Tonight’s the night The Office moves to Winnipeg. Or, at least, Michael Scott and Andy Bernard are two of the lucky Dunder Mifflin employees off to the Manitoba capital in tonight’s episode of The Office (NBC, Global, 9 p.m.).Maybe while they are there they can stop by the Canwest Global headquarters and solve a few
Rumoured for weeks, the axe fell Wednesday at Canwest Global Communications. And it fell hard and sharp. It was announced that 560 jobs would be eliminated in the media company’s newspaper and broadcasting businesses. This after an estimated 200 had already been lost in the last few years. Read the Canadian Press report here and
This week on TV Talk with CHML’s Scott Thompson we touch on last night’s battle of the old farts: Sen. John McCain’s visit last night on Leno and Don Rickles performance on Letterman.Nice guy Jay surprised by asking some pretty direct questions, such as if McCain now wishes he had chosen a more economically-versed candidate
Suffering from post-election with drawl? Jay Leno has John McCain on tonight (11:35 p.m., NBC, A).Letterman gets snubbed again.No surprise McCain chose Leno over David Letterman to re-appear in public. After ditching Dave when the economy went south, the Arizona senator flamed out in that last, desperate, pre-election Letterman appearance. His well rehearsed “I screwed
Network ratings releases are like luncheon meat. Best to check the label and give it the ol’ sniff test before consuming.Still, CTV delivered a nasty one-two yesterday to the chin of an already staggering Global.The CTV release suggests the network has outperformed Global by 92% in the ratings so far this season. What’s more, those
David Letterman was on fire last night, all but taking a bow for the solid Democratic victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. “Listen, Senator,” he said to losing candidate John McCain, “you don’t show up for me, America doesn’t show up for you.” See Letterman’s entire monologue from last night below:McCain probably would have lost
He shoots, he scores: last week’s Rick Mercer Report topped all CBC prime time shows with 1,114,000 viewers, outdrawing even Saturday night staple Hockey Night in Canada (1,021,000).Other Oct. 27-Nov. 2 winners (according to BBM NMR overnight estimates): Dragon’s Den was up week-to-week (805,000), as was The Border (677,000), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (807,000),
The great American past time–the presidential election–finally drew to a close last night, not with bitterness or rancour or divisiveness, but with hope, dignity and reconciliation. Sen. John McCain, standing before hundreds on the lawns outside the Arizona Biltmore hotel, a grand edifice designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, passed the torch with grace and dignity