Couldn’t miss the chill in the air at the Dave Kines MuchMusic farewell party Thursday night. Kines, one of the real good guys in the biz, was also one of the first to email a “WTF!?” when I was tossed at The Toronto Sun nearly two years ago.A prudent man, he soldiered on when CTV
These are good times to have a topical TV show. Election fever helped boost this season’s second episode of The Rick Mercer Report to 1,155,000 CBC viewers–a mighty leap from the week before.Ratings for the half-hour right after it–This Hour Has 22 Minutes–also shot up in Week Two, with 787,000 viewers tuning in. They caught
Week Two of CBC’s The Border saw a jump up to 704,000 viewers, a great sign on a crowded Monday night. The drama (featuring Graham Abbey and Nazneen Contractor, above) stayed competitive with A channel’s Two and a Half Men (853,000) and Global’s Heroes (1,194,000) and didn’t get run over by CTV’s two hour Dancing
Look who yanked that controversial Bill C-10 “morality clause” one week before Election Day (read the full story here). This is leadership, Mr. Harper? Anyway, congrats to the 41,822 members of the Facebook group “Keep Your censoring hands off of Canadian Film and TV! No to Bill C-10!” Democracy still works–who knew? And Canada Family
Nobody ever reports it. CTV buries it in what is otherwise another hyperventilating press release. Yet there it is: Degrassi The Next Generation continues to be one of the lowest ratings shows on Canadian television, drawing just 398,000 viewers for its eighth season premiere Sunday. In case you missed it, here’s a clip below:Eight seasons!
If your ears are ringing today, relax–you were at Sherri Woodstock last night. The lid was blown off Toronto’s Opera House on several occasions as six great bands pounded out song after song in a spirited salute to former Toronto Sun spark plug Sherri Wood, who lost her brave battle with brain cancer last March.Wood’s
More than 2.5 million Canadians watched last night’s federal leaders debate in Canada. The Fab Five Canuck leaders skunked Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in the Canadian ratings, especially in big cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, where Canada beat the States by at least a 3-1 margin.The score among the Canadian nets: CTV 1.03
This week’s federal leaders debate was a sweet gift to Air Farce Live. The Canadian comedy showcase returns for a 16th and final season tonight at 8 p.m. on CBC.Just ten more regular season episodes and then a New Year’s Eve special are planned as the Farce goes from us. CBC ordered the half season