How did Little Mosque on the Prairie and Sophie do year-to-year? With last night’s season finale numbers in (as overnight estimates, at least), here is a quick comparison.All that cliffhanger wedding promotion paid off as Little Mosque enjoyed by far its biggest audience of the season, 830,000 2+ viewers (all numbers BBM Canada). Sophie has
It’s been a stellar season for Rick Mercer and the gang over at the Rick Mercer Report. Episodes featuring Don Cherry, Hazel McCallion and Nancy Green vaulted the comedy showcase over and around the 1.2 million viewer mark, ranking it as the network’s top-rated entertainment series again this season.Tonight, Rick gets his rocks off with
UPDATED: Friday was the first day of spring, a great day to be in the “greatest city in the world,” as they say each night on Letterman, New York City. Had some time to kill while waiting to head to the set of Rescue Me (see previous post), so did the usual midtown walkabout.A favorite
Spent Friday in New York on the set of one of my favorite shows on TV, Rescue Me. The scorching, New York firehouse black comedy is produced on a sound stage in Queens, N.Y. Rescue Me has been off air for a year-and-a-half due to the writers strike and is roaring back for a sixth
SYRACUSE, N.Y.–Cinefest wraps up today with a few more surprises–although the biggest bomb was dropped last night outside the screening room.One of the regulars here, an ad sales veteran who has worked in broadcast television for years, happened to mention how hard the economy has hammered local New York TV stations. Case in point: the
Catching up from beautiful downtown Liverpool, N.Y., home of Cinefest 29. People here are buzzed about the Syracuse Orangemen in the March Madness B-ball tourney, president Obama on Leno tonight and a bunch of old films from the `20s and `30s–pretty much in that order.The big gem from the floor of the Liverpool Holiday Inn
Hitting the road for the rest of the week to attend Cinefest 29 in beautiful downtown Liverpool N.Y. This is geek paradise for 16mm film collectors, with wall-to-wall film screenings over the next four days. On the bill: The Lady Who Dared (1931), with Billie Dove, The Darkening Trail (1915) with William S. Hart and,
We asked and you answered. A record 136 readers voted in the latest TVFMF poll, which asked, “Should Geri Hall‘s ‘Single Female Voter’ stop crashing political press conferences on This Hour Has 22 Minutes?”An overwhelming 83% of you said, go Geri, go, keep gooning politicians. Just 16% said cut it out.This Hour Has 22 Minutes