UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. –PBS opened this month’s press tour, but NBC grabbed the headlines. Not that the peacock network will welcome this kind of publicity. Law & Order: SVU star Richard Belzer, who was appearing before critics yesterday at a panel to promote an upcoming PBS salute to George Carlin, ripped his NBC bosses. He
The Canadian Junior Men’s team hockey victory at the World Junior Championships drew a whopping 3,692,000 viewers Monday night, blasting TSN to the top of the Canadian ratings.Rubbed out along the boards was the much-heralded debut of CBC’s Being Erica. Only 575,000 tuned in and only 201,000 25-54-year-olds, both less than The Border–already done for
The industry tabloid TelevisionWeek has just released its latest Winter Critics Poll results, with AMC’s Mad Men topping the list of favorite shows. The Emmy winner for Best Drama was the first basic cable show to score the top spot with critics. Get the rest of the best here.True Blood was named the Best New
It took a few days longer to count–the number was that high.An estimated 1,523,000 viewers across Canada tuned in New Year’s Eve to catch the final episode of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. That makes it the CBC’s single biggest entertainment programming draw of the season. It was the highest-rated program on any network in
There is a big, full page ad in today’s Toronto Star promoting tonight’s launch of Being Erica (9 p.m. on CBC). The network clearly sees this as their next breakthrough show. Having seen the first episode, it has the potential to be just that–or, as Rob Salem teased in a particularly punchy piece in last
It’s not such a Happy New Year over at Show Magazine. The final issue, featuring Kiefer Sutherland on the cover, is being delivered to Bell TV subscribers this month.That’s my cover story and you can read it at the SHOW site here. Personally, I’m really going to miss working with editor-in-chief Jennifer Warren and associate
Wrote a piece for The Canadian Press today suggesting five new shows worth checking out, all premiering this month. You can read the full article here.The list includes Being Erica, which starts Monday on CBC and stars Erin Karpluck as a 32-year-old woman whose life is falling apart. Then she meets a mysterious stranger who