As expected, Don Cherry helped boost the Rick Mercer Report back on top as CBC’s highest-rated non-hockey broadcast last week, drawing 1,169,000 viewers last Tuesday. In fact, if you add the other 815,000 who checked out Mercer’s Friday rebroadcast, the episode drew close to 2 million Canadians. A strong second at CBC was the surprisingly
Jack Bauer may be an international super agent, fearlessly throwing himself into any situation, but the guy telling him what to do wears a Toronto Maple Leaf cap.Jon Cassar, a native of Malta who grew up in Ottawa and is a graduate of that city’s Algonquin College, has directed “24” since it blasted its way
A visit from notorious clothes horse Don Cherry powered the Rick Mercer Report back over a million viewers Tuesday night. The Hockey Night in Canada icon took Mercer to his tailor and nearly doubled the comedian’s ratings from a repeat episode airing the week before, collaring 1,169,000 viewers according to BBM NMR overnight estimates. That’s
Boosted by the series debut of Grace Park as Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver, The Border jumped to 765,000 viewers across Canada Nov. 10. That made it CBC’s highest-rated off-ice series last week.Hockey Night in Canada, as usual, led all CBC programs with 1,366,000 viewers according to BBM NMR data. Following HNiC and The Border
A sobering chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson on the radio this week includes musings on the meltdown at Canwest Global (good thing CHML’s a Corus station), fear and panic overall in the television industry and–to change the subject–my new weekly radio spot across the border on Ohio’s WIMA. You can listen in here.Meanwhile, it sounds
This is probably as close as I’m going to get to be “living on the air in Cincinnati.” Starting today, I can be heard each Monday morning sometime between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. talking TV with Mike Miller on WIMA-AM News/Talk Radio out of Lima, Ohio.Why Lima? Dave Woodward, the program
When I called Rachel Griffiths a few weeks ago for the cover story running in Saturday’s Toronto Star Starweek magazine, I reached her on her cell. “Sorry,” she said, apologizing for not being on a land line. “I’m just coming from a class.”What kind of class, I asked. “I do a little tantric sex class,”
Have you seen Oprah lately? On Fridays?In an effort to reinvent itself, the dominant daytime talk show of the past two decades seems to have lost its focus. Why is mighty Oprah trying to be The View?That’s the impression I get watching Winfrey sit behind a large, white desk–something that looks like it was left