Wish I knew how to embed this here, but head over to The Huffington Post for a handy clip feature: a video roundup of the late-night jokes of the week. Follow this link straight to it. Clips from Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien are featured as well as David Letterman‘s “Great
I don’t know if any of you out there are old enough to remember TV newscasts. They used to have them on at suppertime and later at the end of the night just before you went to bed. This was way back before we started getting the daily news from comedians. Anyway, back when TV
Don Cherry, this week’s PR pissing war between CBC and Global and that over-hyped dud Gossip Girl (“No. 2 in its timeslot among girls 12-24 who wear knee socks and braces and face east”) are among the topics on this week’s radio rant with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen here. You can listen here
Reality television is one of those impossibly broad catch all phrases that gets stretched so thin it starts to lose its meaning. Quite often these days it stands simply for unscripted television. It generally has very little to do with reality.Case in point are two somewhat related yet very dissimilar shows launching in Canada in
The Canadian network spin war just lurched into overdrive. The Global PR department has answered yesterday’s CBC claim with a few numbers of their own.As pointed out here yesterday, CBC’s press release claiming it had surpassed Global this season in the ratings was true only if you accepted their very selective parameters of what constitutes
OMFG!!! Despite all the hype about the first new episode in months, and even after The CW shut down the web feed, Gossip Girl bombed again last night. The teen soap finished a distant 5th in the U.S. overnight ratings estimates with a 1.8 rating and a 3 share! OmigodOmigodOmigod!!!WTF??? Didn’t New York magazine just
David Letterman had a “Top 10 Signs President Bush Has Too Much Time On His Hands” after this occurred on Deal Or No Deal Monday night: Bush pre-taped the bit from The White House to give a shout out to a contestant who served three tours of duty in Iraq. For the record, that does
How far has mighty Global slipped this season? Try behind CBC in the overall ratings. Sorta.A release from the public broadcaster sent out via email in the last hour declared that “CBC-TV TRUMPS GLOBAL WITH PRIME-TIME SHARE OF 7.8.” Apparently this hasn’t happened since 1995 (and even that’s hard to believe, given Global had Friends,