Monday morning I’m down in Cupertino, Calif., for the announcement of the launch of Apple’s new streaming service. How will Apple’s “Netflix slayer” stack up, content-wise, with Amazon, Crave, CBS AllAccess and new services coming from Disney and Warner’s? And what are the implications for Canada? Check back later today for a full report.
Friday in Toronto, I had a one-on-one with the top dog from the new East Coast detective series Hudson & Rex — Diesel vom Burgimwald. That’s him in the above video, on the left. The magnificent two year old German Shepherd is trained by industry veteran Sherri Davis, who, have to admit, coached him through
Earlier this week I spoke with CHML’s afternoon host Scott Thompson about Disney’s US$71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox, an entertainment industry power move that took two years to finalize. Besides the movie division and access to films such as “Avatar,” “Titanic” and “Deadpool,” Fox’s TV holdings are vast and international. They include Twentieth
CTV’s new sitcom Jann launched Wednesday to 768,000 overnight estimated viewers across Canada. That’s a pretty decent score nowadays for a homegrown series with no simulcast support. Streaming and PVR data should easily send the Live+7 totals to 900,000+. The rest of CTV’s Wednesday night went like this: The Goldbergs at 8 p.m. (525,000) followed
The old rule used to be that it took four weeks for a new series to find it’s level. After three weeks, CBC’s reboot of it’s early ’90s law series Street Legal has gone 376,000, 341,000 and, this past Monday, 306,000 in overnight estimates. Will it bounce up in that important fourth week? Monday overall
For me, The Beatles’ 1964 classic “A Hard Day’s Night” is how I measure singer-songwriters and comedy chops. Take Ringo Starr for instance. Just turned 24 the month the film was released, the fab drummer steps in front of a camera and before you can say, “Act Naturally,” he does. He’s walking by a riverbank,
Sunday’s 2019 Juno Awards, live from London, Ont., drew an overnight, estimated 918,000 viewers on CBC. Sting and David Foster (above) added some geezer chic to the occasion. Despite it being a live show, look for that number to edge over a million viewers once the Live+7 totals are factored in. The two hour broadcast
If you’re going to steal from rich people, think big. That’s one of the take-always from HBO’s new documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.” It premieres Monday, March 18 on HBO and starts streaming the same day in Canada on Crave. It tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO