Betty White’s new sitcom Hot in Cleveland was a hot pickup for CTV, drawing an overnight, estimated 1,819,000 viewers across Canada Monday. The sitcom, which also stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick, has been a big draw for TV Land in the States but so far has done even better, proportionally, in Canada.Monday’s
Oct. 16, 2008, a date marked on a score sheet, a magical night in Deer Lake, Newfoundland. At the centre of it was Bob Probert, who died Sunday at 45.Probert was the ex-NHLer, the draw in a charity hockey game between the local Deer Lake team and a rag tag bunch assembled to represent the
Holidays can be real momentum killers when it comes to launching a new show. Fortunately, Rookie Blue did not appear to take too much of a hit this Thursday, which was Canada Day. The Global cop opera (featuring Missy Peregrym, left) drew an overnight, estimated 1.4 million in its second outing, down from its strong
Today is July 1, Canada Day, which means it is also Pamela Anderson‘s 43rd birthday. That makes Pammy exactly 100 years younger than Canada. Parts of her are even younger. Hooray for Captain Spalding.Celebrate by reading my take on Canada’s favourite pasttime–watching American TV shows. Does anyone else find it depressing that the No. 1
A new reality dawns in Canada today, or Reality Channel at least. Canada Day brings the launch of the Global Reality Channel (channel 67 on Rogers in Toronto).The channel does not show a bunch of creditors lining up and getting 30 cents on the dollar from Jim Shaw. That’s another Global reality channel.This one features
Hiccups and Dan For Mayor got a bit of a bump each for their season finales Monday night. Hiccups drew an overnight, estimated 498,000 viewers across Canada and Dan For Mayor (starring Fred Ewanuick, right) pulled 516,000. CTV plans to slide new TV Land pickup Hot in Cleveland into the Monday at 8 slot next
I made a mental note to mark Gene Trindl’s passing a few weeks ago and was shocked to discover six years had gone by already–I thought it was five. The man who shot more TV Guide covers than anybody else was 80 when he passed away June 29, 2004 from pancreatic cancer.Trindl was a gentleman
Global’s long awaited cop show Rookie Blue (starring Missy Peregrym, left) blew out of the gate Thursday night, scoring an overnight estimated 1,811,000 viewers across Canada. That made it the No. 1 show in Canada on the night, beating lead-in Wipeout (1,271,000) and all comers on the other channels, including CTV’s timeslot rival So You