, estimated audience of 17.66 million tuned in to see him chat with Jerry Seinfeld and basically make Kanye West squirm. The comedian’s 10 p.m. premiere smoked the competition, not surprising given he was up against repeats on CBS (although there was a Monday
It all begins tonight: The Jay Leno Show (NBC and Citytv, 10 p.m.).NBC’s 10 p.m. comedy conversion was all the radio guys want to talk about today. Was on with MacArthur in the Morning on London, Ont.’s The Hawk (103.9 FM), my buddy Mike Miller at Lima, Ohio’s News Talk 1150 WIMA and several CBC
Last June at Canwest’s muted upfront for advertisers, programming boss Barb Williams proudly announced a bold move: pulling two of her 10 o’clock imports out of simulcast to try and manage a little more flow to her schedule.Although Canadian programmers are normally loath to give up a simulcast (and all the stray U.S. affiliate eyeballs
There’s something funny about the fact that Larry Gelbart died on Sept. 11. His best work spoke to all that was right and wrong about America, no punches pulled. Gelbart, who died Friday at 81 after a brief battle with cancer, was part of that golden circle of writers who worked on Sid Caesar’s TV