Sick and tired of all the Letterman intrigue in late night already? Craig Ferguson and the Craigettes show they are ready to dance away from it all in Tuesday night’s gloriously silly MMMBop opener:
Holy crap–did everybody in Canada just suddenly decide to start watching television again? Those amazing Portable People Meters spiked ratings again Monday night with Global’s House tops overall with 3,407,000 viewers according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. Other biggies: CTV’s Dancing with the Stars performance show 2,148,000, CSI: Miami 2,251,000, CTV National News at 11
The new PPMs are boldly driving some specialty channel numbers straight into orbit. Space saw a huge liftoff for the brand new Stargate Universe which rocketed to 565,000 viewers Friday at 10 according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. That makes if Space’s highest-rated single episode of anything, ever.The shot-in-Vancouver space drama, which boasts Robert Carlyle,
Don’t kid yourself; David Letterman has the nerves of a burglar.There were moments on Monday night’s show where things started to lean a little, to borrow a word Letterman used last week, “hinky.”Like when young Lea Michelle from Glee showed Dave the tiny new tattoos on her feet and bragged about being the big risk
Fascinating how other comedians and late night talk show hosts have closed ranks around David Letterman. Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon ventured mild jokes on Friday but Conan O’Brien steered completely clear of Dave’s dilemma and so did a remarkably restrained Jimmy Kimmel.Monday night was The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart’s first chance to zing Letterman.
So that’s why you never see “Know Your Current Events” on Letterman anymore.Stephanie Birkitt,the 34-year-old former Late Show assistant whose diary entries were allegedly part of 48 Hours producer Robert Halderman’s extortion plot, used to be Letterman’s envelope girl on the Know Your Current Event comedy bits.When Late Show writer Bill Scheft was in Toronto
Just shy of two million Canadians watched Tie Domi and Bob Probert duke it out on Battle of the Blades Sunday night according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Those 1,959,000 CBC viewers tops even the 1.8 mil I predicted, a great start for the hockey-meets-figure-skating competition. The follow up results show and skate off between the
How many viewers watched CBC’s new Battle of the Blades Sunday night–one million? Two million? Somewhere in between?We’ll have the overnight estimates by late Monday afternoon but it would be surprising if it did not connect in a big way with Canadians, especially in these giddy early days of PPM data and exploding live event