Paging David Hasselhoff: Believe it or not, there is footage posted on YouTube of somebody taking the suped-up Shelby Mustang KITT car from the new series Knight Rider for a joy ride in front of the Royal York hotel this afternoon. Check out the vis: What the hell??? As you can see, while the super
Was Wednesday Canadian Idol’s swan song? If so, it went out on a sour note.Take a look at how far this show has slipped in the last five years. A comparison of the five last finale numbers, from 2004 to 2008, shows a 50% drop from in households and a two-thirds drop in 18-49s.A great
The host kept hollering that it was the “biggest finale ever” but the numbers are in and guess what–it was the smallest.The two hour Canadian Idol finale didn’t even win its timeslot. It drew 1,377,000 viewers across Canada last night, a drop of one million viewers year-to-year. Despite headliners such as Mariah Carey, the finale
Damn this endless flood of September deadlines. Filed a story for CP today ranting about the current sorry state of elections and political manipulation on television. After I pressed send, I went upstairs, made lunch, and caught up with what I had PVR’d the night before, Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Late Show with
This will come as a shock to no one, but if I didn’t have to cover Canadian Idol this week for The Toronto Star, I probably wouldn’t have watched last night’s two hour finale. At this point, I pretty much have to be paid to do it. No disrespect to the participants or the producers
Take last week’s 90210 audience and divide it in half. That’s how many Canadians tuned in for Week Two of this series, which stars young Canadian Shenae Grimes.For a show with so much buzz, that is a huge drop week to week. In raw numbers, the series went from 1.3 million viewers to 664,000.What happened?
Do you have Canadian Idol fever? A sixth karaoke champ from the Canadian wilderness is being crowned tonight. The two-hour finale begins at 8 p.m. on CTV.Once Canada’s hottest show, Idol seems a bit off the radar this September. Gone are the full page ads CTV used to buy up in all the Toronto dailies.
That’s the question tonight as the new J.J. Abrams drama, Fringe, premieres at 8 p.m. on Fox and A Channel (and, for tonight only, CTV).While the sci-fi drama, starring Auzzie newcomer Anna Torv and Canadian Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), is one of the most anticipated new shows of the season, the reviews so far from