I’ll be on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 today (at, yes, 5:30) with Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly to address the whole HBO into Canada debate currently wasting air up in Ottawa. The CRTC has been asked by the Canadian cable and satellite providers to allow them to offer HBO, Showtime, ESPN, Nickelodeon and other “forbidden
Like Michael Buble, The 2008 Junos had jump. CTV scored with their Sunday night Canadian music awards broadcast, drawing an average minute audience of 1,381,000 million viewers according to BBM NMR overnight estimates. In the seven years CTV has carried the event, that ranks second to the 2.18 million who tuned in in 2003 when
Viewers could be forgiven if they thought they had tuned in to Canadian Idol instead of The Juno Awards last night. All those nasty, unkempt indie bands like Arcade Fire were kept well away from the stage. Everything was neat and tidy, middle of the road to maximise the appeal to the biggest-possible Sunday night
The Farce was with the entire studio audience last night as CBC’s Air Farce Live signed off with their 15th season finale. Eleven more episodes next fall and the troupe will pack their sets, wigs and wardrobe trunks and shuffle off to TV history.The hour-long show ended with an extended and heartening standing ovation for
Tonight marks the season finale of Air Farce Live (CBC, 8 p.m.). The hour-long special will be a little more special tonight given the surprise announcement this week that the series is bowing out next New Year’s Eve after one more half season of 11 more episodes.I’ll be in the bleachers tonight and expect to
Don’t forget, tonight at 11:35 it is the 1000th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (on City-TV and ABC). Kimmel’s girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, and her lover, Matt Damon, were nice enough to take this ad out in Variety just to congratulate him. No ad yet from Ben Affleck. Kimmel has really beat the odds lasting five
The 1000th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (tomorrow night at 11:35 on City-TV and ABC) was the main topic today on TV Feeds My Family’s weekly chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson. (Listen in here.) Told Thompson I spoke with Kimmel yesterday in an oddly underpopulated ABC conference call with critics. Kimmel talked about his recent
Would that this were an April Fool’s joke: CBC has decided to wind down their long-running Friday night comedy showcase Air Farce Live.The series, which concludes its 15th season this coming Friday at 8, was previously listed among shows returning for next season. While that is still true, the buzz around the halls of CBC’s