Tonight at 8 p.m. on CBC, the winners on season two of Battle of the Blades will be chosen from among the three final pairs of contestants. Based on Sunday’s near flawless skate-offs, it’s a pick ’em finale between Shae-Lynn Bourne and Patrice Brisebois; Isabelle Brasseur and Todd Warriner (right); and Ekaterina Gordeeva and Valeri Bure.The
The No. 1 show by far this fall in Canada has been The Big Bang Theory. It tops three million viewers on CTV almost every week, last Thursday pulling 3.3 million viewers.So, if you’re CTV, what do you do now that Fox has moved American Idol to Wednesday and Thursday nights?Fox Announced Friday that Idol–re-booted
You have to wonder about a network that is trying to get Canadian viewers up off their couches and into a fitter, healthier lifestyle. If the message gets through and this campaign succeeds, nobody will be watching television!CTV would never touch “Live Right Now,” the healthy lifestyle, multi-platform winter and spring cause CBC unveiled today
Trust Jimmy Kimmel to get right to it. The late night talk show host always has the latest losers from Dancing with the Stars on Jimmy Kimmel Live the night after the elimination and he got right into it with Brandy and her dance partner Maksim Chmerovskiy. Did they get screwed out of the finals
The 25th Annual Gemini Awards got slammed into the boards Saturday against a powerful all-Canadian match up on Hockey Night in Canada. The Canadian television industry salute, which was hosted by Glee Canuck Cory Monteith, managed 363,000 Saturday night on Global plus another 34,000 on Showcase for a combined total that fell under the 400,000 mark. Saturday’s HNiC
Not everyone at the Wintergarden Theatre in Toronto was blown away by Cory Monteith’s job as host of the Gemini Awards Saturday night. One eye witness compared it to when an NFL quarterback hosts Saturday Night Live.Still, there was Monteith, loving the moment, getting his picture taken with Elvis Costello immediately after the show and posting it
Cory Monteith can relax. He survived his gig hosting Saturday night’s Gemini Awards in Toronto without any major hiccups. The same could not be said, however, for the rest of the Canadian TV industry salute. A sweet, unplugged set by Elvis Costello, Ron Sexsmith and Feist half way through Saturday night’s award-fest was both the high
The final gala for the Gemini Awards is tonight (8 p.m. on Global and Showcase). The annual industry wank fest takes place in the atmospheric Wintergarden Theatre in downtown Toronto. Elvis Costello, whose already canceled talk-‘n’jam series Spectacle is–whatdayathink?–the winner in the Best Canadian talk show category, will be rocking the joint.Cory Monteith (left) is the