What bearing, if any, will tonight’s Being Erica season finale number have on how many episodes will be ordered next season?Officials at CBC have already indicated that fewer episodes of the rookie fantasy/drama will be ordered for next season. That means fewer than the 13 that will have aired this year, although how many fewer
Today on News Talk Radio CHML, Scott Thompson wanted to get my take on last night’s Osbournes Reloaded fiasco, the story TVFMF broke about Barack Obama cleaning house at CBC and thoughts on our version of The Osbournes Reloaded, The Junos. You can listen in here.Beyond that, a long overdue honour was bestowed today on
In an aggressive effort to speed up the North American economic recovery, U.S. president Barack Obama today fired 553 CBC middle managers. The move takes effect at noon today.The White House said the drain on not just Canada but the world’s economy could no longer be tolerated. No evidence could be found that the middle
Trust Sharon Osbourne to tell it like it is.The driving force behind the Osbourne TV machine, Sharon was in L.A. earlier this year at a TV critics press tour party along with her rocker hubby Ozzy and Jack and Kelly, the two children they dragged before the cameras on their old reality show. (A third
Despite all the slash and burn scenarios coming out of CBC, Rick Mercer says he’s back next season with a full order of 19 shows.Met Mercer for drinks on the Danforth yesterday afternoon. The host of the Rick Mercer Report is coming off his best season ever in terms of ratings–averaging around a million viewers
The same old bands winning the same old awards took some of the fizz out of last night’s Juno Awards. CTV says they drew 1,227,000 on the overnight, estimated CTV “Total” scale; the BBM NMR commerical tally counted just 1,073,000 CTV viewers from 9-11. Either way that’s down from the 1,337,000 who tuned in last
Ay, carumba! Ditching The Simpsons, part of CBC’s slash and burn plan (as reported here in Variety), is a bad idea, man. As one former Canadian network executive (there’s been a lot of them lately) said to me recently, “The Simpsons have saved more Canadian networks than probably any other show.”Just this past Wednesday, The