In terms of hours viewed all over the world on Netflix in the past 28 days, way out in front is the fourth season of Stranger Things. The series clocked 1,352,090,000 hours viewed in its first 28 days on the streaming platform. In Canada over the most recent one week period, the top draw was
For the past four seasons, Peter Mitchell has been doing Ryan Murphy-level duty. He’s the showrunner for the two primetime scripted Canadian series with by far the largest schedules: Murdoch Mysteries and Hudson & Rex. Murdoch, CBC’s historical whodunnit which returns for a 16th season next Monday, September 12, is currently in production in and
With new TV shows launching every week, 52 weeks a year, the idea of a robust fall launch seems more of a holdover from the TV Guide era. The broadcast networks, however, still like to kick off a new season every September with new and returning shows. Beyond that, there are some big titles, such
As mentioned previously, Numeris will soon stop sharing their weekly Top-30 lists of most-watched broadcast shows in Canada. The good news is, with more and more Canadian viewers switching to streaming services, weekly rankings for other services have started to emerge — and they represent the week just ended, not rankings compiled and shared nine
The first full week of national network ratings are in following the firing of Lisa LaFlamme and they show a marginal drop in audience number estimates for the CTV National News. The network’s flagship 11 p.m. newscast drew an average of 879,000 viewers Monday through Sunday nights. That earned a 10th place finish the week
As my ol’ Toronto Sun colleague Jim Slotek reminded me the other day, critics used to call Michael Landon, “Jesus of Malibu.” With his long flowing hair and decades of playing good guys (on Highway to Heaven, for example, he talked to God), Landon was a one-man, family-friendly, entertainment messiah. I felt very fortunate to
I kid you not: I was too young to have seen Jack Paar in his prime as host of The Tonight Show. I was born in 1957, the year Paar took over Tonight from Steve Allen and made it his own for the next five years. With the show starting around 11:15 p.m., this was
Attention anyone who remembers or is simply curious about the early days of television: don’t miss this sneak peek at “Kinecon at Cinecon.” The annual screening of rare kinescopes from the 1940’s and ’50s — the days before videotape — is part of Cinecon, the classic film festival held over the Labour Day weekend in