“All’s Fair in Love and Cold War” reads ads for The Americans BROOKLYN, N.Y.–I’ve been deep undercover this week with The Americans.The Cold War spy series, starring Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, premieres Jan. 30 on FX and FX Canada. There are already bus shelter ads for the series all over Manhattan.The series shoots in
Did you know that PVR penetration is now up around 40% in Canada? Or that, despite that, 95% of all TV content in this country is still viewed “live”? Here’s another stat: high-definition viewing now counts for about 42.7% of the market share.These are three of the things I learned this morning at a breakfast
Purefoy and Bacon: hide the kiddies Way, way back last June, when all the 2012-2013 screeners arrived from the networks, many critics felt the mid-season entry The Following was the best of the bunch. That series premieres tonight at 9 p.m.The crime thriller is dark and gritty, with Kevin Bacon in the lead as a
Take that, puck haters. NHL hockey roared back Saturday as CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada enjoyed a record return. An overnight, estimated 3,317,000 viewers watched the Leafs defeat the Canadiens in the prime time 7 p.m. game, with 1,473,000 watching the afternoon tilt between the Winnipeg Jets and the victorious Ottawa Senators. Later, another 1,471,000
If, like me, you’re a fan of Ice Pilots NWT and those glorious old DC-3’s and -4s featured on that series, you’ll want to watch Air Aces. The series premiered a few weeks ago on the History specialty network in Canada and also airs Stateside on the Military Channel. New episodes air Monday nights at
Cast members applaud the creative team at the end of Friday’s taping VANCOUVER–Four-camera sitcom tapings can sometimes be a bit of an endurance test for studio audiences. You go in thinking you’ll whiz through a live taping of a half-hour sitcom. Five or six hours later, you swear you’ll never watch television again.This was definitely
VANCOUVER–Had an arresting conversation Friday with Jackson Davies, a.k.a. The Beachcombers’ Constable Constable.Jackson is promoting The Beachcombers at 40: Bruno and the Beach (Harbour Publishing, where else?). The book is written by series creator Marc Strange and Davies, who played Constable Constable from 1973–a year after the series debut–until it ended in 1990. He helped
The mighty Dr. Strangelove rocked the Roxy Thursday night VANCOUVER–These TV folks out here in Vancouver are at it morning, noon and nightclub.I’m in Vancouver as a guest of Rogers to interview the cast of Package Deal, a new three-camera comedy coming to City stations in the spring. Randal Edwards (The Killing), the one-and-only Harland