Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Random House). In the introduction to Cue the Sun!, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Emily Nussbaum reveals that in 2003 she told a friend that she wanted to write a book about this new genre called ‘reality TV’. After all, Survivor was a smash hit.
Forget, for a moment, that many of us, if we’re watching broadcast at all so far this fall, have been binge-ing baseball, football or hockey. Set aside the fact that non-sports fans are finding their primetime fix on Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+, Prime Video or Paramount+. Disregard the utter chaos from the strikes that has left
Meet Derek Gottenbos and Jaspal Sidhu, YouTubers and friends from Richmond, B.C. They form one of the 10 teams competing on the 9th season of The Amazing Race Canada. The nation’s perennial No. 1 summer series returns July 4 on CTV. What else is happening on TV this month? Check out the latest brioux.tv calendar
Lisa LaFlamme’s abrupt departure continues to impact CTV’s National News ratings. The latest Numeris data report showing the Top-30 most-watched shows across English Canada is for the week of August 22 to 28 — the week after LaFlamme’s firing was announced. It shows that an average minute audience of 791,000 Total, Live+7 viewers watched an
The first full week of national network ratings are in following the firing of Lisa LaFlamme and they show a marginal drop in audience number estimates for the CTV National News. The network’s flagship 11 p.m. newscast drew an average of 879,000 viewers Monday through Sunday nights. That earned a 10th place finish the week
After a week off, the Aug. 9 episode of The Amazing Race Canada put that series back on top of the weekly Numeris Top-30 with over 1.6 million total viewers. The episode, which took place mainly in Alberta and British Columbia, featured kite gliding, skeet shooting and skiing. Also among the most-watched shows of the
With The Amazing Race Canada taking a week off after four straight weeks at No. 1, the title of most-watched show of the week in Canada (in broadcast) was up for grabs. Wouldn’t you know it — a day after the abrupt departure of CTV News chief anchor Lisa LaFlamme — it was a CTV
In its fourth week of Season Eight, The Amazing Race Canada held onto it’s lead in the weekly Numeris list of thee Top-30 most-watched shows across the country in terms of linear networks. Here is how the July 25 to 31 Top-10 fared according to confirmed program schedules and final audience data including 7-day playback,