It didn’t take long for the old arrogance to seep back into the CTV ratings releases. “Wipe Out! CTV Wins Monday” crowed the latest. “Castle drowns Hawaii FIVE-0 with 1.8 million viewers.”All the networks have been spinning the numbers like crazy in the past week and a half. CTV certainly has plenty to crow about,
One man, two wives. The good news: he saved on insurance There’s plenty of whining on the Internet today about Fox making Lone Star the first cancellation of the season. Some are saying it is being punished for being different or being a serial drama or not having a big name lead. That everything else
Wondering what’s going down on The Good Wife this season? Julianna Margulies for one. At least that’s how it looked when I got a sneak peak at the racy opening scene during a visit last month to the Brooklyn, N.Y. set.We’ll find out if the provocative opener made the cut when the series returns tonight
Thought all the new shows had premiered already? A few more trickle in over this second week of the official Fall season, including this out-of-the-ordinary little hour from ABC: No Ordinary Family (8 p.m., ABC and CTV) Ever take a family vacation and come back feeling super? The Powells did. Dad Jim (Michael Chiklis from
There was a pretty significant TV anniversary over the weekend–50 years since the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debates. They were billed as “The Great Debates” when the first of four aired over three U.S. networks on Sept. 26, 1960. They were the first televised presidential debates and the opener is generally considered to have boosted then senator John F. Kennedy’s
Daddy-daughter Racers Gary & Mallory The Amazing Race continues to be an amazing story for CTV, racing back as Canada’s No. 1 Sunday show with close to 2.5 million viewers according to overnight estimates. That topped a big night at the private broadcaster, which squeezed in six shows between 6 p.m. and midnight—and saw all six
Never underestimate Tom Selleck. The 65-year-old (above, centre) showed he can still pull an audience—even on a Friday—with the strong debut of his new CBS series Blue Bloods. The New York-based cop drama drew an overnight, estimated 2,126,000 CTV viewers Friday night, making it the second most-watched 2010-11 series premiere over all, just 10,000 viewers
Tonight’s season two premiere of CBC’s Battle of the Blades is a bit of a free skate. There’s no actual competition, with tonight’s show more of an hour long introduction of the eight ex-NHLers and eight female figure skating champions taking part in this season’s competition. I had a sneak peak of the hour Friday