Overnight estimates for Saturday night’s nearly three hour live broadcast of The Tragically Hip’s end-of-tour performance in Kingston puts the average minute audience at 4,039,000. That’s an impressive number for a Saturday night in summer and should easily stand as the most-watched show of the week in Canada, outperforming CBC’s Olympic Games coverage. The Olympic
I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything that drew over 100 re-tweets before, but a rather simple observation is up around 155 “likes” Sunday morning (and incited about as many more unlikes from The Haters): Remarkable — any other broadcaster would have littered this showcase with promos and screen crawls #HipInKingston #CBCTheHip — Bill Brioux (@BillBriouxTV)
How high will The Hip go? I was asked that question on Twitter. It is one of those unique TV draws where there’s just no answer until the data comes in. CBC has promoted the hell out of their exclusive broadcast Saturday night of the very last concert by The Tragically Hip, broadcast live from
Headed out to Kim’s Convenience Tuesday but not for milk and bread. The comedy, premiering in October 4 on CBC, is shooting in Toronto on seven standing sets spread across two large sound stages. If you’ve been watching CBC’s Summer Olympic Games coverage, you’ve no doubt seen the promos for the series. “We really lucked
Since I was watching a lot of it anyway, The Canadian Press asked me to review the coverage — Canadian and American — of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games. The review went up on the wire Monday and you can read it here. There’s been much written so far about gaffes and political correctness
It wasn’t easy, but I managed to grab a little face time Thursday night on Bloomberg North. The specialty channel Bloomberg TV Canada, owned by Channel Zero (the folks behind CHCH), launched last November in Toronto (replacing a pickup of the American channel). Amanda Lang left CBC to be part of Bloomberg’s Canadian bench. Her Bloomberg North colleague
The good folks at CHCH’s Morning Live shuttled me off to Hamilton Thursday morning to yak about the upcoming fall TV season. The clip runs just under seven minutes and you can find it here. Host Bob Cowan asks about several of the new shows and producer Don Jonescu lines up apt clips from the following:
CTV’s gambit to blunt CBC’s Rio Summer Olympic Games coverage with their broadcast premiere of Game of Thrones is off to a bloody start. In Monday’s head-to-head matchup, CBC’s primetime Olympic coverage drew an overnight, estimated 2,021,000 viewers vs. the 667,000 who watched the very first episode of the sword-and-sandal fantasy epic. It was about the