Craig Ferguson asked critics not to review Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which premiered in the wee hours last night, for 30 days. Not that he is the King of television or anything but that seems like a reasonable request, so I’m going to honor it. But I am going to weigh in with a
Funny business, this television. Almost daily, networks on both sides of the border are crying the blues about “business model being broken” and how the ad market has cratered. Days before CRTC license rulings, Global and CTV can’t sell those weak sister stations they paid billions for a few years ago fast enough. To paraphrase
Are you going to watch Jimmy Fallon tonight? The former SNL Weekend Update anchor launches Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at 12:35 a.m. on NBC and A. With Conan O’Brien having vacated this slot two weeks ago, Fallon now has just a few months to establish a following before O’Brien steals his thunder again, taking
If the voice narrating Shelley Saywell’s disturbing documentary Running Guns: A Journey Into The Small Arms Trade sounds familiar, it should. It belongs to Kiefer Sutherland, television’s freedom fighting vigilante, Jack Bauer.The 24 star was in Africa last summer shooting 24: Redemption, the two-hour TV-movie which aired last November, when he was contacted by Toronto-born
For the first time, Being Erica has slipped below the “More People Live in Brampton” threshold. Only 419,000 watched Wednesday night across Canada, another new low for the series. (The 2006 census pegged Brampton’s population at 433,806.)Worse, only 176,000 of those viewers were in the 25-54-year-old range.The rookie CBC fantasy drama has shed more than
Hurricane Hazel McCallion helped storm the Rick Mercer Report to a seasonal high, scoring 1,289,000 viewers last night. The 88-year-old Mississauga mayor was the latest Canadian icon to goose Mercer’s numbers, with both Nancy Green (1,262,000 in January) and Don Cherry (1,169,000 in November) also driving the weekly CBC comedy series to new heights.Getting a
What’s an ION? It used to be called the PAX network, showing reruns of peace loving shows like Touched By An Angel and Highway to Heaven. Soon, the U.S. cable network will be home to two gun-toting Canadian made productions: CBC’s The Border and Global’s The Guard.It’s taken a while for The Border to land
House is the one thing keeping the House that Izzy built in business. A new episode of the Fox import drew nearly 2.5 million Monday at 8, a nice robust score for the financially troubled Canwest network. Global’s Monday take included a strong return on 24 (1,243,000) and another weak outing at 10 for Heroes