The full colour ad in yesterday’s Toronto Star showed Erica at the corner of Hope and 2nd Chance Streets. But how many second chances does one series get?Tuesday, Being Erica sunk to an overnight, estimated 362,000 viewers. Across Canada. Lone Star country.Yes, it’s a tough timeslot. Dancing with the Stars is huge Tuesday nights on
What if God was one of us Gleeks: Agron, Colfer and Rivera I guess I was looking for a miracle from Tuesday night’s extra spiritual episode of Glee. Executive producer Ryan Murphy has faith in himself, I’ll say that. Setting up his high school musical as a pop parable on modern day spirituality is a tall
Pearson gets Weird with Hartnett, Spencer and Lorette Wanna hear something weird? You don’t have to be a ‘tween to enjoy That’s So Weird. The YTV sketch series returns for a second season tonight at 6:30 p.m.Spoke with writer/showrunner Gary Pearson last week about the second season. Pearson is a seasoned comedy hand who has worked
Blades battlers Theo Fleury and Jamie Sale Mondays are so competitive in Canada, so hats off to Men with Brooms which cracked the half million mark the first night out. The CBC sitcom premiered to an overnight, estimated 582,000 viewers across Canada. It might have been higher if I hadn’t reviewed the second episode instead
Men–and women–without brooms Men With Brooms (Oct. 4, 8:30 p.m., CBC) Take an uneven Canadian feature film comedy about curling. Remove Leslie Neilsen. Keep Paul Gross as executive producer and narrator. Stock it with affable Canadian actors like Brendan Gall, William Vaughan and Joel Keller. Set it in small town Ontario. Aim and sweep.
Last hand: Connelly, Patterson, Cannell and Fillion Stephen J. Cannell was one of the icons of American television. The prolific writer/executive producer lost a battle with Melanoma Thursday at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69. Castle star Nathan Fillion spoke admiringly about Cannell during a visit to the set of the ABC series in 2009.
Over the years I’ve spent covering television I’ve only met a few genuine movie stars. One was Tony Curtis, who died Wednesday in Hollywood at 85. First time I met the man was way back in 1986, on one of my first TCA press tours. Curtis was at the Century Plaza hotel in Beverly Hills,
Glee boss Ryan Murphy between Britney and Brittany Glee emerged as the big Week Two winner in Tuesday’s Canadian TV ratings. The Fox phenom, which featured much music Tuesday night from Britney Spears, pulled an overnight, estimated 2,384,000 viewers at 8 p.m.CTV, as it aggressively declared in today’s press release, didn’t do bad opposite Glee with