House remains strong medicine in Canada, scoring 2,307,000 viewers last night, 860,000 more viewers than CTV’s Criminal Minds (1,447,000).That’s almost twice what it pulls, proportionally, in the U.S., where it drew 12.66 million last night on Fox, losing in the timeslot to CBS’s older-skewing NCIS (17.24 million viewers).House‘s Canadian haul makes Tuesdays a tough night
The next two nights could bring the comedy highlights of the new TV season. No, not the return of Little Mosque on the Prairie and Sophie on CBC (starting tonight at 8 p.m.). I’m talking the federal leaders debate in French (8 p.m., Radio Canada) and, tomorrow night, in English (CBC, CTV–AND on Global, despite
CBC has to be quietly pleased with last night’s numbers for The Border: 560,000 total viewers across Canada. (Overnight estimated based on average minute audience, BBM Canada/Nielsen data.) That’s down slightly from last season’s average but better than many predicted up against first run episodes of U.S. hits on a very competitive Monday night.Consider what
Both the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes return tonight–and not a moment too soon.These elections play straight into the hands of both shows, although more for 22 Minutes (8:30, CBC) than Mercer (8 p.m.). At least according to Rick Mercer himself, who I chatted with at last week’s CBC season launch.
Paul Newman once said he drank a case of beer a day. “Count me in,” said David Letterman last night in a heartfelt tribute to the Academy Award-winning actor, race car driver and humanitarian.
How safe is The Border? We’ll find out tonight as The Border returns for a second season tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC. The Toronto-based series gained a strong foothold last winter when it was one of four scripted shows to join the CBC schedule opposite private network schedules weakened by the writers strike. It
Have to admit I was afraid to even watch season two of Californication (which returned last night and will be repeated this week on The Movie Network/Movie Central and Showtime). Not that I didn’t like season one–I loved it. I just worried that executive producer/creator Tom Kapinos put such a bow on it with that
Does gender play a role in how someone programs a TV network? It’s a question I put to the network programmings heads on both sides of the border in a story that appears in today’s Toronto Star. You can jump to the full story here, or, hell, better yet, buy a newspaper.The hook is that