More post-Super Bowl chat this week, including a salute to ol’ smoothies Al Michaels and John Madden. It’s all part of this week’s radio report with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen in here.Have to say it was nice to hear Michaels and Madden so energized about a big game. At 72, coach Madden still
CBC is yanking Being Erica out of Monday nights, and not a moment too soon. The five-week-old fantasy/drama drew a respectable 644,000 Monday at 9, with 285,000 of those viewers being in the 25-54-year-old demo. That’s up against some stiff competition, including Two and a Half Men on CTV (1,800,000/1,078,000) and 24 on Global (1,259,000/634,000).
I screwed up on the latest TV Feeds My Family Poll. I asked if Canadian viewers would miss those U.S. Super Bowl ads. With 93 responses, 70% of you said yes. Besides “yes” and “no,” however, what I should have also provided was a third response: “I didn’t miss them because I saw them–on the
The game was indeed super, especially if you were a Steelers fan. So how super were those Super Bowl numbers? Super in the States, sorta super in Canada.According to BBM/NMR overnight estimates, 3,602,000 tuned in to the game on CTV. Our numbers guys measure the game as occurring between 6:31 and 10:08 p.m. last night,
Tonight marks the 100th episode of House (8 p.m. on Global and Fox). Hugh Laurie and the rest of the stars and producers were trotted out before critics last month in Los Angeles on the press tour, where they promoting the milestone. Wrote about it for both The Canadian Press (read that story here) and
With David Letterman you really do get all the great late night TV talk show hosts rolled into one. In the early ’80s he started out all Steve Allen, smart and smart ass; somewhere around the time of Johnny Carson’s death he assumed the stature and gravitas of Carson, and, as he did on Friday’s
Tina Fey joked last year that being on a network TV show today was “like being in vaudeville in the ’60s.” Being in on the new media shows, on the other hand, is like being in television in the ’40s. It’s new and it’s cool.At least one reader of this site has already suggested that
This morning I watched a man put a giant hook through his nose, clamp cow bells to his eye lids and chew a light bulb to bits.No, it wasn’t Leonard Asper. It wasn`t even the Canwest programming executive who just ordered more episodes of Howie Do It. It was Ryan Stock, the 26-year-old daredevil host