The numbers are in! No, not THOSE numbers. I’m talking TV ratings, dammit.Like I haven’t already beat this to death, but, Degrassi continues to sink into the abyss at CTV. A record low 220,000 bothered to check out Sunday’s second episode of the new season, down a ton from the week before which was already
A colleague in the U.S. told me last press tour he no longer reads the Poynter Online “Romenesko” media site because it is too depressing. “It’s like reading the obituaries,” he said.Case in point: the email over the weekend from my friend Eric Kohanik, editor of TVTimes.Until Friday, that is. Kohanik (left, at last July’s
Not white turkey feathers, but some sort of ghostly fern framed by autumn’s blazing side show. Spotted at Hwy 26 and 6 at the north end of the Owen Sound by-pass around 5 p.m. this evening. Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
Sophie was up slightly in Week Two, to 395,000 CBC viewers. Maybe we can nudge that over the 400,000 mark next week thanks to my Canadian Press profile of beautiful brunette Natalie Brown. I spoke with her two weeks ago at the CBC fall launch and back in June at the CBC upfront and was
This won’t be up at YouTube for long: Check out the U.S. season premiere episode of South Park, where Steven Spielberg and George Lucas rape Indiana Jones: Clearly Trey Parker and Matt Stone don’t want to see an Indy 5. South Park and the Indiana Jones movie franchise are all part of the big happy
Couldn’t miss the chill in the air at the Dave Kines MuchMusic farewell party Thursday night. Kines, one of the real good guys in the biz, was also one of the first to email a “WTF!?” when I was tossed at The Toronto Sun nearly two years ago.A prudent man, he soldiered on when CTV
These are good times to have a topical TV show. Election fever helped boost this season’s second episode of The Rick Mercer Report to 1,155,000 CBC viewers–a mighty leap from the week before.Ratings for the half-hour right after it–This Hour Has 22 Minutes–also shot up in Week Two, with 787,000 viewers tuning in. They caught
Week Two of CBC’s The Border saw a jump up to 704,000 viewers, a great sign on a crowded Monday night. The drama (featuring Graham Abbey and Nazneen Contractor, above) stayed competitive with A channel’s Two and a Half Men (853,000) and Global’s Heroes (1,194,000) and didn’t get run over by CTV’s two hour Dancing