The Death March with Cocktails known as the Winter gathering of the Television Critics Association press tour is just about at an end. Some folks have stayed an extra day or two to get their pictures taken with the Sesame Street gang, meet Bob Newhart, George Takei and other Pioneers of Television and visit the
This week, Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s CHML had a few questions about the TV coverage of the passing of Nelson Mandela. Scott asks where this ranks on the big TV event scale. I think we’re in such a temporal age that I doubt we’ll be talking much about Mandela once the usual 48- or 72-hour
I’ve been on the road and hard to reach but finally caught up this week with my old pal Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s News Talk Leader, CHML. He reached me in Vancouver while I was visiting the set of When Calls The Heart, a turn-of-the-century Mountie drama coming in late winter/early spring to Super Channel.Scott,
This week, on SiriusXM’s Canada Talks with Arlene Bynon (Channel 167), the two of us go over the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. The broadcast was a big hit, drawing 17.63 million overnight viewers on CBS. That makes it the most watched Emmy Awards Stateside since 2005.In Canada, the awards were up just slightly on CTV,
For the past month I’ve been joining Arlene Byson on SiriusXM’s “Canada Talks” for a weekly chat about what’s new in television. This Monday, Arlene (right) wondered if groundbreaking shows such as Breaking Bad are chipping away at broadcast network ratings.There is no doubt that Walter White and Company have had an impact. One look at
There’s been lots to catch up on with CHML’s Scott Thompson the past couple of weeks. Scott asks first about Jimmy Kimmel and his latest pants-on-fire YouTube prank. The twerking girl on fire hoax (13.8 million YouTube views and counting!) was sheer genius, I say, but even more fascinating was the countless news reports Kimmel showed
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve spoken with CHML’s Scott Thompson. This week, we got caught up on the recent TCA summer 2013 press tour in Los Angeles and what was for me the highlight–my dinner with Jimmy Kimmel.Have to thank Neal Justin from the Minneapolis Star Tribune for pulling this caper together. Neal
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Nobody knows television like Mr. TV, Marc Berman. I’ve known Marc for years, shared a podium with him a while back at a BRC luncheon in Toronto and just generally rely on him, as many in the industry do, to break down the numbers and analyze how network shows perform.Marc posts a daily podcast