CTV could score 10 million viewers Friday night with its coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games. Thanks to the new ratings ‘roids, these sports-mad Portable People Meters, and Sundays’ four hour Olympic Informercial-slash-Super Bowl broadcast–not to mention CTV’s nightly evening Olympic infomercials-slash-suppertime news hours, the Games are set to blow everything
CTV’s four hour Olympic Infomercial Sunday night was the most-watched Olympic infomercial ever. The network issued a release Monday stating it was also Canada’s most-watched Super Bowl broadcast.Goosed to crazy new heights thanks to those ratings ‘roids, the new BBM Canada Portable People Meter data, CTV says an overnight, estimated 6,025,000 Canadians watched the network
When 18 to Life first premiered in January, it just didn’t grab me. It seemed too forced, in the writing and the acting. There was some charm in young leads Stacey Farber and Michael Seater–they play 18-year-old neighbours who run off and get married–but their parents seemed to come out of some seen-it-before sitcom factory.I’d
Good news, Canada. In case you were stuck Sunday night watching that four hour Olympic infomercial on CTV, you can still check out all the U.S. network Super Bowl ads you missed. Just head over here to cbssports.com, where you`ll find all the ads broken down by quarter. (And, thanks, CBS, for not geo-blocking them
Hats off to CBS and the Late Show gang for sneaking this surprise, 15-second spot onto the Super Bowl broadcast. The ad–apparently all David Letterman‘s idea–was shot last Tuesday afternoon in New York, with Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey joining Letterman in his office at the Ed Sullivan Theater. As usual, Bill Carter at the
The big game is this weekend, which can mean only one thing–more hue and cry from Canadians about not being able to watch the Super Bowl ads.The ads are more hyped than the game, with 50-60 spots pitching soft drinks, cell phones and, of course, beer crammed into four hours of stop-and-start football. The game
As Rogers’ Sportsnet reports today, the new look Leafs’ Tuesday night win over the New Jersey Devils drew 866,000 viewers on Sportsnet Ontario, the second-highest regional broadcast in the network’s history. Only Phil Kessel’s debut as a Bud back in November outdrew that Sportsnet score with 893,000 tuning in. (All figures BBM Canada PPM 2+).
Murtz Jaffer (above right) is Reality Obsessed. So much so that he has his own show about his obsession. It’s in its second season and airs tonight at 7 p.m. ET on TVtropolis.The half hour series follows Jaffer as he attempts to face the same sorts of challenges that reality show contestants put themselves through–learning