Call it The Week The Women Went when Erica came on. Despite a massive promotional campaign, a new night didn’t add any bounce to Being Erica. The CBC fantasy/drama drew 531,000 last night, it’s smallest audience yet (according to BBM/NMR overnight estimates). Worse, only 194,000 of those viewers were in the 25-54-year-old demo.CBC made the
Who the heck is going to buy Canwest’s E stations, including my fave, Hamilton’s historic CHCH? News broke last week that the E’s were on the block. A few years ago, CTV and Canwest were throwing billions at TV properties. Now, well let’s just say it’s not a seller’s market.Hamilton Talk Radio’s Scott Thompson got
How did CBC do without Being Erica Monday night? The good news was that Little Mosque on the Prairie did a bit better than usual, up to 686,000 viewers according to BBM Canada Nielsen Media Research overnight “commercial” estimates. Sophie also “soared” to 268,000.The bad news was Being Erica’s replacement at 9, Just For Laughs,
The success story of the season, in the U.S. at least, has been The Mentalist. The CBS cop drama has drawn close to 20 million viewers some weeks this season and is the strongest rookie series performer in the U.S. since Lost and Desperate Housewives were instant hits in 2004.Warner Bros., the studio that produces
Lil’ Wayne did okay at The Grammys last night. But what about those Lil’ ratings?Global averaged 1,501,000 viewers over the three-and-a-half hour telecast, according to overnight “commercial” estimate from BBM Canada Nielsen Media Research.That’s a boost from their usual Sunday night numbers, and enough to win the night, especially in the younger demos. But hardly
Want to know how to work around geo-blocks in order to access TV shows when surfing the ‘net? I have a piece in today’s Toronto Star which addresses just that. You can read the full story here or, better yet, buy a newspaper!The main end-around answer for Canadian surfers looking to access U.S. sites such
Dave Waldon was a regular at press tour, sat up front during the sessions. Often wore a Cubs cap.News started to trickle in this week that he had died. Marc Berman at Mediweek made note of it online at his Programming Insider column. Other tour friends Anne Bannon and Glenn Garvin also paid tribute to
One thing you will not hear on tonight’s PBS salute to George Carlin is the seven dirty words you can’t say on television. Which is just fine, according to comic’s comic and Law & Order: SVU star Richard Belzer, who spoke with critics about George Carlin: The Mark Twain Prize last month at the TCA