My current favourite TV show ends it’s second season tonight: Only Murders in the Building (Hulu and Disney+ in Canada). I’m thrilled a third season has already been ordered and hope it hurries back as fast as the second season did. Here at the Brampton bunker, we watch every episode twice. Not because we missed
After a week off, the Aug. 9 episode of The Amazing Race Canada put that series back on top of the weekly Numeris Top-30 with over 1.6 million total viewers. The episode, which took place mainly in Alberta and British Columbia, featured kite gliding, skeet shooting and skiing. Also among the most-watched shows of the
This week’s episode of brioux.tv the podcast features the creator and original host of the Tonight Show, Steve Allen, plus the man who hosted from 1957 to 1962, Jack Paar. Allen, who died in 2000 at 78, was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1996. Here’s a clip from that event, including some
Bill Maher once said that, “Everybody who ever has done a talk show should pay a royalty to Steve Allen.” Allen would probably have agreed. He was the first host of NBC’s Tonight Show, starting with a local New York version in 1953 and then launching the series nationally in September of 1954. David Letterman,
Batter up! Tonight marks the third time the Toronto Blue Jays will be featured as part of Apple’s Friday Night Baseball doubleheader series. If you’re wondering, therefore, why they’re not on Sportsnet for an important series against the New York Yankees, it is because the game can only be watched tonight, starting at 7 p.m.
Is it possible that Lisa LaFlamme’s decision to go grey actually played a role, however minor, in her dismissal as CTV’s top news anchor? There’s so much buzz still about L’affair LaFlamme it defies the modern notion of 24-hour news cycles. Social media keeps on spinning tales of what may have motivated network executives to
As mentioned the the previous post, Numeris is going to stop sharing their weekly Top-30 broadcast ratings data lists in a few weeks. 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
With The Amazing Race Canada taking a week off after four straight weeks at No. 1, the title of most-watched show of the week in Canada (in broadcast) was up for grabs. Wouldn’t you know it — a day after the abrupt departure of CTV News chief anchor Lisa LaFlamme — it was a CTV